Combatants at Grimsley deserve tough penalties
I am a student at Grimsley High School, and I was there when the fight of Dec. 14 took place. I feel that every student who was mainly involved in the fight should have gotten major consequences.
That day none of those students who got off that bus was coming to school to learn. They were there to do one thing and one thing only, to fight. That fight was unnecessary. The school had a pep rally and the fight ruined it for everyone.
People say that it's not fair for all of those students to have to lose their education, but I don't think it's fair for all of the students who weren't involved in the fight to have to be punished.
We get put on lockdown, no more regular lunch, and education will never be the same at Grimsley High School.
Marcus Davis
Greensboro
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"That day none of those students who got off that bus ~was~ coming to school to learn. They were there to do one thing and one thing only, to fight. That fight was unnecessary. The school had a pep rally and the fight ruined it for everyone."
IMO, if the school used pep rally time to focus on teaching grammar the students would learn to speak and write verb tenses correctly.
Posted on February 29, 2008 8:23 AM
Gang fight'in non educated socially challanged nappy headed punky trashy kids . . .
I tire of this subject.
. . . MY civil rights are being violated . . .
Posted on February 29, 2008 9:02 AM
the subject in the sentence is 'none' so its a tough call since none is a singular noun... 'none' in this context really infers 'none of them' or 'not any of them' ... i agree that using 'were' instead of 'was' sounds better, but I am wondering if both are correct in the context of this sentence.
in any case i believe that Marcus deserves a standing O for the guts it took to write, verb tense not withstanding, but I also fear for his safety now.
GHS has two basketball teams that are progressing nicely in the playoffs and the girls could bring back a state championship....nonetheless, a pep rally at the end of a day during different seasons of athletics to recognize our athletes and bring everyone together under one banner of unity is a good, nay, GREAT THING.
GHS is fast becoming, or maybe already is an inner city school, and to bring it back as the GREAT school it once was will only be achieved with unity...the truth is there are several reasons it is in a downturn and not the least of which would be the 'thug mentality' that has creeped in from the demographics of the public housing projects that feed into GHS.
If the larger community can come together to turn around 'thugdom', then GHS will benefit...
in the meantime, my advice is that if you can afford to keep your children out of GHS, that would be a good investment and a good decision.
Key adminstrators and key teachers and key staff have departed or resigned and the new principal Kevin Fleming who came in as a package deal with his wife who was hired for a key position downtown in GCS has stepped into a situation that is not a good fit for him and he appears lost and directionless, and well, not interested, possibly just here for this year and gone the next...
GCS was unable to find the best suited fit for GHS so in order to attract anyone they did what they had to do and attracted Fleming and his wife to Greensboro in an act of desperation.
there will be more years forthcoming of desperation at GHS until the correct leadership is put in place.
In the meantime, the best solution is to install as many resource officers as possible to maintain daily safety...and to watch out for the great kids like Marcus.
Posted on February 29, 2008 9:12 AM
Just think of this incident as being exposed to 'real life' conditions via government run schools, Marcus.
Posted on February 29, 2008 9:55 AM
There is a response to the News-Record Editorial on Feb 4 in today's paper by 2 legal aid attorneys stating their belief that the suspensions and conclusions were unfair.
It claims the parents knew of the problem before sending their kids to school that day. Then why were they sent?
Also, if the statement that school and other officials made mistakes, why would you NOT want your kids to go to SCALES alternative school, since I would assume there will be more resource officers there to protect them. Maybe we should get a report on the discipline problems from the SCALES principal.
Posted on February 29, 2008 3:38 PM