TEXAS HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS KNOW HOW TO FIGHT AND PLAY FOOTBALL

Texas public school education shines. Students may not be able to read, write or do math, but they sure know how to fight and, of course, how to play football. At one high school, the cafeteria has become a big smackdown arena.

Andy Dekaney High School, which is located north of Houston, has been the scene of several recent riotous brawls. Although the school administration has played down the problem, parents say the situation is out of control and poses a serious threat to the safety of their children. They say the cops have had to be called out on numerous occasions to restore order.

STUDENTS: ANOTHER ‘OUTRAGEOUS RIOT’ AT DEKANEY HIGH SCHOOL
by Kevin Reece

KHOU 11 News
January 27, 2012

SPRING, Texas – Police were called to Dekaney High School in northwest Harris County Friday after a brawl broke out in the cafeteria.

Spring ISD officials said the fight started between four students. But cell phone video obtained by KHOU 11 News clearly shows a chaotic scene with a lot more than four students involved.

Students who were in the lunchroom at the time said it was more like a riot.

“All these people came and just started hitting everybody,” said Maya Rodriguez, a student. “After a while, I got hit and everybody just started fighting. So I hit back...”

Students were jumping on tables, yelling and throwing things.

“They had a riot at B lunch and it got outrageous,” said Everiel Johnson, a student. “They started throwing milk. Innocent people were getting hit for no reason.”

Dekaney’s principal said she has seen enough.

“We have to have immediate solutions. We know that. We know that we have to do something quickly,” Delic Loyde said.

Dekaney students and parents say they’re fed up with the problems at the school and they don’t think it’s safe.

“We feel like this is getting out of control, way out of control,” said one mom who didn’t want to show her face. “And we just don’t know, as parents, what to do or who to talk to.”

The woman said her son was jumped in a Dekaney hallway on Thursday. She said another student had to be sent to the hospital, so she didn’t let her son go to school on Friday.

“I feel like we’re gonna lose a life if somebody doesn’t do something to prevent these fights that are going on every day,” she said.

Cell phone videos of several small-scale riots at Dekaney were posted to the Internet last year.

That’s why Willie Mayes pulled his son out of Dekaney and sent him to private school.

“I’m coming home and there’s news vans out here once a week. Apparently not being tough enough,” said Willie Mayes. “I’m paying for him to go to private school just to be away from this.”