Tensions overflow at Jones High School

Houston Chronicle ^ | Sept. 14, 2005 | JENNIFER RADCLIFFE

[Archidamus]

"We were doing good before they came here — for real."

I am sure you were.

[samadams2000]

Thank God for the Catholic school system or it would be game over in this country.

[Mears]

And so it begins!

[ncountylee]

"The incident is the first problem the district has had since enrolling 3,403 evacuated students."

Not the last!

[Arpege92]

"Thank God for the Catholic school system or it would be game over in this country."

Amen to that!

[BenLurkin]

"Nobody's giving us $2,000. When it floods here, we don't go over there," said Pedro Umana, 14, a freshman from Houston. "They started it, but we finished it. And it's not over yet."

Real nice.

[Archidamus]

Scorpions in a bottle.

[rockabyebaby]

Two NOLA kids were stabbed here in MA.

Several of the NOLA refugees here in MA are b*tching and whining about the food they are getting, keep in mind SIX THOUSAND MA residents volunteered to cook, clean and babysit for these people, they have it better than some people in MA and they have the audacity to whine, if the food is sooo disgusting, why aren't they cooking for THEMSELVES???? Can anyone say, ungrateful???

[appleharvey]

Like the old saying goes, "Put a beggar on horseback, and he'll ride it to death."

[Extremist]

"Jones High School" my arse. It should be called "Jones Daycare for Future TDCJ Inmates." We do these young-ones a severe disservice by not stepping in and taking the place of the insipid malcontents they know as parents. I wish the idiotic left would focus their attention from killing the unborn poor to raising those already amongst us. How many liberals do you 'spect are actually on the ground in New Orleans? I'd bet the farm their numbers are very, very few.

[Paleo Conservative]

"They're looking for something
to take the edge off of their Jones,
if you will."

[BenLurkin]

"Robert Muhammad, southwest regional minister of the Nation of Islam . . . will be on hand to counsel families at Jones today."

[Tax-chick]

Both Thea and her friend Jange Nero, 15 ...

"How do you say that?" ping. (Note the name on the contributors to the article, too - last line.)

[bboop]

I caught that too -- what exactly is Nation of Islam doing in there? Are those Muzzies? With an attitude??

[gpapa]

Evidently an envoy of the dupe of terrorists, Louis Farrakan.

[Aggie Mama]

My son is in the Catholic school system in Houston right now. Our small school of 250 has absorbed 80 new students from Louisiana. It is becoming a real strain on the system. You want to be charitable, but you also don't want your child's education to suffer. I'm undecided at the moment how I feel about all of this. I guess it's kind of a wait-and-see.

[rabidralph]

a Houston boy started the fight by hitting a New Orleans boy in the head with an open can of Sprite.

He was just trying to show him his motto.

[kittymyrib]

O'Reilly showed the video tape of yesterday's skirmishes and some HUGE black mothers were also involved in it. The Farrakhan clone was saying how the Houston blacks resented the fact that the NO flood victims were getting all the free stuff. Well, apparently they all have managed to get more than enough to eat in spite of their oppression. Though this article says that the school is 55% black, I didn't see a single white student in the tape. I guess those 45% are laying low during this fracas. What a zoo this must be!

[Txsleuth]

I am a little skeptical that it is the FIRST problem they have had...I betcha there were fights before the NO kids came, and there will be fights after they leave...

That Islam guy is NOT helping things...just saw him on O'Reilly...