Four Barrow County high school students were arrested on school disturbance and affray charges last week following a September fight near buses that cart students to and from Apalchee High School to the College and Career Preparatory Academy. A fifth teen was arrested for the same charges and a third charge of criminal trespass since he hadn’t been to school since Sept. 1.
Arrested were Andrew Nicholas House, 17, of 1091 Clacktown Road, Winder; Alex Taylor DelValle, 18, of 644 Manning Gin Road, Monroe; Ramon Antonio Taveras, 17, of 213 Harvey Lokey Road, Bethlehem and Dessua Samuel Andrews, 19, of 1310 Keaton Drive, Winder. One of the five teens arrested in the incident was a juvenile.
Barrow County Sheriff’s Deputy Brett Maxwell, serving as a School Resource Officer at AHS, wrote in an arrest report that on Sept. 29, he was on duty monitoring school traffic when he received a call in reference to a fight in progress at about 3:30 p.m.
Maxwell responded to the front office when the fight had already separated. AHS principal Glenn Wilson told him a fight between five males had occurred in the bus ramp area. One teen had visible injuries on his face, according to the report.
Witnesses said one of the teens involved in the fight approached him and said, “Where are your boys?” Apparently, two teens started yelling back and forth at one another because one was looking in the vehicle of another. The altercation became physical when the owner of the car and his friend began to approach the other teens.
Read the full story in the Oct. 19 issue of the
Barrow Journal.
Training for the Georgia Penal System sounds more realistic. Thanks BOE and Wanda Creel for throwing my tax dollars to the wind. Ya'll make me sick.
Enrolling in a neighboring district requires a signed agreement between districts. Few districts are entering into any such agreements.
All of this was in the works when Saunders was here. It was in the paper and talked about in BOE plans. With the schools (AHS/WBHS) not making AYP this plan was sli
You may doubt my intelligence but not my concern or sincerity. and as far as anyone losing the facebook case it is not over and Creel is here only as long as the BOE is in place. We do have elections. McGee and Johnson will be missed. I am not a housewife and my daughter is a teacher.
I will say I usually do not blog but had to after reading yours.
You need to get your facts straight before lecturing others in this space.
How about working hard teaching and not crying how hard it is being a teacher, and quit thinking you guys are better then us working parents who come in work clothes straight from work to deal with our kids, you bunch of whining yuppie wanna bes
Fast action on their part kept the situation from getting any worse. Thank you AHS coaches and staff.
many of my school mates even some of the "bad' ones have turned out to be upstanding adults, some are in the penail system or the graveyard, yes it is unfortunate but violence and how to deal with it comes from experience and sometimes jail is not the answer.
You break the law you pay the piper.
You can bet that this wasn't the first time these kids "had issues." Students who fight are not arrested the first time unless there are special/unusual circumstances. For the safety of the other students, however, there is a point at which these students must suffer adult consequences.