Fenger High School Students Arrested After Lunchroom Brawls

CHICAGO — Five students have been arrested for fighting at a Chicago high school less than a month after an honor student was killed in a brutal beating recorded in a cell phone video camera.

Police say four Christian Fenger Academy High School students are charged with reckless conduct and one is charged with aggravated assault. All are male juveniles. Police did not know where they were being held late Thursday.

Tensions between students at the school are blamed for the death of 16-year-old Derrion Albert. He was beaten to death with wooden boards during a street brawl after school on Sept. 24.

Three teens have been charged with the slaying.

Comments

[DawnK]

03:16 PM on 10/24/2009

How do you fix this problem? I just don't know. These kids don't seem to be afraid of their parents, teachers or police. They don't seem to be afraid of dying. How do you change that?

[kugler]

02:35 AM on 10/24/2009

Students Arrested For Fight At Marshall H.S.
CHICAGO (CBS)
Several students were arrested Tuesday morning at John Marshall Metropolitan High School on Chicago's West Side after a fight broke out at the school.
http://cbs2chicago.com/local/marshall.school.fight.2.1259990.html

[jefferymleving]

05:06 PM on 10/23/2009

Restoring order is not enough! This violence should not have ever happened!

We need to solve the problem by bringing dads back to their kids. This needs to be a movement, an initiative, a civil rights call to action!

We, as a community, need to show the passion for saving these children and protecting their future. We need to rally and protest against the gender bias and discrimination killing our children and stealing their futures!

- Jeffery Leving (founder of dadsrights.com)