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Post by Queen of the Damned on Mar 20, 2009 20:37:00 GMT -5
Staff at a high school in the US state of Texas had students settle their differences by fighting inside a steel cage, a local newspaper has reported. The Dallas Morning News says it has obtained a school board report that says two "cage fights" took place at South Oak Cliff High between 2003-2005. The 2008 report says the principal and other employees knew of the practice. No criminal charges were ever filed, and the principal at the time has denied any fights took place. Donald Moten, who retired as principal last year, told the Morning News: "That's barbaric... It never did happen. I never put a stop to anything because it never happened." 'Unacceptable' The alleged fights came to light during a grade-fixing investigation, after which the school was stripped of two basketball titles. In the report, a teacher was quoted as saying Mr Moten told a member of staff to put two fighting students "in the cage and let 'em duke it out". There was no mention in the report of whether anyone required medical attention or whether any employees were disciplined. I'm in shock and disbelief - shocked that this could ever occur and shocked that it would be condoned by a professional administrator Jerome Garza Dallas school board The paper said it was not clear from the report whether there were more than two fights in a steel mesh equipment cage in the boys' changing room. A district spokesman would not comment on the report to the newspaper. "I'm in shock and disbelief - shocked that this could ever occur and shocked that it would be condoned by a professional administrator," Jerome Garza, a member of the Dallas school board, told the newspaper. Superintendent Michael Hinojosa told the newspaper that there were "some things that happened inside of a cage" and called the fights "unacceptable". Angela Williamson, a parent, told the paper that she was ignored when she attempted to bring the matter to the attention of district administrators. She said her son, Cortland, told her that students stood around clapping and screaming while watching a fight he participated in. He and another student fought for 5-10 minutes in the cage in 2004, she said. Williamson said she took her son out of the school and moved to another district shortly after he came home with a swollen hand. news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7954902.stm
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Post by Venom Punk on Mar 20, 2009 20:44:47 GMT -5
Weird. Me and my friend were thinking of an idea for a movie and we thought of this exact plot.
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Post by hypercringe on Mar 20, 2009 20:46:44 GMT -5
bah they should have sold this on PPV with profits going to fund the school
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Post by bbsy2 on Mar 20, 2009 20:47:19 GMT -5
bah they should have sold this on PPV with profits going to fund the school LMAO
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Post by Queen of the Damned on Mar 20, 2009 21:01:38 GMT -5
bah they should have sold this on PPV with profits going to fund the school good idea! I wonder if Vince has seen this yet...
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Post by hypercringe on Mar 20, 2009 21:04:56 GMT -5
bah they should have sold this on PPV with profits going to fund the school good idea! I wonder if Vince has seen this yet... No if he did we'd probably have some 25 underage school girl mud wrestling match
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Post by Queen of the Damned on Mar 20, 2009 21:09:47 GMT -5
good idea! I wonder if Vince has seen this yet... No if he did we'd probably have some 25 underage school girl mud wrestling match meh, not that great.... (this is the part where LG will pipe in about being 16 and underage being fine....) but, for those of us that would prefer to see kids (teenagers) in particular just beat the shit out of each other, the girls part would just ruin it all....
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Post by hypercringe on Mar 20, 2009 21:14:23 GMT -5
No if he did we'd probably have some 25 underage school girl mud wrestling match meh, not that great.... (this is the part where LG will pipe in about being 16 and underage being fine....) but, for those of us that would prefer to see kids (teenagers) in particular just beat the shit out of each other, the girls part would just ruin it all.... why not just have preschool kids beating the crap out of each other in a no tears falls count anywhere scraped knee match
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Post by Queen of the Damned on Mar 20, 2009 21:18:28 GMT -5
meh, not that great.... (this is the part where LG will pipe in about being 16 and underage being fine....) but, for those of us that would prefer to see kids (teenagers) in particular just beat the shit out of each other, the girls part would just ruin it all.... why not just have preschool kids beating the crap out of each other in a no tears falls count anywhere scraped knee match no tears wouldn't happen, it would be a lot of crying and whining....especially at the end
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Post by hypercringe on Mar 20, 2009 21:24:22 GMT -5
why not just have preschool kids beating the crap out of each other in a no tears falls count anywhere scraped knee match no tears wouldn't happen, it would be a lot of crying and whining....especially at the end So we would have alot of disqualifications each fighter can have his mommy in his corner to kiss any booboo better
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Post by moneyinthebank on Mar 20, 2009 22:27:35 GMT -5
I wonder if the fights were sanctioned ?
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Post by Queen of the Damned on Mar 21, 2009 19:56:29 GMT -5
I wonder if the fights were sanctioned ? me thinks not.....
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Post by kaasa on Mar 23, 2009 16:48:17 GMT -5
E-C-Dub! E-C-Dub! E-C-Dub!
My God!
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Post by hypercringe on Mar 23, 2009 19:35:05 GMT -5
I wonder if the fights were sanctioned ? me thinks not..... Non sanctioned matches? Like the ones Vince gives air time two and hypes them for a PPV?
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