JamesOops Curry

Found it:

“Curry was the only student missing in court Thursday. His attorney filed paperwork for him so he didn't have to appear.”

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/4185969/

 

It’s up. The thread is titled “An open letter to Superintendent Jim Merrill." So lets rumble, vpkozel. Thousands of children are being tortured into religious conformity, and to me that’s worth fighting about. I’ll see you there.

http://www.alternet.org/story.html?StoryID=11228

 

Eastern's principal's name is JoAnn Hayes. And like I predicted Curry will not play in high school again. Coach Moon kicked him off the team as soon as he found out that Curry was charged.

 

Coach Moon is also removing any "school-sponsored" awards bearing his name from the trophy case as well.

Eastern Alamance moves on without Curry
By Rob Daniels, Staff Writer, Greensboro News & Record
February 7, 2004

MEBANE -- At 7:37 p.m. Friday, they called the roll of the seniors on the Eastern Alamance High School cheerleading and boys' and girls' basketball teams. The list ended with No. 11, Breon Lewis, No. 12 Adam Duke, No. 14 Adrian Long and No. 15 Nick Thompson.

"These are our senior basketball players, our senior cheerleaders," athletics director and boys' coach John Moon says. "We wish them our very best."

They had planned to include No. 24, JamesOn Curry. They had planned to honor the kid who recently became the all-time leading scorer in state history.

But they couldn't. They didn't mention his name, in fact. He has been dismissed from the squad.

Curry has started a punishment of at least 10 days' suspension from school and nobody knows what thereafter. The drug bust that ended with the arrests of Curry and 49 other high school students in the Alamance-Burlington School System early Wednesday morning didn't feel like a mere undercover operation 48 hours later. It was a sting.

"JamesOn is not the whole issue here," says Ron Francis, grandfather of one Eagles player and one cheerleader. "Do you know how hard it is to get a job when you have a felony? Are we going to trash our children? We are taught to raise our children, not throw them away."

Curry was charged with five felonies and one misdemeanor in connection with alleged drug transactions in October and November. Eleven days after the last of the two alleged deals, he fulfilled a lifelong dream by signing with the University of North Carolina.

The Eagles played without him on Friday, and they won, defeating Northwood 76-66 to secure the school's first conference title since 1992-93.

At 17-5 overall and 10-0 in the Mid-State 2-A Conference, the Eagles have earned a top seed in postseason play. Most of it was because of Curry, one of the top 50 college prospects in the country according to some analysts. It will have to continue without him.

"I think this team, with what we've been through this week, has left a mark," Moon said. "I know that when I see these kids 10 years from now, they will have my heart. They will have my respect."

They respect their athletics history in this community. A trophy case just off the gym floor chronicles achievements that date back to 1965, the school's fourth year. Ronald Gary York won the Golden Helmet Award in football that season.

Curry is still there, as his name adorns eight plaques -- six in basketball, two in track. They include Player of the Year acclaim from the News & Record. The most recent of them was made only weeks ago, when he broke the state scoring record.

While careful not to mention any individual by name, Moon said that anybody who would have received a school-sponsored award will no longer be so honored.

The music room became a makeshift press room after the game, as television and print reporters filed in and Moon took questions, answering everything as frankly as a gag order of the school system would allow.

"It has been a tough week for everybody connected with our basketball program, our school, our school system and our community," Moon said. "I've been devastated by this. I've been saddened by this. I've been here 19 years. We won a state -- I mean a conference -- championship."

The players were not available for comment.

"Yes, I am sheltering them," Moon said.

 

12 step programs are independent of treatment facilities. Treatment facilities are where addicts go to sober up. 12 step prorams are a way to try to stay clean. No one can force anyone to go to a 12 step program. It wouldn't work even if you could. An addict has to hit rock bottom before he decides to get sober. Is Jameson and addict?

None of that has any remote connection to the fact that he can't play basketball. Saying a 12 step program violates the 1st - even if the USSC agrees with you - doesn't mean he can't be suspended from playing b-ball.

 

8 years? Are they serious? If its weed its a waste of time...community service, court cost and kid will be ok.

 

Wow...coach has NO faith.

 

I agree. I also agree with the quote in the article posted above:

"JamesOn is not the whole issue here," says Ron Francis, grandfather of one Eagles player and one cheerleader. "Do you know how hard it is to get a job when you have a felony? Are we going to trash our children? We are taught to raise our children, not throw them away."

One hundred years ago selling any drug was perfectly legal in this country. Did we learn nothing from alcohol prohibition. Punishment should fit the crime. The evil person who killed the little girl in Florida should fry in the same chair the great state of Florida fried Ted Bundy in. These kids in this sting, if found guilty, should do about forty hours polishing fire trucks and police cars and go on with their lives. I assume none of them were busted for selling to minors, since minors can't be undercover cops.

The drug war has ruined more lives than drugs. It is based on hysteria and lies. I was once a drug warrior myself, having served as a helicopter pilot and officer in the Coast Guard, stationed on the front lines in Florida and Puerto Rico.

 

Board talks about arrests
By Mike Wilder, Burlington Times-News
February 10, 2004

Alamance-Burlington school system leaders are moving fast to arrange for drug treatment and alternative education for students arrested last week in a system-wide drug operation.

Superintendent Jim Merrill announced at a school board meeting Monday night the schools will be contacting parents of eligible students as early as Wednesday.

Fifty students were arrested last Wednesday following a five-month undercover drug operation in the system’s six high schools.

Merrill said in a press conference that morning the system would allow some of the students to enroll in an alternative education program following their suspension from the school they were attending. Students with prior drug offenses in the school system or who were already in an alternative program will not be eligible, he said.

Parents of students who qualify will be required to make an appointment for assessment and treatment at the Alamance-Caswell Mental Health, Developmental Disabilities and Substance Abuse Authority. The appointment is required for them to be able to enroll Monday in the alternative educational program.

The program will take place at the school system’s facility on Ray Street in Graham, and will be an extension of the alternative classes taught at Sellars-Gunn Educational Center.

Merrill said registration will be Monday night. Classes will be held from 4 to 8 p.m. each Monday through Thursday through a combination of online instruction and on-site teachers.

Instruction will go on into the summer, he said, depending on how quickly students learn. Students who are seniors will earn their high school diplomas there and will be graduates of Sellars-Gunn, rather than the school they were attending.

“We are moving quickly,” Merrill said. “I think our families will appreciate this.”
The drug treatment program will require participation of both students and parents, with the treatment totaling about 12 hours. Merrill said the system will be encouraging further treatment as students return for the 2004-05 school year.

School board chairman Tom Lambeth said board members were supportive of Merrill, who approached area law enforcement agencies last year about starting an undercover operation.

Lambeth thanked Merrill for “not being afraid to be bold when necessary."

“It was obvious to all of us last Wednesday that you were as heartbroken by this as we are,” he said. “It’s extremely sad that it’s necessary.”

 

Bottom line is JamesOn Curry fucked up. You can bash the system all you want, or deflect the blame elsewhere but bottom line JamesOn blew it. Period.