All this talk about new high schools and redistricting has gotten me thinking:
Are we even ready to do this?
Because I have a feeling that we are not.
Cross Keys High School students were redistricted to Chamblee Charter High School this year, and while many students have said they’ve received a “warm welcome,” many students have experienced quite the opposite.
The above picture was sent to me by a former student from Cross Keys High School. Kids have been experiencing this kind of treatment for weeks now. People constantly ask them “Do you even speak English?” or “So you’re from Cross Keys, right? Are you Mexican?”
Several kids have even told CKHS students, “Cross Keys kids are ruining our reputation.”
So what did our Cross Keys students do? Contrary to what some individuals (see post below) might fear, no “gangs” retaliated. No fights were started. The students collectively wrote a letter to Dr. Norman Sauce, principal of Chamblee Charter High School.
Why does this kind of attitude exist within certain students? I can only speculate, but I can’t help but think that our children are not as oblivious as we might believe they are. Many parents have open discussions with each other, their friends, and perhaps even with their own children. If these conversations are anything like what flies around on the Facebook groups, then we have a lot of work to do to undo the damage that we are causing to our children and to our society.
The other day, a parent asked me what I thought about redistricting and new high schools. She wanted to know if I still thought we should “integrate” (for lack of a softer word) our schools given the experiences our students have been having at Chamblee HS.
My simple answer: yes, we should still integrate and redistrict.
We cannot continue to gerrymander school attendance zones and to segregate out certain groups. We have to stop moving out of school districts when students who qualify for free-or-reduced lunch get zoned for our “neighborhood school.” We have to move into neighborhoods that have racial and social diversity. We have to stop bad-mouthing certain people groups in front of our children.
We have to change our minds and our hearts.
If we don’t, then we are never going to solve the issues of racial and socioeconomic inequality. Our kids are doomed to fall into the same racist, prejudiced, and classist ways if we do not begin to act like the progressive adults we would like to think we are.
We can read books, peruse blogs, and attend focus groups on race and class ad nauseam, but until we are willing to confront these issues at the local school and within our neighborhoods, we will continue to repeat the same destructive cycle.
Why are our Cross Keys students experiencing the same kind of treatment that many Blacks faced when they integrated schools years ago? Because people haven’t changed as much as we would like to think that they have.
I know that CCHS has wonderful teachers, administrators, and students – I’ve met and enjoyed friendships with many of them. By no means is this meant as a condemnation of you or your work. (I’m sure many of you who have been welcoming are unaware this is even happening.) I know that CCHS is actually a diverse high school (e.g. in 2014, the student population at Chamblee Charter High School was 25% Caucasian, 46% African American, 14% Hispanic, 11% Asian, and 4% Biracial).
This is meant, however, as a wake-up call to those of us who are tempted to think that our children are not picking up on these disparaging comments and sentiments.
This is also meant as a call to Chamblee Charter High School: please be aware that your students and (unfortunately) some of your faculty are giving CCHS a worse name than the CK kids who have transferred there. Please address this issue swiftly.
Lastly, lest we think that avoiding redistricting is the answer, we need to create schools that allow students from all walks of life, from every race, from every religion, from every language to grow up together. Perhaps then we can actually begin to see each other as friends and equals, deserving of our respect and love.
Georgian Educator 
September 23, 2016 at 12:00 am
Rebekah, you need to be very careful about slandering an entire school based on the actions of a few. Specifically, your tweet “Chamblee Charter HS Students Welcome Cross Keys HS Students with Racist & Obscene Comments” crosses a line; it is unnecessarily and childishly sarcastic, and I think you need to back off the accusatory generalizations. I am a Chamblee parent, and I do not appreciate your painting CCHS community as unwelcoming and racist. You are insulting the many intelligent, compassionate, giving, and compassionate KIDS who go to Chamblee.
Dr. Sauce worked all summer to make special efforts to welcome the students from CKHS and make their transition as smooth as possible. He brought in counselors at additional cost during the summer to get their schedules worked out so that their first weeks at school wouldn’t be burdened with schedule issues. He arranged for transportation from CKHS to and from CCHS events from the time the announcement was made. Every communication from the school, whether phone or email, is now released in English and Spanish. I can’t believe some students are complaining about people trying to speak Spanish to them when all they are trying to do is try to be welcoming. Did you even try to talk to anyone to get the CCHS side of things before you wrote this post? Did you even care to get information on everything CCHS administration and staff has done to accommodate the new students?
