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From a Colbert County reader:
Thought you should see the origin of the THUGGIN craze. Attached is the URBAN DICTIONARY explanation of Thuggin Thursday.
The 2nd attachment is a picture taken in (Chad Holden) principal's office at Muscle Shoals High School on October 2nd 2014. Holden is featured as one of the "thugs" in the photo op with students doing gang signs and one young lady is pointing her finger in a gun sign as well.The young man to the far right holding the mega phone is said to be Levi Fell's brother, Isaiah. This picture was posted on Insta Gram AND Facebook.
One man told me Holden posted the picture on his facebook and thought the man was kidding when he criticized him for doing that kind of thing in a school and with students with him being a leader / principal! Holden finally removed the picture from his FB.
Wonder WHY kids are "Thuggin"? WHY NOT, when a principal is "Thuggin" with them. They learn by example. Then they become adults (18), go to college, go afoul of the law, and Shoalanda has material to publish. Sad but true.
CLEAN HOUSE - the public doesn't know the half of what is going on in all these schools.
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Note: We were unable to download the Urban Dictionary photo without some modification. We will use this later. Here's the photo of Chad Holden--at least he didn't have red hair:
Nice...it goes well with Gangsta Jazz at Florence High School: Link
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Are you a customer of the Muscle Shoals Gas Department (if there is one)? Then you should read this.
We understand that there was a restaurant at Cypress Lakes Golf Course when Neil Whitsell so generously gave the green elephant (turtle habitat) to the City of Muscle Shoals. We were unaware that there was also a separate bar, but that is to be expected. It's called, at present, the 19th Hole Lounge.
Since the city took ownership, we are aware of at least two entities which leased the restaurant. A usual type of agreement would be for the lessee to pay a monthly fee plus a percentage of the profit. For whatever reasons, Muscle Shoals is now doing away with the eatery.
However, it seems the lounge will remain. Who is the lessee? Or perhaps we should ask if there is a lessee? It seems the 2013-2014 city budget allotted 85K to run the bar. This would be 85K in tax dollars.
Apparently since the restaurant is being shut down, the city thinks it's a good idea to install a gas grill to prepare some fast food for the golfers--we're guessing a little food insures more liquor sales. Where did the city get its gas grill?
It would seem the Muscle Shoals Gas Department donated the grill. Where did the gas department get the grill? We're going to assume that it originally cost them some money--money produced by gas sales to Muscle Shoals residents.
But wait! Does the City of Muscle Shoals have a gas department? We would very much like a link to info on this city department. Just as in our finite wisdom, we didn't realize that Cypress Lakes had a separate bar, we thought that the Northwest Alabama Gas District served the citizens of Muscle Shoals directly.
So we obviously have research to do. After all, we can't imagine why the Northwest Alabama Gas District would give a local bar a free grill. We think Tony Burns has more sense than that...
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The 19th Hole Lounge sounds classy, huh? Why are we thinking of a line from the West Texas Waltz? "We heard us some sounds; it was a honky tonk lounge."
Shoalanda
So the principal lets his guard down and has a funny picture with faculty and its vilified? I do not agree with everything Mr. Holden has done, as I do not agree with most everyone from every public office, but this somewhat petty. It is good that some educators have a sense of humor.
ReplyDeleteYou can make gun signs, but you can't have bright red hair? Maybe that makes perfect logic to some, but not to us...
DeleteAnd aren't students in some schools expelled for this behavior?
All of those students in that picture are all A honors Student
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ReplyDeleteThis is ridiculous. I go to school with all of these kids and they're all really good kids. Three of which have parents that are either teaching or have taught in the system. There's nothing wrong with this picture and honestly people need to stop being so nit-picky over little things like this and focus on real issues.
ReplyDeleteYall are incredible talking about a man as though he was a criminal. I have personally seen Holden touch the lives of tons of kids and I also know his humor and relating to the students keeps some kids coming to school instead of droping out. If any one reads this and feels that he is bad In any way, shap, or form, I dare you to step in his shoes and try to relate with the whole school body. He is a great man and to me he was the right man for the job. You have no right to critasize someone without knowing them and those students first. Oh and by the way those kids in his office that you are saying will grow up and be thugs are AP students that are currently in the hardest classes there are at MSHS.
ReplyDeleteFTR, it was "Colbert County Reader" who mentioned bad behavior in adult life.
DeleteSecond, Mr. Holden should not be trying to relate; he should be a mentor and authority figure, not just one of the gang.
Are you kidding me? I realize that this is a blog and it is your opinion but this is redicilious. This is a lighthearted moment with him and his students and you have turned it into something unnecessarily dramatic. I see nothing wrong with a principal joking around with a group of students as long as they have respect for him as well. For this to happen these students are obviously not causing trouble but are good students. Yes there are students that get in trouble for doing things that are gang related but do you seriously think that that was the case here? Do you know these kids? Do you care that you just put them in a negative spotlight when they may be good kids? Do you know about their lives or their struggles? I think it is great when teachers and principals form a healthy bond with their students. It makes it more likely that they will go to them when they do have struggles. I am saddened by your petty willingness to make a fun moment into a dramatic story just to get people to read your blog. They are still kids and were having fun and you are joining with society to try and take that innocence away as quick as possible.
ReplyDeleteThe "story" was sent to us. Send us a guest blog and we will publish it. That's our policy.
DeleteYou're truly an idiot. Don't you have better things to do rather than complain about minutia?
ReplyDeleteYou are moron boy
DeleteThat's cute coming from someone who can't properly form a sentence. Get an education before you try and insult my intelligence, you simpleton.
DeleteI don't understand how the girl got suspended for the red hair that shed had for 3 years. But yet I've seen students get suspended for pointing their fingers in a gun or gang sign!! I guess it just depends on "who" you are!!!
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