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Mar 4, 2008 1:08 pm US/Eastern
Edison High School Tries To Get Back To Studies
MIAMI (CBS4) ―
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Police move in after disturbance at Edison High School
CBS
Almost all of the students arrested during a chaotic brawl at Miami Edison Senior High were back in class on Tuesday as fifteen of Miami's community leaders asked faculty, parents and students not to rush to judgment until all the facts were in.
Pastor Richard Dunn of P.U.L.S.E. said "Sometimes students want to protest, but you have to know how to protest." Other clergy members outside the school grounds said today they stood by the faculty, the teachers and the students to resolve the matter.
During a special hearing on Monday, Miami-Dade Circuit Judge Lester Langer ordered 19 of the juveniles arrested last Friday to return to class on Tuesday and ordered them to abide by a night time curfew. All the students were charged with disrupting a school event, rioting and resisting arrest with violence. Another student was given a weeks of house arrest because he was accused of throwing a milk carton at a police officer. The teens could be sent to special programs for juveniles if convicted. The adult students, who were also charged, face probation or up to five years in prison if convicted.
More than one hundred students held a rally Monday morning in M. Athalie Range Park, on Northwest 62nd Street across from the school, demanding that all charges against their fellow students be dropped and Assistant Principal Javier Perez be fired and then charged for putting a student in a choke hold last week.
Perez, who was not at the school on Monday, has not been re-assigned according to school officials.
During the rally, Edison's Principal Dr. Jean Teal addressed the protesting students.
"Our school and our community are working together," said Teal, "to ensure that Miami Edison stays on the positive track that it has been on in previous years. We are looking forward to getting back to a sense of 'normalcy' and start the healing process."
Friday, officers from three departments including the city of Miami and Miami-Dade police were called to the school after a school police officer hit an emergency button and called for backup, saying students were 'rioting' at the school. The melee started shortly after 11 a.m. at lunch when students tried to stage a protest against the arrest Thursday of a student who had tangled with Perezl. Students claim they were attacked by police as they tried to stage a peaceful protest, but police say the students became unruly and attacked police officers, throwing chairs, milk cartons and books.
More than two dozen students were arrested and ten police officers were treated for minor injuries.
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