CCHS students and faculty do not need your lectures on socioeconomic inequality, racial divides and such. Those issues existed well before CKHS students were welcomed at CCHS, and they exist at almost every DCSD school. It is a daily lesson and struggle at almost every metro Atlanta school.
And before you lecture the CCHS community about needing to redistrict more CKHS students, would you please share how many students opted to stay at CKHS rather than come to CCHS because they wanted to stay with their friends and community members? Sometimes when a community wants to stay together, it is what it is.
Obviously there are some students who need to be punished for their overtly racist statements and vandalism, but those kids exist everywhere in every school. My opinion of you has been seriously impacted by this inflammatory post and Tweet. While it is definitely an issue, you could have worded and presented this problem in a much different and much less pointed manner. I am very disappointed that a community leader such as you actually published this. Shame on you for making this entire process even more difficult by being accusatory and condescending to the CCHS community.
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September 23, 2016 at 2:45 am
“CCHS students and faculty do not need your lectures on socioeconomic inequality, racial divides and such. Those issues existed well before CKHS students were welcomed at CCHS, and they exist at almost every DCSD school. It is a daily lesson and struggle at almost every metro Atlanta school.”
I’m Chamblee alumn and I agreed with mostly everything you said but this paragraph was unnecessary. You talk as if the issue of racial divide shouldn’t be brought up just because it’s always been an issue. It’s not a lesson, it’s demotivating and makes students feel restricted in their capabilities as future workers. It should be brought up, and not just for extreme cases. The school’s assistant principles and faculty have all of the time in the world to enforce the rules that sometimes don’t even make sense, so why ignore racially related bullying? I do agree this article was very biased against CCHS due to it’s lack of information from the CCHS community itself, but don’t undermine these issues.
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September 23, 2016 at 6:58 am
Bob, we are in agreement. Any racist actions such as these need to be dealt with – I said as much. Dr. Sauce is a decisive, fair, and tough leader, and had Ms. Morris taken 5 minutes to talk to him, she would have realized as much and might have been able to present a more thoughtful post on the situation and what Dr. Sauce plans to do. What doesn’t help a situation is for a teacher and community leader to post a one-sided, accusatory post alienating the community that she will most likely need to work closely with in the coming years with redistricting and other area initiatives. What could have been a great post about whether racist actions against the Hispanic community are taken less seriously than those against African-Americans or a post digging into the social and emotional risks of the school system’s upcoming population balancing initiative via middle and high school building and redistricting was instead, well, what she published. Posts like this will divide communities, not unite them.
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September 23, 2016 at 10:25 am
Look I know how this might seem, but then again every time says something about Cross Keys the two words that are common are “immigrants” and “gangs” almost never will you hear someone say “oh, the kids from Cross Keys are kind students that just want to pursue their dreams” no, it’s always negavtive comments they get, when reality they are all nice and welcoming students. The principal will stand outside in the mornings and shake the students hands as they get off the buss with a friendly good morning. For announcements he give them a “food for thought” a motivational quote.
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September 23, 2016 at 10:46 am
Jennifer, the first thing I think when I hear “Cross Keys High School” is “they need and deserve a brand new school”, and I have for years. I don’t think anything about race or gangs, and most people whose child attends a very diverse school in DeKalb probably feel the same way because most schools in DeKalb are very, very racially and socieconomically diverse.
CKHS has gotten a complete screw job by the county for so many years. Now that the county is actually paying attention to massive population shifts and the horrendous situation that thousands of students are in with trailers and lack of AC, etc., one of the proposed solutions would put more of the CKHS zoned children into CCHS. The last thing needed is a divisive post like this from within CKHS. Instead the community leaders should be reaching out and working together, not pointing fingers.
