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US high school 'held cage fights'

This is all being blown out of proportion. It was part of the technical skill training for the only career these kids will be able to break into with a TX high school degree.
 
BBC NEWS | Americas | US high school 'held cage fights'

Staff at a high school in the US state of Texas had students settle their differences by fighting inside a steel cage, a local newspaper has reported.

What a fine place Texas is.

That from someone that exists in the city of "brotherly love" known as one the most violent cities in thees har countree. A city where sports fans bring guns to shoot their own players when they make a mistake. Being born in Chicago's south side I moved to Houston and love every inch of it here. I've been in philly clubs and bars and despite the ugliest skanks in America the guys there still roll up their T-shirt sleeves and keep Lucky Strike cigarettes in them. Go shovel your snow.
 
I wish my school would have been run like that. :beat
 
Blown out of proportion I expect. When I was in jrHigh thirty years ago, the gym coaches used to do this when they caught two guys posturing for a fight: throw them in the equipment cage and make them fight it out, stopping it when someone had enough. Nobody ever got hurt very much.

Different times, I know...but it usually ended there back when I was a kid, instead of resulting in someone shot or stabbed like it so often does now.
 
Philly is suffering from the end of industrialization whereas Dallas is full of oil money and we still don't have schools that sponsor steel cage matches

No, the money is concentrated in several suburbs around Dallas. The money left when the segregation ended, and Oak Cliff isn't full of much, oil or otherwise.


Lucky Strikes are the ****. Mmmm....Toasted.
 
why do you guys hate entertainment so much

Because the FISCALLY RESPONSIBLE thing to do would have been to make this a PPV. With school budgets as tight as they are in THIS economy, districts can't afford to let opportunities like this slip by.
 
Because the FISCALLY RESPONSIBLE thing to do would have been to make this a PPV. With school budgets as tight as they are in THIS economy, districts can't afford to let opportunities like this slip by.

I got "FISCALLY RESPONSIBLE, THIS" out of your post. Please tone down the language, sir.
 
Philly is suffering from the end of industrialization whereas Dallas is full of oil money and we still don't have schools that sponsor steel cage matches

South Oak Cliff is nowhere near the 'oil money' in Dallas.

:shock:
 
Saw the video. Kids were wearing headgear and gloves, the floor was padded, and they had responsible adult supervision-- including breaking clinches and preventing groundfighting. As far as I am concerned, the only thing the school did wrong was failing to secure parental permission for the bouts. That, and it probably would have been better to use an open space instead of a cage.

This is still a damn sight better for the students than having them expelled and arrested.

Still, it makes me wonder what the principal was thinking in the current legal and cultural climate.
 
Yeah. they should let them settle thier differences in the streets with guns, knives, and ball bats like they do in Philly. :roll:

Ummmmm wow. You're an idiot if you think that even REMOTELY compares to tax payer funded teachers telling kids to fight each other. :2wave:
 
Saw the video. Kids were wearing headgear and gloves, the floor was padded, and they had responsible adult supervision-- including breaking clinches and preventing groundfighting. As far as I am concerned, the only thing the school did wrong was failing to secure parental permission for the bouts. That, and it probably would have been better to use an open space instead of a cage.

This is still a damn sight better for the students than having them expelled and arrested.

Still, it makes me wonder what the principal was thinking in the current legal and cultural climate.

I think this is a great way to handle your typical male.

No, we don't need sensitivity training, we don't need lectures, expulsions, etc...those things will only piss us off even more and no, we won't change even you fill us with riddlin (Columbine).

We need a paternal authority to give us an appropriate outlet for our aggression, and I think this school just about got it right.
 
I think this is a great way to handle your typical male.

No, we don't need sensitivity training, we don't need lectures, expulsions, etc...those things will only piss us off even more and no, we won't change even you fill us with riddlin (Columbine).

We need a paternal authority to give us an appropriate outlet for our aggression, and I think this school just about got it right.

My old man would have my brother and me box each other whenever we started fighting. Put the gloves on us and then acted as the ref. We both ended up boxing for years.

It was a great outlet for our aggression and every now and then the two of us will still spar each other for fun.
 
Ummmmm wow. You're an idiot if you think that even REMOTELY compares to tax payer funded teachers telling kids to fight each other. :2wave:

Tax payer funded teachers tell kids to fight each other all the time, or did your school not have a wrestling team?

Mine did, and they kicked ass. The wrestling coach made a deal with a local Judo dojo to give discounts to middle school students so that they would be trained by the time they got to our high school :cool:

The dojo got the student's business and free name recognition at high school tournaments. Gotta love the free market.
 
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My dad was on a high school boxing team, same with my uncle. My older cousins grew up at the time that fights were "taken to the gym" and settled there with gloves, those were better times in my opinion. And I agree with those who basically say that things will get settled in a fight one way or another. I'd much rather have our kids bruised a little than killed in the street because they aren't taught to handle things in a competitive match with a gentleman's handshake after.
 
My dad was on a high school boxing team, same with my uncle. My older cousins grew up at the time that fights were "taken to the gym" and settled there with gloves, those were better times in my opinion. And I agree with those who basically say that things will get settled in a fight one way or another. I'd much rather have our kids bruised a little than killed in the street because they aren't taught to handle things in a competitive match with a gentleman's handshake after.

Let's treat it the same way we treat sex-ed, shall we: "They're going to do it anyway, so we may as well make it as safe as possible."

Clearly, conflict abstinence does not work.
 
I think you're joking here, but I'm thanking you because I agree 100%.
 
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