Do you value our journalism? We will not sit silently while these individuals continue their bigoted attacks. Colleyville Heritage, however, is the first school in the state to have multiple students admit to using steroids, said Kim Rogers, spokeswoman for the University Interscholastic League. Proponents also believe race is culturally invented, not biological. Lewis repeated that shed told him everything she knew. "I wish I had the conviction to say, 'No, I'm not going to take it down; that's a picture of me and my wife kissing on the beach; there's no reason for me to take this photo down.'". Bryan is used to getting in trouble with his mom. James Whitfield - Colleyville Heritage High Principal (CBS 11), Grapevine-Colleyville ISD Releases New Statement On Decision To Put Principal James Whitfield On Paid Administrative Leave. Lewis decided that she had an obligation to inform the school. The scandal at CHHS, as well as the well-publicized suicide of a student-athlete in Plano, Texas resulted in the implementation of random drug testing by the University Interscholastic League in 2007. A Black North Texas principal has agreed to resign after being put on paid administrative leave in August amid accusations he was teaching and promoting critical race theory. It was at this moment that I knew the attack that we currently endure, was coming, the principal wrote on Facebook. The next day, Lewis picked up her Sunday Morning News and boarded a chartered bus to Austin for a sales meeting. The district told WFAA again Friday that the decision has nothing to do with critical race theory or allegations by a small group of parents. Had it come to that? Ranking weighted 4.0 GPA* (includes only Core, LOTE, and AP courses in GPA calculation), 2. CHHS has several sub-administrators who are given students to oversee based on last name. He hung up. According to their story, Cunningham went on a 15-minute rant and blamed the then-unidentified mother for creating this problem. In GCISD, we calculate 3 different GPAs following the conclusion of each semester. The only other known instance in which a group of high school athletes admitted to steroid use was in Buckeye, Ariz., in fall 2003, according to the Associated Press. COLLEYVILLE - Nine Colleyville Heritage High School students involved in football and other athletics have admitted to using steroids, district officials said Friday. Can you hide it? and I asked, Why? In a letter to parents Monday, Superintendent Robin Ryan wrote that Whitfield has been placed on leave but that he would not go into the specifics because it is a personnel matter., Whitfield, the schools first Black principal, told The Dallas Morning News on Monday night that he was told he was put on leave indefinitely because the superintendent has determined that doing so is in the best interest of the District.. In May 2018, Dr. Ryan was named the 2018 Region XI Superintendent of the Year. Hed only used them for a short while at the end of his sophomore year, when he wanted to make the varsity team as a junior. He knewfrom friends, from weight-room whispers, from his own two eyesthat many of the starters were accomplishing just that task with injected aid. Dec 29, 2022 The 2022-23 UIL high school soccer season officially starts today and the Star Telegram released its first soccer area rankings this week. Bryan got out and starting jawing with him. It was early afternoon on Wednesday, September 22, and the Colleyville mother, after putting away the jeans, noticed a black leather bag. Officers were called around 3:20 p.m. to the campus in the 5400 block of Heritage Avenue about a man with a gun. She tries to focus on the things shes helped accomplish. It was, 'Hey, I am trying to avoid any conflict. Ive counted. It has 1,879 students in grades 9-12 with a student-teacher ratio of 14 to 1. It had absolutely nothing to do with race. Lewis told Beal that her son had used steroids, that he obtained them from other kids on the team, that they got them from someone at the nearby Whataburger. Oh, that. Now, GOP lawmakers have turned their attention to what books children have access to in schools. I wanted to protect him. 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By signing up you agree to our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy, Stand with us in our mission to discover and uncover the story of North Texas, Colleyville Heritage principal accused of teaching critical race theory put on paid leave, the principal and a crowd of supporters attended a school board meeting, multiple sources in the district have said, an incident in which a school administrator asked Whitfield to remove a photo of him and his wife, who is white, After call for his firing, Colleyville Heritage principal speaks about critical race theory claims, What we know after 3 children killed, 2 wounded at Ellis County home, Cowboys owner Jerry Jones defers comment on revival of sexual harassment lawsuit. The Grapevine . They could not tell anyone her identityor else, as she put it, I will sue you. Given the extreme care administrators used with her identity in e-mail correspondence during the next few months (obtained by D Magazine), they took her threat seriously. 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Principal Tommy Jeffrey doubles down on his decision, calls LGBTQ lifestyle non . Whitfield added that he has no regrets over what has transpired over the last couple of months, hes happy that he stood up for what he believed in and he hopes thats what people can learn from his situation. Colleyville Heritage High School went on lockdown Tuesday afternoon, March 1. The CHHS teacher who cornered her in the parking lot after the second public hearing and told her many teachers supported her but were afraid to speak out. They had the Courier article spread out, and several people were closely eyeing the photo accompanying the story. Get out of the car, Dyer, he said. Its been a roller coaster for him, she says. Attendance Clerk. Catherine Marfin, Breaking News Reporter. No, she said. Love will! COLLEYVILLE - Nine Colleyville Heritage High School students involved in football and other athletics have admitted to using steroids, district officials said Friday. 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Suite 2100 Some parents learned about the photo incident when they read Whitfields account on Facebook. And when he went to his truck after school, there was a sheet of notebook paper under his windshield wiper with one word scrawled across it: SNITCH.. While the status of this as an ongoing personnel matter limits the information that the District can disclose about the events leading up to this decision, the speculation and conjecture that surround these events warrant some additional context. Gregg Jones and Gary Jacobson sat at Lewis kitchen table, in her upper-middle-class, redbrick home, on a quiet street in Colleyville, and grilled the mother and son for hours, during several interview sessions. "That show of love and support is a signal for me that in some form or fashion, I've made an impact in their lives and that's what I'm here to do," said Whitfield. Dallas Cowboys want another playmaker on offense. Some parents from Colleyville Heritage learned of the photo incident after a lengthy social media post Whitfield made over the weekend about the accusations he's faced and the pressure he and his family have been under, including the frustration over the district asking him to take down the photo. 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He came at him againObviously, Bryan says, this kid did not know how to fightand this time Bryans punch knocked him to the ground. She said that many other football players were using them, and her son told her that, because many players knew about it, the coaches either knew and didnt care or didnt want to know so they didnt ask how players had made sudden increases in strength and size. Instead of issuing their support of me, they came after me, he said. So I wouldnt feel comfortable mowing your lawn..