Donald Moten just might be the coolest principal ever. He definitely puts the PAL in princiPAL. Assuming, of course, that PAL stands for Pain And Lots of it. When you got into an argument with somebody while you were attending South Oak Cliff High School, you didn’t just get a simple reprimand. You see, South Oak Cliff was Moten’s turf, and on Moten’s turf, that girly shit just don’t play. If you got a problem, you get in the cage and settle it like a man.
Home Ec. Class at South Oak Cliff High School
Let’s just get one little piece of information out in the open: South Oak Cliff High School is part of the Dallas Independent School District. This is Texas, so just be happy that the Special Education Students weren’t put into an electric chair.
Okay, now on to the important stuff. One of the school’s employees overheard the principal saying, “put ’em in the cage and let them duke it out.” Let’s analyze that for a moment. First of all, Moten must have had balls of steel to casually mention putting children into a cage for the sole purpose of violence in front of other members of the staff. Second of all, he said “the” cage, meaning that this would have had to happen often enough that the person to whom he was speaking would not have to clarify and say something like, “The cage? What the f**k are you talking about?”
"Yes, that kind of cage. What other kind is there?"
There is even a report that a student was overheard saying that he was “gonna be in the cage.” This wasn’t too much of a secret, then. I wonder what sort of offenses would be necessary before you ended up in the cage. Is there one thing that pushes you over the edge from regular detention to a cage fight?
"I've had enough of you two, and that argument over who gets the last chicken nuggets in the lunch line was just too much. The winner gets the nuggets, the loser gets detention. And by detention, I mean another cage fight."
Moten is also accused of trying to bully teachers into giving student athletes good grades so that they could play in big games for the 2005 and 2006 basketball championships. Investigators were looking into this when they figured out the whole cage fighting thing. Most people would reprimand Mr. Moten for his behavior, but he should be offered congratulations. This man ran an underground cage fighting ring in a high school, populated it with unwilling students, and got away with it for years. Let’s put this guy in charge of Congress and see what happens.
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Were any of the students willing? Are you allowed to request a fight with someone else in the cage or is it only for repremanding students. There would never be anymore parking lot fights after school if you could just ask to use the cage and not get in any kind of trouble for it. This high school is cool, I bet they even sell diet slice at the school store.