High schooler's parent attempts to incite riot at high school over their kid's punishment

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Additional security will be on hand at Athens High School this week following an altercation between a parent, students and police that led to a lockdown and arrests on Wednesday.

Superintendent Trey Holladay said the altercation occurred after a group of five seniors were disciplined for an in-class incident that occurred Tuesday, punishment that included 20 days in-school suspension and barring them from the prom and graduation. School officials had met with the students’ parents to reevaluate the punishment, Holladay said, and it was during one of those meetings that a parent “decided to trespass to an area of the school where they cannot go.”

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“The parent started yelling and screaming in the hallways for them (students) to start rioting,” Holladay said, adding the incident occurred during a break time when many students were in the halls. The parent, he said, went past the school’s locked security system.

“That the reason the police were involved at that point,” he added. The parent and two students were arrested.

The students were charged with disorderly conduct and resisting arrest; the parent was charged with resisting arrest and assaulting a law enforcement officer.

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