Texas High School Staged Cage Fights Between Students, Documents Say

FOXNews.com ^ | Thursday, March 19, 2009 | FOX NEWS

[metmom]

A Texas high school used cage fights to settle disputes among problem students, internal investigation documents obtained by The Dallas Morning News allege.

The principal and other staff at South Oak Cliff High School in Dallas repeatedly put students in a steel utility cage located in a section of the boys basketball locker room to battle it out — with their bare fists and without head protection, the documents show.

A 2008 investigation within the Dallas school district's Office of Professional Responsibility found that then-principal Donald Moten and other school officials "knew of the practice, allowed it to go on for a time, and failed to report it."

The cage fights happened between 2003 and 2005, according to the district's report.

[Doc Prospero]

I like how it comes out while they’re in the middle of being busted for cheating on their NCLB scores. Basically this school is a little slice of dumba*s.

[NormsRevenge]

The prison population should grow a bit if this is true...
and I don’t mean with fighting students.

[exist]

Seems reasonable to me.

[B-Chan]

[NonValueAdded]

yeah, but was it effective? /semi-serious

[Army Air Corps]

This like the plot of some really bad movie. Something on par with Billy Jack goes to Washington.

[bobby.223]

I agree to that. more than some 3 month stretch also, give their time some teeth. what the hell happened to out by the baseball diamond after school for a go and when it was over often the two sluggers ended up good friends. a long time ago I guess.

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[BallyBill]

What is the problem, did they overcharge for tickets? They did this when I was in school, sans a cage and foreign objects. You did have to wear boxing gloves though.

[TLEIBY308]

We had something like that back in H.S. Ours was an open mat and with head gear and boxing gloves. It worked out fine. Most ended up with the fighters becoming friends.

[PLMerite]

Next thing we’ll hear is that they had the girls jello-wrestling.

[LukeL]

I wonder how much money traded hands because of these fights and which of the staff was the bookie.

[bgill]

Minority school with low test scores.

[La Lydia]

You misstated the size of the dumba**. It is an extra large slice, with whipped topping.

[GreenLanternCorps]

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!

[Turret Gunner A20]

FROM THE ARTICLE: ...one middle school counselor, who was fired from his job at South Oak Cliff High and has filed a whistleblower lawsuit, tells a different story.

HMMMMM! A most worthy source, to be sure.

I wonder if the complainers would rather the fight take place in some back lot school; starting a riot amongst the onlookers would be a more desireble way for the fight to go on.