Fence to Be Built at Hawthorne High
Centinela Valley Union High School trustees voted unanimously Tuesday night to build a fence around Hawthorne High School, where more than 200 black and Latino students fought last month.
The $60,000 chain-link fence, which will go up along Inglewood Avenue and El Segundo Boulevard, “will improve the safety of students and staff by allowing for better control of the campus,” according to a memo by Assistant Supt. Robert Church.
The fence should be completed by the time school starts in September, board President Pam Sturgeon said.
The June 14 melee, which was sparked by an earlier fight between a black youth and Latino youth, forced school officials in the racially divided district to cancel classes for the day. It was the district’s second large-scale campus brawl in less than two months.
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