Posted on 03/20/2009 1:32:30 PM PDT by txroadkill
Angela Williamson said she can't forget the image of her son's swollen hand after he participated in a cage fight at South Oak Cliff High School. She said her son told her that students stood around clapping and screaming while watching the fight, as if they were in an arena.
Williamson took her son out of South Oak Cliff shortly after that day in 2004 and moved to Cedar Hill.
"I said enough is enough, and we just left," she said. "This was the norm. My son said this is what they do – let them fight in 'the cage.' "
Cage fights at the school between 2003 and 2005 have just come to light, months after the district completed an investigation. Documents obtained by The Dallas Morning News show that troubled students were sent to duke it out – with bare fists and no head protection – in a steel utility cage in an athletic locker room.
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Parents can't provide proper cages.
That principal will be the new Health Care Czar.
One side of me says that this might be a better alternate means of letting these punks act out their frustration...rather than shooting or using knives. Another part of me thinks this is pretty much the wrong way of handling these kids. I’m guessing this has been a tradition around this school for forty years...and we’ll soon find this out.
liberal teachers preparing American kids for thunderdome
Not an uncommon occurrence in schools around the country, I suspect. We used to have them at my jr. high back in the '70s -- the "cage" was the audience.
“liberal teachers preparing American kids for thunderdome”
Two men enter, one man leaves.
This became popular in the sixties, but he kids always had proper equipment.
It was basically a sporting contest.
You’re right to question if maybe this was better than guns and knives. This is not a quiet little suburban school. This is a big city minority high school. You don’t want to walk down the streets of Oak Cliff in broad daylight. The cage probably limited the fights to one on one rather than out in the parking lot where it could potentially become a dozen on one.
“...he put us in a ring with gloves, head gear and mouth pieces and made sure we didn’t fight dirty.”
I recall this at my HS as well except that we boxed on a wrestling mat instead of a ring.
Ours did this too but it was till one wanted to quit or knockout. Take your pick.
That happened more than the coach putting two in for creating a disturbance between them.
special guest referee for Hell in a Cell will be Stone Cold Steve Austin.
As I posted on another thread on this topic:
The first rule of Fight Club is: you do not talk about Fight Club.
The second rule of Fight Club is: you DO NOT talk about Fight Club!
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