Five teens arrested last week following Sept. 29 high school fight

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Monday, October 17. 2011
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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.
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#1 TickedOff on 10/17/11 at 11:52 AM [Reply]
College and Career Prepatory Academy, my butt.
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.
#2 alternative school is on 10/17/11 at 08:26 PM [Reply]
The alternative school is located at the old Barrow Board Office on Church Street. Pre penal system members. the CCPA is Creel and BOE's way of keeping kids in Barrow Co. We did not make AYP, so parents had to have a choice with the high schools. so they had to invent one in a building they could not afford to keep open last year and was in such bad shape it could not stay an elementary school. go figure.
#3 Get it Straight on 10/17/11 at 08:46 PM [Reply]
School Districts are NOT required to build or offer another school if the district's one or two high schools do not make AYP. Over 60% of our state's high schools did not make AYP. Do you really think they are offering an alternative? NO, no, no. If that is how Creel justified this new school, she mislead the BOE and community. Most school districts in this state only have one high school. And, after that high school did not make AYP, there is still only one high school in those districts (Banks, Madison, Olgethorpe, White, Lumpkin, Towns, Rabun, Habersham)...the list can go on and on.
Enrolling in a neighboring district requires a signed agreement between districts. Few districts are entering into any such agreements.
#3.1 Anonymous on 10/17/11 at 09:04 PM [Reply]
Banks County High School made AYP,was actually in the top 25 percent of high schools.
#3.2 they are right on 10/17/11 at 09:09 PM [Reply]
If you doubt this, call or email the State Department of Education.
#4 check again on 10/17/11 at 08:58 PM [Reply]
If the district in which your child is enrolled and they do not make AYP for 2 or 3 years, the district HAS to provide that student an alternative is requested. Go back and read the NCLB law.
#4.1 correct on 10/17/11 at 09:13 PM [Reply]
You are correct. the new high school for academics only was slated to be build in the Statham area.
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
#5 Monroe? on 10/17/11 at 09:20 PM [Reply]
How is a Monroe resident enrolled as a student at Apalachee High School?
#5.1 Barrow County Cities on 10/18/11 at 01:38 AM [Reply]
Monroe city creeps over the county line, just as Hoschton, Braselton are shared with Jackson County. Auburn is shared with Gwinnett.
#6 Monroe Student at AHS - Oh NO..... on 10/17/11 at 09:46 PM [Reply]
Really?...this blog makes some of you feel intelligent. Research AYP, go to the BOE meetings, get involved in schools for the right reasons, you will enjoy this county so much more when you realize the positives instead of using this newspaper online blog as a way to express feelings and show a lack of intelligence. For months you have complained about Creel (she is still here), facebook case results (you lost), administration at WBHS and AHS (McGee left but the school is still in the business of education), Mr. Johnson (a great man who would like to be a superintendent), teachers at WBHS and AHS (they spend more time with your children than you do), you need to take up a new hobby other than bashing the county schools. Watch Desperate Housewives - you may not be housewife, but you are desperate!
#6.1 feel better? on 10/18/11 at 05:34 AM [Reply]
It does, 2. I have 3.I do and 4.I am.
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.
#6.2 Observer on 10/19/11 at 06:13 AM [Reply]
One more thing....parents should not be so quick to judge...Some times schools do not make AYP due to attendance or tardies and that is not Creel's fault....hmmmm that would be the parents. Guidelines are being passed down from the state, counties have to follow them, your rude and critical comments are being aimed at the wrong person. All teachers in this state are under stress, the testing is out of control, let teachers teach BUT this is not the fault of the county they are in. Look closer to the state.
#6.2.1 boowho on 10/19/11 at 06:19 AM [Reply]
teacher eye single parents mostly us men with disdain, even one time had the sheriff called because while waitin I had my three year old playing school staff stopped me and I said if its a problem we wont be on the playground, those hardworking teachers said no problem but my daughter wanted to leave the teachers blocked my car in and Sheriff shoowed up even though I commited no crime, had to show my license custody papers and then the deputy searched my car.
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
#6.2.1.1 wrong on 10/19/11 at 07:06 AM [Reply]
You are so wrong. teachers are in awe, esp. elem. of single fathers raising their children. they work so hard to do what is best. Say what you please, but those teachers had your child's best interest at heart and are required by LAW to take care of the situation.
#6.2.2 actually on 10/19/11 at 06:32 AM [Reply]
It is not the state but the federal law NCLB that has being tardy student and teacher absent days counting in AYP. Agreed that is not Creel. But her behavior toward and in situations concerning the school system is met with unbecoming behavior that she is enough to only display to those she has working under her. She will tell school one thing and the BOE another. that is her fault. Unless you work for her you have no idea.
#7 Anonymous on 10/17/11 at 11:20 PM [Reply]
might be desperate but it does not change the fact Creel is NOT Superintendent material and should not have that job!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
#7.1 so true on 10/18/11 at 07:08 AM [Reply]
Oh so very true.
#8 theres on 10/18/11 at 01:52 AM [Reply]
also a federal law that allows displaced students to remain in school they were in due to family issues
#8.1 that is a good thing on 10/18/11 at 05:36 AM [Reply]
That is a good thing. These kids can't help the situations in which they find themselves.
#9 wow on 10/18/11 at 06:11 AM [Reply]
We have five students embroiled in a fight at AHS and one blog leads to the discussion of the school system instead of what a mess this is. The system is in a mess however I think by reading the article, the adults at AHS took the school back over and addressed this incident.
Fast action on their part kept the situation from getting any worse. Thank you AHS coaches and staff.
#10 2 weeks on 10/18/11 at 06:58 AM [Reply]
You mean to tell me it took two weeks to have these kids arrested?
#11 theres on 10/18/11 at 09:37 AM [Reply]
ok fights happen I dont think utting kids in the justice sstem is alway or even mostly the answer, I grew up in an inner city, fights happened, mostly it is llearning curve, even after school fights happen in the workplace and in public learning to deal with aggression takes dealing with aggression.
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.
#11.1 Zero tolarance on 10/18/11 at 09:39 AM [Reply]
There are no ok fights on the school yard.
#11.2 matbe on 10/18/11 at 09:40 AM [Reply]
Maybe you do not know the history of some of the kids and haw many breaks they have been given.
You break the law you pay the piper.
#12 theres on 10/18/11 at 09:53 AM [Reply]
ok send them to the reform school make parents drive and pick them up. I dont know anything about these kids, I do know youth dentention is training camp and lot of those placed there go on to be worse offenders then what they get sent for
#12.1 and some on 10/18/11 at 04:24 PM [Reply]
and some come out vowing new to return and don't.
#12.2 Anonymous on 10/18/11 at 07:03 PM [Reply]
Reform school? Sir, you're in Winder. Their parents pick them up? We can't even get most kids' parents on the telephone, much less "make" them come fetch their kid after a fight.

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.
#13 TickedOff on 10/18/11 at 05:24 PM [Reply]
Dang Mike are you gonna allow all your staff writers to "not allow comments to their entries" Seems the rhetoric has really toned down since your little speech. With exception of a few nuts. And we were having so much fun.
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