Her classmate Tervarious Hampton got expelled from his high school for truancy, fighting, and drugs. At first, he was afraid to come to Crawford. I'm thinking, I'm going to be there with a bunch of too old kids supposed to been graduated that's gonna have attitude problems and just like to start a lot of trouble. So I'm thinking I was going to have to fight every day. And there are some things about Crawford that do seem like a reform school.
Security is very tight.
Students are swept with hand- held metal detectors every morning. Bags are carefully inspected. And the school day is very tightly structured. Jerome Damasco was a practicing child and adolescent therapist before he took the job as principal. When students do first come to this school, you notice that they are quite guarded.