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May 8, 2007

Disruptive students bounced from school to school

Sarah Carr:

Before anyone could stop them, two boys stood on tables during a crowded lunch at Milwaukee's Bradley Tech High School this winter, flashing gang signs and chanting gang slogans.

Many of the students, who had been eating, chatting and milling about in the school's open atrium, cheered them on.

Quickly, the commotion grew.

The boys who caused the disruption were new to Tech. A few days before, they had been expelled from a suburban high school for fighting, said Tech Principal Ed Kovochich.

Shortly thereafter, they would be forced out of Tech, too - bounced to another MPS high school.

"The dance of the lemons," as Kovochich described it.

Teachers, administrators and social workers say the most violent or disruptive children are regularly moved from school to school.

Posted by Jim Zellmer at May 8, 2007 7:25 AM
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