I don’t deal in third party hearsay propaganda.
For instance - did the same peope tell you he was a “football player” - and posted his middle school picture? here is the roster for his High school.
http://www.berecruited.com/high-schools/florida/miami/dr-michael-m-krop-senior-high-school/football - he isn’t on it - maybe JV? Here is a hint - most schools - if you are suspended - you are not elegible. And why the photo - from middle school?
What grade was this English teacher? 5 years ago? Like the photos? Seriously - there are some giant credibility issues around this - even for the usual lax with facts media.
He was suspended 3X - closing on 20 days - as a Junior. By February. First suspension was for tardiness and missing school - so ...... - probably missing 20-25% of school days.
Some data - I’m not racist - just fact based:
Dr. Michael M. Krop HS is 41% Hispanic, 29% White non-Hispanic, 28% Black, and 0.1% Asian
Reading some other data - it seems like a very average school - for the low performing demographic enrolled.
When 50% of the school is below proficient in reading - BELOW the Florida average - need to take hearsay English grades with a grain of salt.
Graduation rate - 80%
Number of students taking SAT: 516
Percentage of grade 12 enrollment taking the SAT: 71.3%
SAT average for all students taking the test: 982
ACT average for all students taking the test: 19.9
Basically - if you can read at grade level (even at degraded modern levels) - you are an honor roll student at that school.
So - definitely not a total terrible school. A decent school - compared with typical minority data. Below average for whites.
My bet is - given the media and family’s approach to this - if he had “As and Bs on his report card” - it would have been plastered all over the news by now.
This guy was suspended 3X as a Junior - he wasn’t on the “Dean’s list” - he was on the “Dean’s other list”.
I’ve got nothing against the guy - but I’ll bet his parents were 0 help. It looks - to me - like a nice kid going bad/getting in with the wrong crowd - in High School (you can tel by the twitter account name - yearning for attention as a bad boy). Happens all the time. No reason to sugar coat it - in fact - that would be a great lesson to pull from this.
And by the way -
How did they cal lthem “the next morning” - if he was in the morgue un-identified for 3 days?
Here you go Alice -
Just as I guessed - he hasn’t played football in 2-3 years.
Wonder why the media presented him as such?
Note is from a pro-Trayvon site:
“The boy was a swift athlete, according to a friend, and played a range of positions up to about age 14. After he stopped playing, he remained active in the organization, volunteering six days a week from June through November of last year to help run the team’s concession stand.”
And also - why should I take even this note at face value? You ever see a middle school team with an active concession stand at every practice? Ours is home games only. Just sayin’.
It does make one wonder - how this “swift athlete” was “chased down” by Zimmerman.