I’m sure there are CCHS students who feel like their school is being negatively impacted by new students from another area, but I know personally that every effort has been made to the student body and parent community to make that transition smooth. The CCHS principal hosted multiple open forums to alleviate people’s concerns, and those forums revealed that the biggest concern was a drain on already tight resources, not gangs or anything related to race. People were standing up and being very honest, and not one person expressed concerns about race (again, because CCHS is already very diverse – taking in CKHS kids didn’t change that). This post really paints CCHS in an exclusionary light, as if leadership has been aware of this problem and ignores it. That just isn’t the case.
Again, this post could have been very productive and inspiring. It could have also been a good heads up to the county to do more research on the possibilities of this type of situation ALL OVER THE COUNTY as they blend different communities via schools. But it was not.
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September 23, 2016 at 6:46 pm
“Amy” What I took from this post was that WE ALL, adults and students need to be more mindful of what we say in front of all people. I understood this to mean that when we potentially cavalierly make comments, our kids are listening. And we need to be more conscious of that as a whole. I also find your reaction to be completely defensive…which makes me wonder why. I wonder what you are hiding that relates to this conversation. Usually that means there is something someone is not saying, hearing, or not willing to admit to one’s self.
And….it’s not polite to walk up to new kids you don’t know and “speak spanish” to them. It doesn’t sound like those students were speaking appropriately regardless of the language. “Maybe they were just trying to be welcoming” Or they were taught to be judgemental.
School culture is a huge issue that no one really seems to want to fully address. We need to spend more time on school culture, actually provide school counseling (not JUST bring in counselors for scheduling, which as a school counselor myself is insulting because there is more to the job than that, though many probably don’t do the other needed counseling based tasks) and completely overhauling school discipline.
Did anyone notice that the student who were actually insulted, wrote a more poised note than Amy did here?
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September 23, 2016 at 7:08 am
For anyone new to this post, Ms. Morris has already edited portions of this post and the title to tone down her language.
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September 23, 2016 at 7:57 am
Yes, I changed the title to “some”.
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September 23, 2016 at 10:53 am
I’m a Crosskeys graduate class of 2014.
Ck is such a diverse school, I’m an African American and never had any problems with anyone of a different ethnic background or race. The thing about CK and anything in this matter is you shouldn’t talk about something you don’t know. My school has changed the many years it’s been around. The ck experience is like traveling across the world, you meet so many different people from places you probably didn’t know existed, and the teacher’s make sure the students are comfortable being around languages they might not understand. It’s a beautiful place, let’s just disregard the fact that Chamblee was on lock down for someone allegedly selling weapons. To conclude CK is a family not just a place of learning. Don’t talk down about CK like it’s a bad place, Chamblee is not perfect either. Any school who welcomes new students with any kind of racism ain’t a good school,Stay Woke.
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September 23, 2016 at 11:31 am
No one is saying anything bad about CKHS; in fact, quite the opposite. The school that is being slandered is CCHS. Does nothing negative or embarrassing ever happen at CKHS? Would you like those isolated incidents to be published to paint your school as a dangerous, racist place? Probably not.
Your comments are the exact reason that posts like this are dangerous. You seized the opportunity to throw in additional negative comments and innuendos about CCHS for no reason. Your response simply throws more gasoline on this fire.
I am happy that you love your CKHS community – all students need to feel a part of a community. That is why I have advocated for an overcrowding solution that keeps communities together instead of splintering them across several schools. I sat in multiple sessions with engaged CKHS parents who love their teachers, parents, and kids and (rightly) speak out for facilities that match the quality of the kids within. Those parents (who were engaged enough to attend multiple sessions) wanted a large high school that could contain what they consider their CKHS family and allow for growth and continued access to the programs you have now.
DeKalb has a lot of work to do on balancing opportunities and creating equity across schools. Tearing down other communities does nothing to accomplish that goal.
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September 23, 2016 at 12:28 pm
Lol I agree. I’m guessing that the person in the photo that said, “I wouldn’t want my kids going to ck..” is considered nobody talking bad about ck.
CK has been on the news for things not to be proud about, I didn’t say I was against Chamblee, I have friends from that school.
Just know this built up frustration is fuled by the constant bashing of the CK name, I’m 100% with ck,and over the years people are always saying bad things about it. My first comment is more of a follow up of what this post is about, from my perspective. And yeah I’m an arson when it comes to keeping a good name for ck, because of school spirit.
