Tempers flare between Houston, Louisiana students and their mothers
05:14 PM CDT on Tuesday, September 13, 2005
By Wendell Edwards / 11 News
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Doesn't this just warm your heart?
Three students were taken to area hospitals with injuries from the altercation.
Security will be increased Wednesday at a southeast Houston high school where a fight broke Tuesday between Louisiana and Houston students.
"Man, they were just going at it," said Larry Citizen, a student. "Man, that's all it was -- Louisiana versus Jessie Jones."
When it was over, three Jones High School students were in the hospital and five were in police custody.
The scene got even uglier when parents arrived.
A loud verbal confrontation broke out between mothers of some of the students involved in the first fight.
"They jumped on my nephew inside this school, busted him in the head. They're sending him to the hospital," yelled one woman.
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Police separated the group of women and threatened to arrest them if they didn't calm down.
"They jumped on my son, but yet you want to arrest me," complained one mother.
"Let us work it out, OK?" one HPD officer told the angry parents.
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A verbal confrontation broke out between the students' mothers who showed up at the school.
One mother of a student who was arrested ended up in handcuffs herself.
The first fight started around 9 a.m. when a bus rolled up carrying Katrina evacuees enrolled at the school.
According to police, someone threw a can at one of the evacuees and that set off a fight involving several students.
Ambulances were called to the scene to take the injured to Ben Taub Hospital. It's not clear whether they were evacuees or Houston students.
Of the five arrested, Two are from Louisiana and three are Houston students. All are charged with disruption of school activities.
Witnesses at the scene say today's incident was retaliation for another altercation on Friday.
Parents say tensions had been strained since the evacuees started school here last week.
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Three Houston students and two from Louisiana were arrested.
"They beat my nephew up. We're from New Orleans," said one woman.
"We need to go home. We need to go home because ya'll don't want us here anyway," said another evacuee.
Michael Lewis says, from his perspective, the students are just mirroring the frustration of many adults.
"You have ladies that have been trying to get on welfare and food stamps, trying to get government assistance, housing. And then evacuees coming here and getting it instantly," said Lewis. "The whole city is a melting pot."
HISD says officials reminded students that fighting of any kind will not be tolerated.
"We expect our children to have behave better than this. Also we've said to the New Orleans kids, you are our guest, but you have to follow the rules." said HISD spokesman Terry Abbott.
Extra police officers and a group of ministers will try to help keep the peace at the school beginning Wednesday.
About 200 evacuees are attending Jones High School in the 7400 block of St. Lo. That's the largest number of evacuee students in any Houston school.
HISD officials say a total of 3,000 Louisiana students are attending their schools.
When I read about people using their $2,000 to buy $800 handbags I was not surprised.
When I read that the kids from New Orleans would cause trouble in schools they were sent to, I was not surprised.
When I read that the parents also starting fighting, I was not surprised.
Isn't that a shame that this type of behavior is common and expected.
What I want to know is where was GWB? Why did he allow this fight to escalate?
Where was the national guard?
Here is a picture of student role models saying hi to eachother. The New Orlean parents wanted to know when the next PTA meeting took place. One mother also wanted to know about her son joining the theatre group.
Here is a picture of a student asking where the library is, while his friend asks where the tutoring center is.
There parents all need to march outside the school until GWB tells them why they were not given $10,000 to go to private school. Why should they have to go to a public school? Why do people who work hard and have money get to go to a school where kids learn and parents don't brawl in the street? In fact, every kid in public school should be able to go to private school. They should also be given a free computer and a limo to school.
All I know, none of this was their fault at all.
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Oh yeah, you have a way with words, Game. One might even say 'ya got game'. This post was hilarious. And you are 100% right. It will only get worse. As I've said all along, those poor Texans, their future looks dim. They will never get rid of the evacuees (notice I am PC, and not using the controvesial term 'refugees'). Houston, I think you have a problem. LOL.
nice touch stephanie...very nice..
do you have a blog?
Let us try to remember, that although there is some "human excrement" that have been bussed in from what's left of New Orleans, and there is some "human excrement" already living in Houston, they really are in the minority. Keep in mind, also, that Houston is still one of the most violent cities in America.
Most of the people that had to leave their homes in New Orleans are good people. The sensationalist media only cover the bad ones.
Only a mall part of the point was that there were New Orleans kids there...I teach at a school like this...behavior like this is common
The widespread behavioral meltdown of our entitlement culture shouldn't be down played with words like "minority". There is a problem in this culture where everyone believes they deserve everything for free and that taking anything they want is the correct alternative to hard work.
As a resident of the Gulf Coast, not from New Orleans, but quite familiar with it, I have one response to the post by Mark Maness: You're not from around heah, are you?
This is to Game: Thanks for the comment about my post. No, I don't have a blog. That would require that I maintain much more political correctness when voicing my opinions. I don't think I could stand it. I'm just thankful for your blog, and others like it, so for now, at least I don't have to work so hard at this PC thing. If I get too disgusted with what is going on, I just stay away from posting until I've rebooted myself, so I can maintain some semblance of being PC once again.
Here's a news flash direct from a close relative of mine, a member of the National Guard who has been in New Orleans since 09/04/2005.
She has been working on an assignment to guard some locals who had been given jobs, to help clean up some of the mess in THEIR OWN NEIGHBORHOODS. Apparently these people wanted the jobs, they just didn't want to ACTUALLY DO any of the required work. So when the Guard members responsible for making sure they were actually working told them they needed to work, not goof off, not sit around, these residents got mouthy with the Guardsmen (women in this case). Things got bad enough where a black female Guard member got involved, told the residents they were lazy, then turned to my relative and said: "This is probably why some plantation owners beat their slaves." Of course the other white Guard members were very grateful for their black member's presence, and willingness to confront the situation. If they had stood up to these lazy New Orleans residents, they would have been racists.
One more thing.....there's lots in history regarding the facts about what happened in the Old South. Unfortunately, these truths are not taught in grade school, high school, or even at the undergraduate level in college. The reason given for this is that the 'powers that be' believe the average citizen's level of intelligence could not process these truths without causing "prejudice". They believe it should be reserved for those with the mental abilities to make it to graduate school. Of course, I disagree.................that to me is the same as promoting myths, aka lies.
stephanie...
even though what you have said is correct and true...it can not be said in the american media...
we have to hide the behavior of the innter cities..we have to keep leaders making excuses for poor behavior, and make comments like "bush blew up levees because he hates blacks"
How can we promote "proper" behavior?
Remember you guys are the party of "ideas" so I'm looking to get some? I have lots of ideas...but I'm not part of the party of ideas so people keep telling me I have none, I guess they are right.
Well Ron, for starters we could get rid of 'special programs' for certain people. It's not just a coincidence that the people who get these hand outs from these programs, (such as free college education, mandatory rights for a job they are less qualified for than another person, who happens to be the better qualified person of the wrong color), are mostly the ones who are in the ghetto, dependent on the rest of society. Last year I read some documentaries/bio's about this. The stats for the number of people who receive these hand outs, and those that ever do accomplish anything to better there situation in life, are grim, and do not support these 'special priviledges' programs at all. If people want to get ahead, they can work for it just like the early immigrants. It was a dog eat dog world back then, but the strong survived. Any sort of gain made without blood, sweat, and tears won't put people throught the sort of lifetime learning adventures that builds the sort of character the USA deserves of it's citizens. These lessons in hard work, and accomplishment are then passed on to future generations. See, that is how character, with the type of values that the USA was founded on is made.
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