Dallas School Held Cage Fights

Principal Donald Moten, and other staff members at South Oak Cliff High School, allegedly sent troubled students into a steel utility cage in an athletic locker room to battle out disputes with bare fists. Documents obtained by The Dallas Morning News say the "cage fights" took place between 2003 and 2005 but don't say how many fights there were. "It was gladiator-style entertainment for the staff," said Frank Hammond, a middle school counselor in Cedar Hill who was fired from South Oak Cliff High School and has filed a whistleblower lawsuit. "They were taking these boys downstairs to fight. And it was sanctioned by the principal and security." Better that our children learn the rules of Thunderdome now before the great pocsaclypse than have to learn them when they visit Barter Town.