H-F students are believed to be responsible after , according to a statement from Director of Human Resources and Public Relations Jodi Bryant.
This is the first verified update we’ve received on the group of men who jumped the students “without provocation” on a side street near the intersection of Governors Highway and Flossmoor Road. Bryant says the high school has been working with and they are close to naming all of the attackers.
An official statement from Superintendent Von Mansfield and Principal Ryan Pitcock on Tuesday said although the incident was off-campus, the high school still feels responsible for the safety of their students. In response, high school security will be extended to the edge of campus and they will maintain partnership with the , according to the statement.
“Ninety-nine percent of our students comply with the rules,” the statement added. “Students not complying with the rules will not have a future at Homewood-Flossmoor High School.”
We will post additional updates as more information becomes available.
This is my first week of classes, which is generally just going over syllabi and really has no work involved with it. Today I only have one class, so of course I'm going to come on here and exercise my 1st amendment right about my "hometown", the place I have lived my whole life and will be returning to during breaks from college.
none will speak the truth
Incidentally, I saw a Homewood police officer on a bike patrolling the Willow School neighborhood this morning. I suspect this officer was on the look-out for Chicago and other nonresident vehicle stickers. Kudos to Homewood Police Department!
The academic environment for the black student body is being much more affected by this. Black students who do not get the proper reinforcement at home and come to school to act a fool and victimize other students (mostly other blacks) needs to be dealt with in a serious way. The environment of physical aggression, acting out, and disrespecting other students occurs to black students by far more often. Mostly by other black students. The black students who appear to come from good homes by the way they act, talk, look, dress, and socialize are usually the victims. Unfortunately some come to school not to learn but to act like fools and be entertaining. HF as most schools tolerates this among the black student body as being typical black culture, so long as no incidents like this occur where heaven forbid white students are injured. I think it's absurd that we make this a black against white issue. Instead of looking at ways to change acceptance of this sort of behavior among the angry and disruptive black students who do not get proper reinforcement from there parents at home. Then come to school and totally act out.
This isn't a CNN news story because the student racial tension is not high at HF. Just as when I attended, HF has a very high percentage of black and white students who hang out and socialize outside of school together. Much higher than most high schools with mixed demographics. Primarily because there is also relative income and class parity among the white and black students at HF. Lets not forget that the black middle class makes up over 50 percent of flossmoor's entire population these days. And many of the blacks living in flossmoor are a lot wealthier than middle class.Unlike most other diverse school districts were most of the black students live in the apartments on the bad side of town. Which is why you see more socializing outside of school, hanging out, and interracial dating among the races at HF. Definitely not a racially charged powder keg ready to explode.
My oldest is at HF and two more are in SD 153. All of my kids have black friends and have never had any issues all the years they have attended school here. Our family has many friends in SD 161 (black and white) and I have not heard of anything on the scale of what happened last Friday. I do believe this culprits to be out of district residency violators with gang affiliation. I hope the administration pursues these violators with determined diligence.
I am not 100 percent convinced that all of the facts are out yet and have been presented accurately. Particularly what where the injuries. Was it black eyes, bloody noses, punched in the face type of brutal stuff. Or was it possibly unwanted and uninvited ruff housing. Chasing, tackling, wrestling, and that sort of thing. Not saying that would be appropriate. But if that does turn out to be the case then this whole thing is being very overblown. At this point I am not sure. I think if there were real injuries that were sustained, this would have been reported by now. I just think this sounds like a racially charged story that people may have been too quick to jump to judgement. Because I have yet to get a clear answer of what exactly took place.
So there are conflicting stories to what is being posted on this board. And today's Fox News TV report had no mention about a racial incident. I think all of the facts have yet to come out.
http://www.myfoxchicago.com/
a) RACHEL, a girl, was sent to the hospital for a concussion. A few others got black eyes, etc. b) The attacking group was shouting white racial slurs at the victims, which while it does not prove it was racially motivated it does at the same time imply that. c) HF is a perfectly normal high school in America. YES, there is some racial tension. However, this really is more or less isolated. All of my friends (White and Black, and every ethnicity and income level in between), do not think this is acceptable behavior. It really does reflect what 99% of the school thinks. So if you can just find those 27-35 students in that 1%, then no issue.
I am not totally convinced that this is what occurred. The news has been slow to come out. And the fox news report was like a dud that went off when they thought they were coming out to report on racial fireworks. No juicy meet in that reports at all. Just a camera pointing down a well manicured Flossmoor street. There have been a couple of incidents in the news lately about "flash mobs" or whatever. This may be what people are thinking about when blowing this incident up.News reporting makes these incidents appear to be common place.Almost no media attention went to a "mob" of young white teens who murdered a black man last month. Google news "James Anderson".
H-F IS predominantly black. White students are not the majority but why does that fact have to equate to it going down as a school? I don't think so. This is only what i see from going there maybe I don't know the bigger issues at hand. Just my opinion.