Castleberry on Parking: ‘I Told You So’

An estimated 94% of Clarksville High School students drove their own car to school on Tuesday, creating havoc in the parking lot. Custodian Gary Bumpus and an assistant herded the students to empty parking spaces. Some rows were six vehicles deep.

When the lower parking area at the school was filled, latecomers were sent to the church across the street to park, providing that they join the church.

Principal Judith Castleberry alarmed the student body at a mid-morning assembly, by shouting “I told you so!” and then lowering her voice an octave to say “Thursday, do not drive! Judith Castleberry does not want to see your car in the parking lot. If Judith Castleberry sees your car, Judith Castleberry will eat your car.”

A number of the freshmen, scared by the outburst, took cover by going out the back door and into the fenced area. Unknowingly, they had just broken Castleberry’s golden rule: do not go inside the fenced area. One student was ran over by a bulldozer and another was knocked unconscious by a steel beam. Since they were freshmen however, no one seemed to care. They were moved to the boiler room until the principal can decide what action to take against them. She did comment that it involved “number two pencils and a comb.”

~ by dp on August 25, 2007.