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September 23, 2016 at 12:46 pm
Keep up the good school spirit and pride in how far you’ve made it and where you’re headed!
There isn’t one school in DeKalb that hasn’t had something like this happen – where a student or group of students acted in a way that most parents and families in that community would never. I have had children in 5 DeKalb schools, and I can remember incidents similar to this in all of them (3 of those 5 schools not in the CCHS cluster).
I challenge Rebekah to remove this post until she can talk to someone in leadership at Chamblee. I am not opposed to using social media, blogs, and the news media to highlight problems (sometimes that is the only way to get attention), but, generally, it’s more fair and reasonable to give the other side an opportunity to right the wrong before allowing them to be bashed online.
The comments in this post are going to continue to be defenses of CKHS and CCHS without a whole lot of productivity because of the way the conversation was started. A restart would benefit everyone.
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September 23, 2016 at 12:12 pm
Former Cross Keys students are the target of racism at Chamblee and you guys are going after Rebekah, a CKHS teacher, for being biased on her blog? This is a blog, not a newspaper. You Chamblee folks feel maligned because Rebekah is exposing how Chamblee students (excuse me, make that some Chamblee students) are treating the former CK students in disgustingly hateful ways? I guess I can understand why some Chamblee folks are upset by this blog posting. You don’t like to see people shine a critical light on your school. I guess now you know how the Cross Keys community feels when our students are referred to as anchor babies or gang members. You’ll have to excuse my bias; I’ve taught at Cross Keys for over 15 years, and my students are the sweetest, most respectful, hardest working kids around. I am constantly amazed by them.
No school is perfect. Does Cross Keys have areas where it needs to improve? Absolutely. But let’s give credit where credit is due. Cross Keys does an extraordinary job creating a welcoming, inclusive atmosphere. No faculty is perfect, but most teachers care deeply about our students’ lives and are committed to seeing them succeed. No school administration is perfect, but our administrators do their best to do right by our students.
I am also constantly amazed by Rebekah Morris, a phenomenal woman who wears so many hats besides teacher and blogger. I don’t know how she does it; she’s like the Hermione Granger of teaching so maybe she has a time turner or something. Nobody has our kids’ back like she does.
Last year after the redistricting was announced, a student slated to move said, “I don’t want to go to Chamblee. It’s racist there.” I was surprised. I didn’t think it would be that bad for our kids. Sadly, it seems that some Chamblee students have proven this to be true. Like it or not, Chamblee, that’s the reputation you have. It kind of stinks, doesn’t it, to have a reputation that you think is undeserved?
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September 23, 2016 at 12:20 pm
Proving my point yet again – raising your school up while denigrating others that you don’t know. Mocking the very needed correction that painted ALL CCHS students as racist to “some”. That is very mature and productive.
You’ll have to excuse me, but CCHS students are the sweetest, most respectful, hardest working kids around. I am constantly amazed by them.
Posts like this won’t result in anything but very negative feelings between communities that are next to each other. Rebekah may be a hardworking teacher and community advocate, but her delivery needs work. If her goal is divisiveness and arguing and ugliness, she got it, and you just proved it.
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September 23, 2016 at 3:54 pm
I like you CK Teacher and I am with you.
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September 23, 2016 at 12:41 pm
Wow, both Rebekah Morris and CK Teacher should not be in a classroom. This is slanderous and untruthful information and unacceptable to be peddled by a DCS employee, much less a teacher. Ms. Morris does not have the facts nor does she have the ability to make these broad generalizations.
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September 23, 2016 at 12:54 pm
Amy,
I am not trying to raise CK up by bringing Chamblee down. Rebekah provided concrete proof that there’s a problem with racism at Chamblee. That’s undeniable. If it paints Chamblee in a bad light it’s the fault of these racist students not Rebekah. Isn’t it better to address it now and raise awareness so that things don’t escalate like they did at Lakeside? (I’m referring to the student who tweeted a confederate flag in Lakeside’s colors.)
There seems to be more outrage from the Chamblee community at Rebekah’s approach than at the incidents she writes about. That’s very telling.
