Cage Matches In Texas High School

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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.

The Dallas Morning News says it has obtained a school board report that says two "cage fights" took place at South Oak Cliff High between 2003-2005.

The 2008 report says the principal and other employees knew of the practice.

No criminal charges were ever filed, and the principal at the time has denied any fights took place.

Donald Moten, who retired as principal last year, told the Morning News: "That's barbaric... It never did happen. I never put a stop to anything because it never happened."

'Unacceptable'

The alleged fights came to light during a grade-fixing investigation, after which the school was stripped of two basketball titles.

In the report, a teacher was quoted as saying Mr Moten told a member of staff to put two fighting students "in the cage and let 'em duke it out".

There was no mention in the report of whether anyone required medical attention or whether any employees were disciplined.

The paper said it was not clear from the report whether there were more than two fights in a steel mesh equipment cage in the boys' changing room.

A district spokesman would not comment on the report to the newspaper.

"I'm in shock and disbelief - shocked that this could ever occur and shocked that it would be condoned by a professional administrator," Jerome Garza, a member of the Dallas school board, told the newspaper.

Superintendent Michael Hinojosa told the newspaper that there were "some things that happened inside of a cage" and called the fights "unacceptable".

Angela Williamson, a parent, told the paper that she was ignored when she attempted to bring the matter to the attention of district administrators.

She said her son, Cortland, told her that students stood around clapping and screaming while watching a fight he participated in.

He and another student fought for 5-10 minutes in the cage in 2004, she said.

Williamson said she took her son out of the school and moved to another district shortly after he came home with a swollen hand.

Eh...

In the report, a teacher was quoted as saying Mr Moten told a member of staff to put two fighting students "in the cage and let 'em duke it out".

Someone's sarcasm detector was broken that day and took it as literal.

[TheAppleFreak]

Wow...
I can't say any more about this. That is appaling, especially in a learning environment.

[DL offline]

That is awesome. Sounds to me like someone saw Fight Club then decided to take it to the next level. Though had they let this continue bad things would have happened to Dallas, mostly because I doubt they would have had the money to get to NY after all the stuff they would have had to get.

[TheLQ offline]

They watched too much MMA

[DeadViolet offline]

Y'know what this calls for?

[. offline]

was it horrible of me that my first thought was Clerks 2 where Jay goes "YO! WHAT UP! STEEL CAGE MATCH!"

Ya know... right on. Sometimes the best thing is to let two willing participants duke it out.

[Fluffy offline]

How sad that people feel the need to pummel each other to bits in a cage instead of talking to or avoiding said person.

[JesusFreak offline]

Eh, as long as both parties are willing, I don't see a problem with this.

[. offline]

How sad that people feel the need to pummel each other to bits in a cage instead of talking to or avoiding said person.

WWI, WWII, ever Star Wars movie. Violence solves problems.

[JesusFreak offline]

How sad that people feel the need to pummel each other to bits in a cage instead of talking to or avoiding said person.

WWI, WWII, every Star Wars movie. Violence solves problems.

Exactly.

[Carth]

Perhaps, but the fact that it was condoned by school officials just adds that extra "WTF?" factor. Which it does, actually. WTF? ._. Where do they even get these kinds of crazy ideas? That does not spell healthy school environment kthx.

How sad that people feel the need to pummel each other to bits in a cage instead of talking to or avoiding said person.

WWI, WWII, every Star Wars movie. Violence solves problems.

The very fact that WWII started was because of the unequal treaties and leftover tensions as a result of the damage caused by the previous war. Violence breeds more violence, folks.

[. offline]

Perhaps, but the fact that it was condoned by school officials just adds that extra "WTF?" factor. Which it does, actually. WTF? Where do they even get these kinds of crazy ideas? That does not spell healthy school environment kthx.

How sad that people feel the need to pummel each other to bits in a cage instead of talking to or avoiding said person.

WWI, WWII, every Star Wars movie. Violence solves problems.

The very fact that WWII started was because of the unequal treaties and leftover tensions as a result of the damage caused by the previous war. Violence breeds more violence, folks.

WWII solved it with more violence.

[JesusFreak offline]

Perhaps, but the fact that it was condoned by school officials just adds that extra "WTF?" factor. Which it does, actually. WTF? Where do they even get these kinds of crazy ideas? That does not spell healthy school environment kthx.

How sad that people feel the need to pummel each other to bits in a cage instead of talking to or avoiding said person.

WWI, WWII, every Star Wars movie. Violence solves problems.

The very fact that WWII started was because of the unequal treaties and leftover tensions as a result of the damage caused by the previous war. Violence breeds more violence, folks.

WWII solved it with more violence.

And thus gave us COD4.