Focusonthed Member Username: Focusonthed
Post Number: 1396 Registered: 02-2006
| Posted on Thursday, October 25, 2007 - 4:36 pm: | |
http://freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll /article?AID=/20071025/NEWS02/ 71025039
quote:Four students were arrested at Highland Park High School this morning after as many as 200 students were involved in a fight out on the school's football field, said Greg Byndrian, school public information officer. About 1,000 students were sent out to the athletic fields following a 9 a.m. bomb threat. The bomb threat was cleared but a fight broke out between Highland Park students and a group of more than 250 new students from South Shore Education Center, a school in Harper Woods that closed just days after it opened. Hmm...gangs? Incidentally, how bad would it suck if you were going to (what I assume is) a charter school in Harper Woods, and on the first day, got bussed to Highland Park Public Schools instead? Oops! |
Irish_mafia Member Username: Irish_mafia
Post Number: 1080 Registered: 10-2003
| Posted on Thursday, October 25, 2007 - 4:43 pm: | |
Me thinks that South Shore would be closer to a school for delinquents that didn't have the right funding... Harper Woods parents that are going to the trouble of getting their kid into a charter school aren't going to sit back and watch them get carted off to Highland Park...are they? |
Iheartthed Member Username: Iheartthed
Post Number: 1990 Registered: 04-2006
| Posted on Thursday, October 25, 2007 - 4:48 pm: | |
Actually, isn't South Shore that school that was run by a church and got put out of there building? I remember this story in the newspaper from a couple months ago where their students were haviing trouble with the HPHS students. |
Focusonthed Member Username: Focusonthed
Post Number: 1398 Registered: 02-2006
| Posted on Thursday, October 25, 2007 - 4:49 pm: | |
I have no idea, but you're probably closer to right than me. |
Gnome Member Username: Gnome
Post Number: 254 Registered: 08-2007
| Posted on Thursday, October 25, 2007 - 4:51 pm: | |
A depressing story about a Detoit pastor who opened South Shore Academy ... (((shakes head))) http://www.detnews.com/apps/pb cs.dll/article?AID=/20071013/S CHOOLS/710130324/1026&imw=Y |
Focusonthed Member Username: Focusonthed
Post Number: 1399 Registered: 02-2006
| Posted on Thursday, October 25, 2007 - 4:58 pm: | |
Holy crap. What a shady character.
quote:"But I'm confident that when the storm has passed, South Shore will survive and the vision of creating a Cranbrook on the east side of Detroit will once again be realized" Hahaha. |
Irish_mafia Member Username: Irish_mafia
Post Number: 1081 Registered: 10-2003
| Posted on Thursday, October 25, 2007 - 5:06 pm: | |
I wondered why Beacon Acadamy was shut down. He's a Shyster! |
Barnesfoto Member Username: Barnesfoto
Post Number: 4347 Registered: 10-2003
| Posted on Thursday, October 25, 2007 - 5:25 pm: | |
Hallaluhjia! See, Education does not have to be a non-profit enterprise! The lord helps those who help themselves, like the good Reverand, who helped himself to the funds! |
Raptor56 Member Username: Raptor56
Post Number: 139 Registered: 05-2007
| Posted on Thursday, October 25, 2007 - 5:54 pm: | |
Cranbrook of the East? lol! Since when did Harper Woods suddenly rise to the status of Bloomfield Hills? I know they tried to become a Grosse Pointe a couple years ago, but come on... |
Charlottepaul Member Username: Charlottepaul
Post Number: 1862 Registered: 10-2006
| Posted on Thursday, October 25, 2007 - 5:57 pm: | |
"a fight broke out between Highland Park students and a group of more than 250 new students from South Shore Education Center, a school in Harper Woods that closed just days after it opened." The way that different school systems (districts) are set up in Michigan is soooooo goof ass. |
Focusonthed Member Username: Focusonthed
Post Number: 1401 Registered: 02-2006
| Posted on Thursday, October 25, 2007 - 7:36 pm: | |
^^Not sure what you're referring to, but it's probably moot anyway, because South Shore Education Center was not a public school (or any kind of school for that matter, apparently) |
Lowell Board Administrator Username: Lowell
Post Number: 4272 Registered: 10-2003
| Posted on Friday, October 26, 2007 - 1:51 am: | |
Seems to me the real story is why these poor 'refugee' kids are getting shunted around. I am guessing that discontent arose about having a sudden huge influx of non-local strangers flung into their school. All hail the privatization of mandatory education. |
Perfectgentleman Member Username: Perfectgentleman
Post Number: 4357 Registered: 03-2006
| Posted on Friday, October 26, 2007 - 1:57 am: | |
Yep, All public schools are flawless and every private school is a dismal failure. |
Gistok Member Username: Gistok
Post Number: 5571 Registered: 08-2004
| Posted on Friday, October 26, 2007 - 2:28 am: | |
Looks like Engler didn't do his homework (no pun intended) when he got the charter school laws passed. This scenario should never have been allowed to happened. |
Danny Member Username: Danny
Post Number: 6725 Registered: 02-2004
| Posted on Friday, October 26, 2007 - 8:17 am: | |
That school fight was a battle for Public Schools vs EVIL Charter Schools. But mostly the students from H.P.H.S. probably staged a fake bomb threat to get the former EVIL Charter School Students into a fight so that they could be feared and maybe leave the school. |
Viziondetroit Member Username: Viziondetroit
Post Number: 1254 Registered: 11-2003
| Posted on Friday, October 26, 2007 - 8:19 am: | |
^ that's a reach |