North Carolina High School Brawl - Student Killed

[George K]

https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/north-carolina/articles/2023-11-27/1-student-killed-1-hospitalized-in-stabbing-at-north-carolina-high-school

[Jolly]

Welcome to the way young black men fight.

And no, if you've been involved in some of that, that wasn't a racist statement, just a factual one.

[89th]

Before I opened this thread I knew exactly what the scene was going to look and sound like. Did not disappoint.

Sad, really.

[Mik]

Animals.

[jon-nyc]

I looked it up. It’s a “magnet” school. But it scores only 50% at level in reading and 24% at level in math.

So I have to ask - magnet for what?

By the way I’m heading to Raleigh in the morning. Duke tomorrow and some pharma meetings Thursday and Friday.

[89th]

@Mik said in North Carolina High School Brawl - Student Killed:

Animals.

You know, when they entered the gym, I actually thought "this sounds like a pack of animals".

[Jolly]

@jon-nyc said in North Carolina High School Brawl - Student Killed:

I looked it up. It’s a “magnet” school. But it scores only 50% at level in reading and 24% at level in math.

So I have to ask - magnet for what?

By the way I’m heading to Raleigh in the morning. Duke tomorrow and some pharma meetings Thursday and Friday.

Shit magnet?

[Copper]

democrats

[Jolly]

True story...

My daughter taught at inner city schools for fourteen years. If you can get one of those kids through high school, doing high school level work, it's a minor miracle. The teachers remember those kids.

Dontavious (not his real name) was not the smartest kid in the class, but he was a unicorn...He came from a two-parent family. They might have been poor, but they cared. So Dontavious worked hard to overcome his deficiencies. He never made an A, and very few B's ever appeared on his report card. And my daughter tutored him in math for many years in an after school program.

But Dontavious was going to make it. No, he'd never go to college, but he'd get an honest high school diploma. One where he could read and write. Maybe work his way into a decent job.

He was walking home from school in the fall of his senior year, waiting at the curb, waiting for the light to change. A group of young blacks in a car drove by and shot at another group of young blacks on the street corner. All the potential that was Dontavious, died in a bloody pool, killed by a bullet not meant for him.

His teachers cried.

[LuFins Dad]

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