Terry Seems Exasperated

Looks like all the talk and media coverage about all of this violence is finally getting to Terry and he is ready to do something about it.

What, I don't know.

"If you expel all these children, they will be on the street or in the High Point jail."

So. If they really wanted to learn and be in school, that's where they would be. They wouldn't be fighting, cussing the teachers, throwing erasers at the teachers and being generally disruptive to the whole process.

"But they have a right to be in school in North Carolina."

Yes they do. And my child also has a right to be in school. In a SAFE, SUPERVISED, LEARNING ENVIRONMENT. That is not the case at Andrews High School at the present time. Especially when you have a hint of violence and 200 students leave campus.

Then, when there is a fight and the police are called, all you want to do is criticize the police for responding and taking care of the problem. You say they send too many cars? Six cars equals what? Six or at the most eight officers? I don't think that's too many when you have probably 400 students in the school and the possibility exists that the fight could escalate into something much worse than two or three kids fighting. Especially when you say that outside interference from the community was responsible for some of these fights.

Now the specialized programs at Bennett College, A&T, and Greensboro College.

I commend you for setting up these programs in Greensboro and hope they are working for you.

What I would like to know is while you were setting these programs up in Greensboro, WHY you left High Point out?? Did they not have a problem then or were they just put on the backburner like they have been so many times since the "school merger"? Or were you just too busy with your High Point Lottery or bus hub planning? Or were you just going to wait until the parents and the community said, "We've had enough of this shit!", before you did anything about it?

Seems like you dropped the ball on that one, Terry.

"The solution is education".

This may be Terry. One last question though. When 66% of these kids have parents or guardians at home teaching them not to let anyone "mess with them" or "push them around", what are you going to do? Make the parents come to school too?