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

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My sister taught at Southwood in the 70's. Craig Bradshaw was one of her students. Have the demographics flipped since then? They have at all the Baton Rouge public high schools, so I would assume the same for S'port.

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Big time, Southern Hills was majority white up until the late 90's. My dad and his family lived there before they moved back to Lafayette. He went to Southwood during the time period your sister taught there. Most of his friends from high school have either moved to Bossier or Desoto or the Dallas area.

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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