re: Southwood High School (Shreveport) - Dad’s show up; violence goes down

White flight across the Red River to Bossier has been massive. Good to see these dads are taking the lead here. Should happen everywhere.

According to the story, they want to go statewide.

Honestly, I would bet money that the majority of the 23 people arrested come from fatherless homes.

Some of those brawls are probably territory related (small time drug gangs) and that's just the direction many of these kids living in high crime areas, with no father in their life turns to.

Give those dads props. Its important to have that kind of male presence.

That’s awesome. I know a lot of people have made comments about black families, and these dads are aware. If everyone was honest with themselves, they’d realize that almost every school in the US couple use something like this.

Most educators are women, but similar to home life, kids need men around them also.

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My sister taught at Southwood in the 70's. Craig Bradshaw was one of her students.

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I might have been in your sister's class Bradshaw and I were in the same class, same football team from 5th grade till graduating Southwood, it was a great school, good kids from good families, Summer Grove and Southern Hills were awesome areas at the time, not so much anymore, when SHS first opened, the only blacks we had were from Keithville and they were "normal" people, just regular students, athletes, band members, etc., when they divided up the districts a second time to bring more integration we began to get the Mooretown blacks, who were a little more thuggish, but it was still an awesome place for a public school, I still play golf with Bradshaw, I'll tell him he made the OT, his fragile ego needs things like that

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Yep. I graduated from Byrd in 1997

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My daughter lives in Keithville. Her oldest does to Benton, youngest will go to Byrd.

If not, I'll bring her back here for another year. The school system there is disgusting.