From: Anarch666-AT-aol.com
Date: Fri, 5 Feb 1999 18:43:42 EST
Subject: Re: Daily Bleed: 2/1 LANGSTON HUGHES


In a message dated 2/5/99 9:40:07 AM Central Standard Time,
rugosa-AT-interport.net writes:

> which high school?
 A lovely gem of a place called Caddo Magnet High. We're supposedly the best
and safest high school in the state of Louisiana. Our school is located smack
dab in the middle of the ghetto. Not a good place for a school mostly full of
loud mouthed, upper middle class white kids. It pisses me off that SO many of
them crack jokes about the ghetto people. I'll admit that I've made a few too,
but these fully corrupted nazis piss me off. Anyway, here's a few facts about
my school:
-We are one of the three schools in the state that have a lacrosse team
-Our soccer team has been the best in the state for 5 years running.
-We have no conventional sports (baseball, football, or basketball)
-We are one of the very few schools anywhere in the states with a fencing
team, and the ONLY high school team allowed to train in the Olympic training
center in Colorado. Three of our senior fencers are certified coaches in at
least one weapon.
-Most of the teenage actors and actresses in Shreveport come from our Drama
Classes
-Classes in most useful foreign languages (I'm taking French. We also have
German, Spanish, Russian, Italian, Latin, and Japanese.)
-More scholarship cash goes to my school than any other in the state.
_Finally, we have administrators and teachers who are pretty lax with the
rules. Or least we USED to have that. Recently, the administration has been
going downhill. We've been getting a lot of static with the dress code lately,
plus the censorship with our anarchist/activist flyers, as well as recent
attempts to censor our school newspaper. That last note may not hold true for
long though. The articles in question deal with the sex ed program, as well as
the problem that some students are having with the neighborhood people
(students driving too fast before and after school, and the fact that some of
the neighborhood elementary students throwing rocks at the soccer players
during practice. Naturally, our players shit bricks, and chased off the kids,
who later returned with their older brothers and started picking fights). One
of my friends on the newspaper staff talked to our principal, and she said
she'd ask the school board if they could legally print the articles. Other
than the aforementioned problems, our school is pretty decent. We don't have
the typical high school popularity thing; everybody has their own little
clique. There are a few people who are just all around nice guys and are
outspoken enough to the point that the other 1200 people know who they are. In
my clique, I'm basically the only guy. There's me, Jennifer, Ginny, Maggie,
Tara, Allie and Liz. Other than us, there are a few other people who chill
with us a lot, but aren't in the core group all the time. I'm pretty well
known to my class, mostly cause all my teachers like me, and I'm known for my
generosity with cash (In other words, I give it away if I don't really need
it). A lot of juniors know me, and about half the freshmen know me, or least
know who I am. I only know a few seniors. I don't really like all that, but I
can't resent it either, cause it means I've got plenty of allies available
should the need arise. Also, for some strange reason, my name is scrawled onto
one of the girl's bathroom's walls. I don't see myself as extremely
attractive, but I guess some others do....Oh well, at least I'm not like this
guy named Donald Mellenger; Damn near everyone in Shreveport knows that
motherfucker!
Chris