Osvaldo Sombo was a fierce football player at Butler High School in Matthews, North Carolina up until a few days ago.
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Recently the school board passed a much stricter dress code that was intended to make the kids look more professional and be less distracted during school. Sounds simple enough. Bizarre piercings, provocative clothing and the sort surely do create a slight distraction. After all, that’s why people do it, to get attention.
The school board wanted the attention on the work at hand, so the new dress code was put in place.
Then came the cheerleader moms. Cheerleader moms are the fiercest and most feared animal in the high school sports arena. They were having no part of making their daughters being robbed of their chance to wear provocative short skirts to school on game day. So they went to the principal and demanded that their daughters be able to continue to “display” themselves on game days as an exception to the rule that was good enough for the “regular” students.
Well, as expected, the principal caved and now people are pissed. On game days, girls that are not cheerleaders will be sent home if they wear identical type clothing as the cheerleaders do.
So the logic must be that cheerleaders legs are not as distracting as “regular” girls legs, OR that administrators are willing to let the studies suffer because team spirit is more important than the schoolwork that was such a priority that a new dress code had to be implemented in the first place.
He was killed Thursday afternoon when the truck he was riding in lost control on a gravel road striking a fence and eventually a tree. Fitzpatrick was trapped inside the truck for two and a half hours before rescue workers could extricate him. He was pronounced dead at the scene.
His friend and fellow football player Dennis Eddleman was driving the 2000 Ford F-150 when he lost control. Police beleive that Eddleman was traveling at an unsafe speed for a gravel road. Both players were wearing their seatbelts at the time of the crash and the airbags had deployed. Eddleman has been treated and released form a local hospital with minor injuries.
Fitzpatrick was known for being a big hitter on the football field and his teammates called him “FitzHammer” because at less than 140 pounds he would hit anybody and keep bouncing up.
Jordan Day was a very good golfer that played for Lakota East High School in Liberty Township, Ohio.
He was killed in a high speed crash on August 12th, and now the coroners office is ruling the accident intentional, and therefore citing the official manner of death as suicide.
During the investigation, authorities discovered that Day had told friends minutes before his death that he intended to harm himself. Shortly after talking to his friends, Day drove his car into a concrete wall at 130 miles per hour.
He was arrested Thursday and charged with online solicitation of a minor. Coach Harvill has known he was under investigation sor some time, as police had seized his home computer on August 18th.
Coach Harvill is believed to have been behind a text message sent out after his arrest that said “Today i was arrested for online solicitation of a minor. I want you to know three things – 1) i have never touched or made a pass at a kid, 2) nothing I said online was with the intent of solicitation – I am sure it will be blown out of proportion by the media but that is their job, 3) this has been the most awful experience of my life.”
The Texas Attorney Generals Office alleged that “Harvill initiated and conducted sexually graphic online chats with someone he thought was a 14-year-old girl,” “The ‘girl’ was actually an undercover police officer with the Cyber Crimes Unit.”
Harvill has been placed on administrative leave by the school district pending the results of the investigation.
She had her collarbone broken the other day during a very bizarre annual ritual where students gather mud from a pond and sling it at each other. Seems innocent enough unless the pond is too small and too many kids are fighting there way to the mud.
Megan Taylor was just a bit too close to the mud pit and got trampled, landing her in the hospital with a broken collarbone, but it could have been much worse according to witnesses.
Kickapoo High might want to reevaluate this tradition before someone dies.
Osvaldo Sombo was a fierce football player at Butler High School in Matthews, North Carolina up until a few days ago.
The story began when Sombo was arrested for rape charges back on August 11th. For obvious reasons, Sombo didn’t tell the coaching staff of the Butler Bulldogs, but the court system did.
The court system as a matter of routine sent the school district a letter informing them of Sombos arrest and pending charges one full week BEFORE he was allowed to play a big part in their season opener.
Sombo has since been transferred to an alternative school and conversely is ineligible to play for Butler until the charges are reviewed further.
The debate in Matthews is more about the inability or unwillingness of the school district to take swift action in such a serious matter.
Perhaps this incident alone wouldn’t be drawing as much attention if the school was not already immersed in controversy. Just a few weeks ago the school principal Theresa Hopkins was removed because of “a personnel investigation” according to school officials. They have further said she will not return to the school regardless of the outcome. They have yet to divulge any more details in that matter.
Back in May of this year, the school board removed girls basketball coach Stephanie Butler for recruiting violations right after she won a state basketball championship.
Christian LeMay was the star quarterback that led the Bulldogs football team to a state championship in 2009. He was suspended from playing through October for an unspecified “code of conduct” violation.
September 3, 2010 : Justin Fitzpatrick of Sapulpa killed in accident
September 3, 2010 : Jordan Day of Lakota East death ruled a suicide
September 3, 2010 : Jay Harvill of Mansfield arrested in sting
September 1, 2010 : Megan Taylor of Kickapoo injured in mud slinging contest?
August 31, 2010 : Osvaldo Sombo and the Butler High fiasco
Lake Brantley High School in Altamonte Springs, Florida has a bit of a controversy on its hands.
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