Posted on 04/19/2005 4:40:32 PM PDT by BurbankKarl
Classes were tense but orderly at Jefferson High School today after unrest that attracted extraordinary security and the city's top political and education officials.
To enhance safety, entry was limited and security officers with wands checked students for weapons. A total of 44 school and Los Angeles Police Department officers patrolled the campus today.
Officials also barred gang paraphernalia and provided bag lunches, in part to avoid concentration of students in the cafeteria, the flash point of several melees.
Officials estimated that school attendance was down by 1,400 students.
The relative calm today followed two melees on the campus on East 41st Street in less than a week. Several students were injured.
More than 100 black and Latino students were involved in what administrators said was a racially and gang-motivated brawl Monday. Officials said school police used pepper spray to defend themselves and quell the melee. Six students were arrested and another suffered a broken hip.
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There is only one high school in LA that is majority black and that is Dorsey High in Watts.Even Fremont and Jordan,schools that were virtually all black in the Seventies,are now majority Latino.
The blacks are not being"kicked out".Most black families who can are going out to San Berdoo,Riverside and out to the Lancaster-Palmdale area.
Oh for Pete's sake. What a joke.
Hi DD! What's the news in Wilmas?
Not much. It's still loaded with litter and trash tossing scum suckers. Trash pick-up is tomorrow so the bums with grocery carts are out on patrol foraging for aluminum cans. You know, just another typical day in the barrio.
The weather's nice, though. :-)
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