Damn...you guys need to relocate...

Out here in good ole' Perkiomenville their still trying to figure out the
knife thing...it could ages until we progress past the bow and arrow thing.

Mike

"Willi" wrote in message
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Scott Seidman wrote:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/01/06/nyregion/06SCHO.html

My high school, South Shore, is listed as one of a dozen in the city
violent enough to merit police patrols!

Scott

From my perspective, things haven't changed since I was in high school.
We had National Guard troops deployed on and off at my high school for
two years with local police officers present for the whole time. We
entered the school walking by about 50 troops lining the sidewalk. We
has to hold a picture ID next to our faces, which was checked before we
could enter. There were rotating TV cameras at the intersection of every
hallway, that were monitored in a room that "Command Central" had
appropriated.

The "action" almost always started in the lunchroom. Someone would throw
some food then it would be plates and trays and finally chairs. This
would cause the student body to start racing around in the hallways and
ended with everyone milling around on the street in segregated groups.
All this was documented by the omnipresent TV crews. My uncle called me
from California to tell me that he saw me on TV running out of the school.

Although there were fights, no weapons were ever involved and there were
no serious injuries.

My other disruptive high school experience was when I taught high school
in Charleston West Virginia for ONE semester. These were "textbook
riots". The local religious organizations decided that the high school
text were "pornographic." There were demonstrations, the Klan came
around and there were frequent bomb threats. During the Spring, I spent
more time outside on the grounds instead of in the class because of the
bomb scares. Again, no ever got seriously hurt.


Willi