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September 23, 2016 at 1:04 pm
Actually if you read my posts in their entirety, you would see they all mention that these acts are not acceptable. No one is defending these racist actions, nor does anyone think they should go unaddressed.
Of COURSE our issue with this is her approach. This isn’t a news story – it is opinion and, as such, there are numerous ways she could have presented this. She did not talk to anyone at CCHS. She titled the story and the tweet sarcastically with “CCHS Students Welcome CKHS students…” Really? “Welcome”? She has since removed her tweet and edited the title. It’s pretty obvious she realizes her approach wasn’t the best, so there’s no need to defend it.
Give CCHS leadership the opportunity to explain what they are doing instead of throwing a torch into a dumpster. Race issues and the fact that these communities will need to work together in the coming years to address overcrowding are VITAL and sensitive issues that Rebekah is well aware of and knew she would be igniting with this post. Did she envision CKHS and CCHS students holding hands and singing Kumbaya after this post?
A more mature approach would have been to take this information (that, again, I do not dispute happened) to CCHS leadership, give them a chance to address it, and then “report” on the entire situation, including what I’m sure would be decisive action by CCHS administration. As written, this is not an altruistic post to stop racism in DeKalb County.
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September 23, 2016 at 3:23 pm
Rebekah can write whatever she wants on this blog because it is HER opinion based on her experience. If you have a different opinion, cool. Start a new blog or comment, you are entitled to your opinion and she is entitled to hers. End of story. Another idea? Don’t read her blog if you don’t like it.
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September 23, 2016 at 3:26 pm
Wow, you’re a problem solver. Rebekah purports herself to be a community activist and publishes her blog to the public with open comments; therefore, I am entitled to comment on it. If you don’t like my comments, don’t read them.
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September 23, 2016 at 3:38 pm
Exactly what I had just said. You can comment and she can write. I am glad we are in agreement, Amy.
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September 23, 2016 at 4:29 pm
No, what you implied is that I should not be commenting negatively about this post, and I should not read the blog if I don’t agree with it; if my opinions differ from Rebekah’s, I should go somewhere else instead of commenting. So, which is it? Do I need your permission to post? And are there restrictions from you on what I can post because it sounds like there are.
I haven’t expressed to anyone here that they aren’t allowed to post or that they don’t have the right to their own opinion. I have not personally criticized Rebekah or anyone else, I haven’t called her any names, and I haven’t told her she isn’t allowed to have a blog. I have expressed strong disagreement with Rebekah’s post’s tone and content. If disagreement isn’t allowed, then the comments should be closed, and the communication should be one-way.
Friends of Rebekah can certainly defend her, and, unlike you, I haven’t said they shouldn’t be here. From what I knew of Rebekah before this post, she is a pretty open person, a hard worker, very honest, and likes to try to resolve big problems. In fact, I have stood up at a countywide meeting and told the superintendent face-to-face that our county is very lucky to have her in response to the videos she posted last year.
My personal opinion is that this post was in striking contrast to that impression of Rebekah and what she has posted in the past, an opinion to which I am entitled to have and to share. I don’t have to start my own blog to express that.
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September 23, 2016 at 3:43 pm
Former CCHS student (class of 2016) here. @Amy, I can assure you nothing would happen if Rebekah went to the CCHS administration first. There were literally kids writing death threats on the bathroom walls last year (see http://chamblee.11alive.com/news/news/1868622-chamblee-school-bans-backpacks-after-threats), and not one person was ever implicated. I vividly recall a day when at least 40% of my peers failed to show up to school due to safety fears, but I can’t recall anyone ever facing justice for the chaos that was caused. I highly doubt some racist remarks on the wall would raise much concern (though I’m sure they would all feign how much they care with a nice PR statement release).
I agree with you that not all of Chamblee is bad, and I respect your efforts to stick up for my alma mater. I made a lot of great, intelligent friends, and I have no doubt that it prepared me for college life. But please don’t try and paint the administration or the DeKalb Cartel as heroes. While the administration was twiddling its thumbs, I was warning my peers that these kinds of actions would continue so long as nobody was ever held accountable. Sadly, it appears that I was right.
