Students stabbed at Clear Brook High School
Well, no it wasn't Columbine, but it was enough to send parents scrambling. Clearly, this is not your father's high school experience.
Two students were stabbed at Clear Brook High School this morning, shutting down the Friendswood school for hours as ambulances rushed the boys to the hospital and deputies took two students into custody. Hundreds of anxious parents descended on the school to pick up their kids.
An altercation apparently took place as students changed classes at 9:20 a.m., and two boys were rushed to Memorial Hermann Hospital. Clear Brook Principal Caryl Wilson told worried parents sequestered in the school auditorium this morning that the wounds did not appear to be life-threatening and that the parents of all of those involved had been notified.
Eighteen-year-old witness Courtney Burroughs, a senior, said the most seriously injured of the two victims was lying in a pool of blood in the hallway and had to be taken away on a stretcher. She said the other boy was stabbed twice in the back and was bandaged up by the school nurse before being taken to the hospital....
Captain Jay Jackson of the Galveston County Sheriff's Department said the dispute may have been over the theft of a purse at the school on Tuesday.
Burroughs said one of the victims told her while in the nurse's office that he and some friends had "faced off" with other youths in a car on Tuesday. That encounter ended with the other driver waving a gun and threatening him, the boy told her....
The sheriff department's Jackson assured about 200 parents waiting for their kids in the school auditorium that "within minutes of the altercation, your students were safe and secure."
You know, when I was in high school (back when I had to walk 10 miles uphill both ways through driving snow), the worst violence we ever had to worry about was a snowball fight. My high school had 2000+ students, but no one brought a gun, or a knife, or any other sort of weapon to school with them. I'm not naive enough to believe that I grew up in a violence-free environment, but the atmosphere in today's schools are clearly different from what existed in my day.
From what I can see, it sucks to be a teenager today. As a teenager, I used to think that my life sucked, but I never had to deal with the type of violence, the ready availability of sex and pornography, and the temptations of all sorts. When I look at Eric, I can't help but be thankful for the manner in which he seems to deal with it all. I'm not at all certain that I would have done it nearly as well.
