Tyrone N. Butts
APE Reporter
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School locked down over fights
Students at Ribault High School in North Jacksonville weren't allowed to leave class for the last two hours of school Friday after fights broke out shortly after lunchtime.
Three of six students who participated in two fights were arrested and charged, said Sheriff's Office spokesman Ken Jefferson.
Dozens of students witnessed the fights.
"During the melee, there were approximately 70 students that were gathered around cheering, taunting, that sort of thing," Jefferson said.
Duval County School Board spokeswoman
Marsha Oliver said administrators were still investigating and had not yet decided on disciplinary action.
Jefferson said the incident began in the cafeteria shortly after noon when a group of stu
dent
s was involved in an informal rap contest. One student accident
ally bumped another, and the student who was bumped threatened to retaliate, Jefferson said.
The two fights occurred soon after in the breezeway of the C wing. The school resource officer and security guards broke up the altercations and called police to the scene. ...
JEAN RIBAULT HIGH SCHOOL - Jacksonville, FL
City: Jacksonville, FL
Address: 3701 Winton Dr
District: Duval
Phone: (904)924-3092
Web site: http://www.educationcentral.org/rhs/
School Enrollment: 1565
White students: 4.4%
Black students: 94.8%
Hispanic s
tudents: .3%
Asian students: .1%
Native American students: .1%
Multi-racial/other students: .3%
Female students: 48.8%
Male students: 51.2%
Class dismissed: School suspends 136 sixth-graders
OKLAHOMA CITY - All but 11 of the 147 sixth-
graders at an Oklahoma City public school were suspended this week after a lunchtime cafeteria ruckus and disruptive classroom behavior.
Sixteen sixth-graders at F.D. Moon Academy were suspended Monday for class disruptions. An additional 120 students were suspended Wednesday after they picked up cafeteria tables, slammed them to the floor and talked back to teachers and administrators who were trying to resolve a dispute, school officials said.
After school Wednesday students also trashed a teacher's classroom, according to assistant principal Tommy Smith.
Smith told a parents meeting Wednesday nig
ht that he had entered the cafeteria to find students throwing the tables and using inappropriate language.
"We usually call it the "B word,' but I'm just going t
o say it
. Three different ki
ds today called their teacher a b----," he said.
Principal Elaine Ford estimated teachers spend 85 percent of their time reprimanding students at the school, a magnet program for
mass media communications and technology.
"I wish you could be a fly on the wall because some of the time you'd be shocked at what your child is doing," Ford told the parents meeting.
Students whose parents met with school officials were allowed to return to class Thursday and Friday, city schools spokeswoman Sherry Fair said.
The suspended students will be required to do volunteer work at the school today. If students fail to show up, Ford said, she will arrange for more community service for those students.
Jarona Knight, whose daughter was suspended, sa
id after the meeting that she wasn't surprised by the students' behavior because some parents in the audience were yelling while school officials talked.
"If
we don't
get involved, I don't k
now who will," Knight said.
This wasn't the first large-scale suspension at the school. Last year, more than 50 students were suspended after a food fight in the cafeteria, Fair said.
Statistics for F. D. Moon Academy/mass Media
School District: Oklahoma City
County: Oklahoma
Low Grade: 06
High Grade: 08
Locale: Large Central City
Charter: No
Magnet: No
Title 1 School: Yes
Title 1 School Wide: Yes
Number of Students: 509
Number of Teachers: 37.40
Teacher to Student Percent: 13.60
Male: 290
Female: 219
Native American: 5
Asian: 0
Black: 494
Hispanic: 5
White: 5
Number of Students Receiving Free Lunch: 446
Number of Stude
nts Receiving Reduced Lunch: 18
Migrant Students: 0
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My niggaz never fail to live up to my expectations.
T.N.B.
School locked down over fights
Students at Ribault High School in North Jacksonville weren't allowed to leave class for the last two hours of school Friday after fights broke out shortly after lunchtime.
Three of six students who participated in two fights were arrested and charged, said Sheriff's Office spokesman Ken Jefferson.
Dozens of students witnessed the fights.
"During the melee, there were approximately 70 students that were gathered around cheering, taunting, that sort of thing," Jefferson said.
Duval County School Board spokeswoman
Marsha Oliver said administrators were still investigating and had not yet decided on disciplinary action.
Jefferson said the incident began in the cafeteria shortly after noon when a group of stu
dent
s was involved in an informal rap contest. One student accident
ally bumped another, and the student who was bumped threatened to retaliate, Jefferson said.
The two fights occurred soon after in the breezeway of the C wing. The school resource officer and security guards broke up the altercations and called police to the scene. ...
JEAN RIBAULT HIGH SCHOOL - Jacksonville, FL
City: Jacksonville, FL
Address: 3701 Winton Dr
District: Duval
Phone: (904)924-3092
Web site: http://www.educationcentral.org/rhs/
School Enrollment: 1565
White students: 4.4%
Black students: 94.8%
Hispanic s
tudents: .3%
Asian students: .1%
Native American students: .1%
Multi-racial/other students: .3%
Female students: 48.8%
Male students: 51.2%
Class dismissed: School suspends 136 sixth-graders
OKLAHOMA CITY - All but 11 of the 147 sixth-
graders at an Oklahoma City public school were suspended this week after a lunchtime cafeteria ruckus and disruptive classroom behavior.
Sixteen sixth-graders at F.D. Moon Academy were suspended Monday for class disruptions. An additional 120 students were suspended Wednesday after they picked up cafeteria tables, slammed them to the floor and talked back to teachers and administrators who were trying to resolve a dispute, school officials said.
After school Wednesday students also trashed a teacher's classroom, according to assistant principal Tommy Smith.
Smith told a parents meeting Wednesday nig
ht that he had entered the cafeteria to find students throwing the tables and using inappropriate language.
"We usually call it the "B word,' but I'm just going t
o say it
. Three different ki
ds today called their teacher a b----," he said.
Principal Elaine Ford estimated teachers spend 85 percent of their time reprimanding students at the school, a magnet program for
mass media communications and technology.
"I wish you could be a fly on the wall because some of the time you'd be shocked at what your child is doing," Ford told the parents meeting.
Students whose parents met with school officials were allowed to return to class Thursday and Friday, city schools spokeswoman Sherry Fair said.
The suspended students will be required to do volunteer work at the school today. If students fail to show up, Ford said, she will arrange for more community service for those students.
Jarona Knight, whose daughter was suspended, sa
id after the meeting that she wasn't surprised by the students' behavior because some parents in the audience were yelling while school officials talked.
"If
we don't
get involved, I don't k
now who will," Knight said.
This wasn't the first large-scale suspension at the school. Last year, more than 50 students were suspended after a food fight in the cafeteria, Fair said.
Statistics for F. D. Moon Academy/mass Media
School District: Oklahoma City
County: Oklahoma
Low Grade: 06
High Grade: 08
Locale: Large Central City
Charter: No
Magnet: No
Title 1 School: Yes
Title 1 School Wide: Yes
Number of Students: 509
Number of Teachers: 37.40
Teacher to Student Percent: 13.60
Male: 290
Female: 219
Native American: 5
Asian: 0
Black: 494
Hispanic: 5
White: 5
Number of Students Receiving Free Lunch: 446
Number of Stude
nts Receiving Reduced Lunch: 18
Migrant Students: 0
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My niggaz never fail to live up to my expectations.
T.N.B.