More Q than A in Central case

Continuing coverage of yesterday's incident at High Point Central.

Links to today's stories from the News & Record and a staff report in the High Point Enterprise.
Links to discussions from High Point's own Doug Clark and the N&R Chalkboard.

The latest: two Central students were arrested and criminal charges are pending.

N&R:

Two teens are facing criminal charges after four Ku Klux Klan-style hoods were found on the campus of High Point Central on Monday morning.

Central students David Lee Hughes, 16, and Mitchell James Dawkins, 16, are charged with placing exhibit with intention of intimidating another person.

High Point police Capt. Tony Hamrick said the hoods are made of white vinyl used with traffic cones. The vinyl had holes cut in them to resemble hoods. Three of the hoods were hung near the bus parking lot at the school and a fourth was hung from the school's flagpole.

Police also found 8 to 10 traffic cones and more vinyl sheets in a Chevy Blazer driven by Dawkins. Both students face misdemeanor larceny charges in connection with that discovery.

Hamrick said police believe the teens hung up the hoods sometime Sunday night.

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The questions are immense. Why would they do it? What would prompt them to do it...and at Central, of all places? Despite the utter lack of representative leadership from the School Board's previous High Point members, Central is a model school for talent, academics and diversity.

The N&R's Brian Ewing makes a good point...will they be expelled? Sent to an alternative education environment? Should they be allowed back in?

There's more to this than meets the eye.

E.C. :)