New Katrina students involved in High School fight

[spongebob]

Teenagers are picked on and fights happen at every high school in the country. Why was a thread created for this??

no this fight is not just like any other fight in every high school in the country. its not about the fight, its about the reason. even the students parents got into it. there is a social story behind it.

 

[spongebob]

Ha ha ha!

I bet these new ghetto students were placed into some middle class suburbia school by some evil bureacrat who just wants to be amused ... and well, i'm sure he/she isn't disappointed :

Katrina evacuees involved in Texas school fight

http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/09/14/school.fight.ap/index.html

HOUSTON, Texas (AP) -- A fight between a group of displaced New Orleans students and their new classmates at a Houston high school ended with three teenagers hospitalized and five under arrest Tuesday.

The morning fight at Jones High School started after a student from Houston threw a soft drink can into a group of New Orleans students, a school district spokesman said.

One student from New Orleans was treated for facial injuries, and two Houston teens were treated for face and rib injuries. In all, 20 to 25 students got involved.

Terry Abbott, a spokesman for the Houston Independent School District, said that sort of behavior would not be tolerated.

"The quickest way to earn a ticket out of Jones High School and into detention is to hurt one of those students from New Orleans," Abbott told the Houston Chronicle.

"They've made it very clear to the Jones High School students that the children from New Orleans are our guests. We must treat them with all the dignity and respect we can."

About 200 students who were evacuated from New Orleans because of the hurricane are attending Jones High School.

Two New Orleans students and three Houston students, all of them boys ages 15 to 18, were charged with disruption of school activities, a misdemeanor, officials said. Abbott said all five would be placed at disciplinary alternative schools.

Copyright 2005 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.

no i dont think it was a middle class suburbian school. did you see the video showing the parents wanting to fight?

the nation of islam has stepped in to arbitrate and said the issues will be resolved.

 

[pintoca]

Did anyone miss the part about the fight being started by a Houston student who through a coke can at the N.O. students?

I'm trying to find the rationale behind the posts

Still haven't found what I'm looking for

 

[nycgirl]

I'm trying to find the rationale behind the posts
Still haven't found what I'm looking for

He missed the point about the fight being started by the other students. The point I was trying to make was that article doesn't say anything (AP wire articles never do), so how can he assume anything about the situation. If he saw it on the news (like spoongebob) and/or had more information then fine. But he didn't. That article doesn't say anything.

 

[rudeboyja]

Did anyone miss the part about the fight being started by a Houston student who through a coke can at the N.O. students?

That's what I was thinking. Probably easily could have been avoided if some dude wasn't trying to show off in front of his boyfriends.

 

[Breeze]

"with three teenagers hospitalized and five under arrest Tuesday"

Read-above: This was not just a simple little high school fight. This was a full-on violent brawl. Police were called. Ambulances were called. People were arrested. People went to hospitals.

Only the introduction of ghetto trash can start introducing stuff that is quite common-place and the norm in inner-city schools in suburbia.

Soon this school will have metal detectors.

The placement of Katrina refugees will soon be met with a "Not in my backyard" from the middle-class.

Here's another "Not in my backyard scenario". I understand that a camp is being set up for refugees near Harrison, Arkansas, which is nearly 100% white AND home of the national headquarters of the Ku Klux Klan. I bet whoever arranged this did not do it by accident.

 

[WolfPack Charlie]

I bet George Bush was hiding behind a big oak tree in the quad, threw the can himself and then retreated to watch the hilarity that insued!

 

[canadianhitman]

the nation of islam has stepped in to arbitrate and said the issues will be resolved.

Speaking of people who need a beat-down...

 

[_Yossarian_]

I bet George Bush was hiding behind a big oak tree in the quad, threw the can himself and then retreated to watch the hilarity that insued!

I knew this was somehow bush's fault!

 

[wutangnomo]

Dude you're an idiot. The fight was started by the Houston kids, not the New Orleans boys. They were simply defending themselves.