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September 23, 2016 at 4:06 pm
I appreciate your point of view, and I, too, was in the building when several of those threatening remarks were discovered written in bathrooms. The DeKalb police were called, and a full investigation was done anytime the graffiti was discovered. The fact that they couldn’t locate the criminal means the administration doesn’t care? If the criminal wasn’t found, that is the fault of the police department, as that is who the incident was turned over to, not the administration, who simply reports the crime. If someone’s home is broken into and the owner doesn’t locate the criminal, is it his fault?
And just to be clear before the blogosphere commenters seize on this, the graffiti last year was not racially motivated nor directed at CKHS students. It was an empty threat to the entire school meant to get attention. School was kept open, kids were safe but the administration allowed those who felt uncomfortable to stay home excused, actions were clearly communicated to parents and students, and education went on. The long-term impact of those threats is that students are no longer allowed to carry backpacks in school, visitor entry is restricted to one door, and bathroom privileges have more restrictions and monitoring. While I don’t like the thought of someone making threats, as a parent, I am satisfied with this level of response as are all of my fellow CCHS parent friends (understanding that’s only a sample). You are, of course, entitled to feel differently, and I respect that. The facts are that a very detailed responsive action was taken and communicated. I don’t fault the school administration for not finding the criminal.
I am in agreement with you about the existence of a DeKalb Cartel, aka Friends and Family. I don’t feel like I have run into any of them at CCHS, but that doesn’t mean there aren’t any.
As I have said about 15 times before, there is no denying that something happened. I haven’t questioned that once. My issue is that this post is the literary equivalent of throwing a pipe bomb into a dumpster. It has the potential to be a very thoughtful and productive post, but it isn’t. I was under the impression that this blog was a place for thoughtful commentary on education issues in DeKalb, which is why I subscribe to it. This post stood out in its tone and content.
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September 23, 2016 at 6:28 pm
Honestly the amount of disgust and racism students from cross keys get at Chamblee disgusts me . The fact that there are parents and students from Chamblee calling CK students ” anchor babies ” is disgusting what are CK students now animals ? There is honestly no reason for this kind of mistreatment . My friend who got transferred to Chamblee had gotten mistreated within the first week of attending Chamblee . Hearing stories about my friends from CK getting attacked with rasicm . Having former students from Chamblee tell them ” go back you immigrant ” and many more . Really ? How rude can students be just because our skin tone aren’t white . Just because we have different skin tones doesn’t mean we aren’t the same . Our skin one shouldn’t define us . We are all bones under us . At some point there’s gonna be a time where people just have to suck it the hell up that we are diverse but being diverse doesn’t give you the right to be rude . Yeah we have different skin tones , different ethnicity , ( possibly ) different lives , get over it . It won’t ever change the fact that we are all human .
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September 23, 2016 at 6:54 pm
Amy, there is a difference between “admitting that those acts are wrong” and actually making it sound like you care about the students who are being mistreated and insulted. All you have done is talk about all the the things the school has done, how great all the people YOU interact with are great, but in the process you are completely diminishing the fact that these students have been legitimately hurt.
Kind of like how black lives matters allies try to understand and uplift the black community and you sound like that person who doesn’t understand the movement and goes around saying “all lives matter.” Stop making this about yourself. It’s clear you don’t care about the kids who have been hurt and that’s really what this was about.
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September 27, 2016 at 9:08 pm
Erika, well-said. If I could, I would copy and paste parts of this into the original post.
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September 24, 2016 at 7:11 pm
If we take out the original title to this particular blog, which was the racial and cruel public graffiti by a student, and look at the pictures that follow of discussions Rebekah was involved in and pair that with some of dialogue that is occurring around our district overcrowding opportunities, I think what we will find is an opportunity to have a healthy and forward moving discussion about perception, fear, hope, expectations, and reality…
There is always some truth behind perception, but finding the depth and breadth of that truth is important. Being able to discuss that perception, to seek clarification or reinforcement, to discuss fear and solutions… That is critical. In all of this the greatest reality that exists is that we are talking about children – who are a direct link to the success of our individual and collective futures. When we discuss education and how to make it most successful, we are going to need to have open ears and hearts. To realize that, often, when parents say things out loud that come off as offensive or ignorant, they are actually coming from a place of concern, protection, and purpose – which is to provide the best opportunity for their own children. So we need to soften our tones, to ask questions. We need to be willing to look at the perceptions and understand the reality. And we need to find solutions that are beneficial to all.
