by Michael Monks
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THE RIVER CITY NEWS MORE COVINGTON NEWS THAN ANY OTHER SOURCE
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UPDATE (4:24PM): Covington Police Lt. Col. Spike Jones tells The River City News that no weapons were drawn by the responding police officers which totaled "seven officers as well as members of other bureaus in the department for a total of eleven in all."
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Five students were arrested at Holmes High School following a fight that broke out in the school's cafeteria. At 12:50 Monday afternoon the school resource officer radioed dispatchers saying that a large fight had broken out. Covington Police Lieutenant Colonel Spike Jones did not say how many students may have been involved. A request for comment from the Covington Independent Public Schools District has not been answered yet.
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Families of CIPS students report on Facebook a frightening scene of more than ten police cars, police dogs, and officers with guns drawn.
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ARRESTED:
- Trajon Lee, 18, is charged with second degree disorderly conduct, bonded out jail Monday and appeared in court this morning
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| TraJon Lee |
- Alex Courtney, 18, is charged with second degree disorderly conduct, bonded out of jail Monday, and will appear in court Wednesday morning
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| Alex Courtney |
- Jamel Cutright, 18, is charged with second degree disorderly conduct, bonded out of jail Monday, and will appear in court Wednesday morning
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| Jamel Cutright |
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- Marquis Spencer, 18, is charged with second degree disorderly conduct, bonded out of jail Monday, and is to appear in court on Thursday morning
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| Marquis Spencer |
- Shaquille Jackson, 18, is charged with second degree disorderly conduct, bonded out of jail Monday, and is due in court Friday morning
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| Shaquille Jackson |
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The Cincinnati Enquirer's Brenna Kelly reports:
The fight started with two students then 13 students became involved, said Debra Vance, Covington Independent Schools spokeswoman. There were about 200 students and nine adults in the cafeteria at the time, she said. All students involved will be suspended pending a disciplinary hearing, she said.
The River City News will continue to follow this story and will update as soon as the district responds with more information and as soon as more clarification is offered by the police department.
And yet the administration felt no need to notify parents of the lock down or the potential danger their children faced. At the same time the CIS BOE claims they want parents to be more connected and involved with what goes on.
ReplyDeleteHolmes High School has barely functioned as a school for a long time. Fights break out in classrooms on a regular basis, too. It's just something the students do to keep things interesting.
ReplyDeleteThe Comments Posted From Other People On This Web Page Makes Me Sick ; ! As A Holmes High School Student I Can Honestly Say That Us Student's Do Not Fight Just To Keep Things Interesting ! We Have Alot Of Good Classes & Programs To Interest Us ! & Yes These Boys Fought & I Know Most Of Them Personaly They Are Good Guys Who Have Amazing Personalities & Great Goals In Life & I Can Tell You Now They All Must Of Had A Good Reason To Do What They Did Or They Wouldn't Have Done It ! & It Really Makes Me Mad That You All Are Judging These Boys For Their Actions ! Your Adults Grow Up ! Holmes Is Not A Bad School ! & They Put Us Students In A Lockdown For A Reason ; They Had Us Protected ! & If It Was Bad Enough To Where The School Thought We Were In Risk Of Our Lives Then Of Course Our Parents Would Be Called ; ! We Were In No Danger ! Trust Me I Was At School That Day !
ReplyDeleteYou go Autumn! As a senior of holmes I'm glad to call it my school. We have had problems but what schools don't at holmes I've had great memories and are still making them. We are people just like everyone else so why do they always choose holmes to make look negative, it happens everywhere..
DeleteHolmes is not a bad school, it is what the students make of it just as all schools. This could happen anywhere.
ReplyDeleteI am a holmes high school student & for somebody to says its not a school makes me mad as hell....i feell safe everyday I go to school...holmes may have a couple problems (not referring to students) but its the only school that'll excepts all people no matter wat they may hav done....everybody in holmes can back me up when I say good things do happen at holmes but all people wanna hear about is the bad stuff....hav it ever occured to u that maybe people act that way because its all they know & some feel the need to fight so that they can feel safe....STOP LOOKING DOWN ON HOLMES...we may not be like Dixie, Holy Cross, Simon Kenton, or fuckin Notre Dame...unlike them we aint got nun to hide...we dont put on a front for nobody...WE ACT LIKE WE DO ANYWHERE ELSE...& if that means throwin hands then that what we gon do....now if any parents feel the need to send ur kids to a different skool...by all means do so cause we probably wont miss em anyway
ReplyDeleteIt's great to see the kids weigh in, and defend their school. Students, your words will carry more weight without foul language, bad grammar and poor spelling.
ReplyDeleteI have a Holmes student and this situation is completely being blown out of proportion. Kids all over the United States get into fights at school. It happened when I was a kid (in a county school) and it will continue to happen. I'm not justifying the fight, but let's put it into prospective. No weapons were involved, except those of the police. Students I spoke to who witnessed the fight said they did not feel threatened, nor were they in fear. Holmes put the school on lock down as a safety precaution. That happens in schools all the time and parents are not contacted. If it were an emergency, we would have been called. Holmes gets singled out because we are the school in the city and we're poor. And while I do not agree with the format it was presented (mainly language), the student who said we come as we are is correct. I want to be clear that we can and do normally present ourselves well, even though we fight against stereotypes all the time. We have an excellent IB program and our student athletes are wonderful examples. I'm not saying we're perfect or that there aren't problems. But when you consider that some of the kids in our school work jobs to put food into their own mouths, handle things on a daily basis that suburbian school kids only see on tv, I am quite proud of our Bulldogs! The school handles very diverse situations that most schools don't come across and our graduation rate is right up there with the county schools, even better in some cases. Holmes is striving to make men and women of character. And in some cases, the teachers some kids see in class are the only examples they have. Not all students, but some...and we have a group of kids who care about themselves and what they do with themselves. Don't let one bad story paint a picture that Holmes is a horrible place. I love my school and will continue to support it.
ReplyDeleteAs a Holmes Alumni and a former parent of a Holmes student, I must admit I too always thought the media and the public "picked on" Holmes. That Holmes was not the only school with behavior issues.....that other schools had the same problems but the media never gave them attention.
ReplyDeleteMy child no longer attends Holmes, she is in another district, and I can tell you that this type of behavior, though of course it could, does not happen! My daughter has discussed 2 , yes TWO, fights that have taken place at her school ALL YEAR.
I know there are some good things happening at Holmes, and I know there are some very good children there with great potential, many who I love dearly.
But I also know that it is difficult to see what you are truly missing academically and socially until you are exposed to an environment that actually has high expectations and high academic standards.
My daughter no longer attends Holmes, and it saddens me to say that I am grateful for that. I have seen enormous improvements in her attitude, work ethic, responsibility and most importantly, her academics over this past year.
"Truth Is" ~ if the behavior displayed in your school setting is the way you "act like we do anywhere else" perhaps it is time to evaluate how you and your fellow school mates act. School is not about "throwin hands", it is meant to be an institution of learning, to expand your horizons, and to begin your path to college and a career, fully prepared. Anything less than that means you are wasting your time and my tax dollars.