I for one am dying to have an honest conversation about the many complicated variables that impact the success of my elementary students’ success. Some of it would likely touch on sensitive nerves – but we need to be willing to hear and discuss these variables with out taking things personally. We need to hear and see with an open mind so that we may build a school system that sets ALL of our students up for meeting their greatest potential.
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September 24, 2016 at 9:29 pm
Something tells me Amy is also mad about Kaepernick kneeling, but not the police brutality.
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September 24, 2016 at 11:42 pm
While many may argue that this post is biased and only shows one side, it has facts to back it up. This is an issue that probably would not have even been brought to the public eye if this blog had not been written. There is obviously no argument from Chamblee students (“some”) because they are the ones doing the harm. If a CK student says they are getting bullied, then I believe it because CK is such a welcoming school. I wish Chamblee students would just stop being so negative because there school is not perfect. Yes, Cross Keys is not perfect, but it tries to be. Also Chamblee students cannot complain about CK students going to them when their students come to CK to take the technical classes we offer. So if you are coming to us, why can’t we go to you? Don’t affect CK when your students obviously benefit from it.
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September 25, 2016 at 12:27 am
See the problem is, that everyone believes CCHS is perfect and an amazing school,well it’s an amazing school, but it’s far from perfect. There’s evidence of that in this blog. Now how do people solve a problem? They adress the situation. This is what Rebekah is doing. It’s just a blog! Yes I heard about the bomb threats and that goes to show how the students really are. First off how can a student go up to a Latino and say “Hey you’re Mexican right?” Like you wouldnt go up to a Black person and say “Hey you’re from Africa right?” Or go up to a person with blonde hair blue eyes and say “Hey are you a Nazi?” No, you don’t. It seems to me that CCHS has it’s reputation of being one of the best schools, with the best students in the country. Maybe acdemically, but not student wise. I’m a CCHS student and I see this occuring. It’s really disturbing how an adult will refer to them as “anchor babies” um hello you shouldn’t be talking, because if you’re white (the one that commented that) then guess what? You’re whole generation were all “anchor babies” remember, it was the Europeans that kicked the Native Americans out of this country. So to be quite honest, you yourself shouldnt be talking. But anyways you guys that have negative comments about this are just upset that maybe some of you’re kids are the one’s doing this, and now we’re calling them out. Honestly I believe Rebekah has every right to post this. This is something that needs to be brought up to the entire student body. Honestly Dr. Sauce if you’re reading this which I know you will. Please Have an Assembly!!!!!
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September 26, 2016 at 12:41 am
If @CCHS STUDENT can agree with Mrs. MORRIS, then Mrs. Morris isnt lying. Amy may be a parent of a student that attends Chamblee, but she doesn’t know what is going on during school hours. If a former CK student and a CCHS student can agree, then there is no point in trying to correct Mrs. MORRIS for her blog. Its a blig, come on now. The only way you solve issues are by discussing it. She isnt trying to bring Chamblee under the bus. The big issue for DeKalb county to fix, and for seperate school communities, they just need to talk with their students and hope fof the best. Mrs .Morris is speaking up for the former CK students and it also includes me. Us, “Cross Keys kids” dont need to feel labeled. I’ve always had so much pride in being a CK Indian and at Chamblee, they say so many terribke things to make us feel ashamed that we went to CK. Alot of us are only attending Chamblee because we couldnt opt out and it is more convenient because we usually travel to school about 20-30 minutes to cross keys.
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September 26, 2016 at 2:01 pm
Then this is a great argument to keep CKHS and CCHS separate. I’m not sure what you and/or Ms. Morris’s argument is. Are you saying you don’t want to/shouldn’t be part of CCHS since they are so mean? Or do you want to be part of it? I am very confused. If this is the case then I don’t think you should be arguing so strongly to be in CCHS. Maybe the option with a new HS in Doraville is better?
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September 26, 2016 at 5:20 pm
A new high school in doravilee is something we are hoping for lol
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May 3, 2017 at 3:18 am
All of these articles have saved me a lot of hedsachea.
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