A large fight, apparently involving at least a dozen kids was reported this afternoon on Oak Grove Road, in the area of Ygnacio Valley High School in Concord.
Kids were pulling baseball bats out of a four-door BMW with tinted windows, according to witnesses.
Right after the kids got the bats from the car, the BMW was involved in a two-vehicle collision on Oak Grove Rd.
Injuries were reported in the fight. It’s unknown of anyone was arrested.
Thanks to Matthew for the photos from the scene.
They were in a big hurry to get home to Pittsburg to eat dinner with mom and dad and they crashed……
I saw one kid get arrested im not sure if any others got arrested or not
Let them be home schooled from now on since they can’t behave themselves.
Believe in this case baseball bats would be considered deadly weapons.
Don’t blame it on Pittsburg it’s our very own concordians
Assault bats
Kids?
Criminals in training.
The failure of the “kids” parents is obvious.
The parents didnt even live in the country 4 years ago
Perhaps they should go back.
Baseball bats?
I guess it was a pre season fight.
What the hell happened to YVHS?
-1983 Graduate
The zoning for that school is the poorest part of the city, the monument corridor. What do you expect?
How’s that the high school is miles from monument?Its in a good neighborhood at Treat and Oak Grove.Unfortunately this can happen anywhere.It needs to be handled with strict consequences that’s the problem.The kids will get away with it.The parents need a good a__ kicking and then they need to give the kids one.
YVHS is the closest public high school to most of the Monument corridor. As the crow flies, Mt. Diablo High School is about equidistant to the East end — and College Park High School is roughly equidistant to the West end — of the Monument corridor.
The district map can easily be looked up.
We live in Colony Park and our kids go to Walnut Creek schools (just like everyone else in the neighborhood or private) even though we are zoned for Fair Oaks Elementary, Oak Grove Middle, and YVHS. We choose to distance ourselves from the families and kids that go to the Concord schools since they are from the Monument area.
So walnut creek school let your kids in the school without a problem?
I went to yvhs class of 2000 and this isn’t something new. My freshman year we had a similar fight happen during our lunch period in the quad. Soda machines knocked over, using the cans and throwing them at people. It was crazy. It initially started between the juniors and seniors then broke out into a huge mob.
Late 80s were wild during my stint at YVHS, and not in a good way.
According to my mother (class of 76) it was a s*hole back then, too.
I did my 4 years and was paroled from YVHS in ’75.
Your Mom is right.
@FRED C. DOBBS
What the hell happened to YVHS?
-1983 Graduate
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Fred, I apologize for the late response to your question. I taught school in the YVHS area back in the late ’90’s/early’00’s. Decisions which were made by MDUSD that might clarify your excellent question.
In the late ’90’s/’00’s, the YVHS attendance area consisted of Oak Grove MS, Woodside, Bancroft, Fair Oaks, and Ygnacio Valley Elementary Schools. When Pleasant Hill MS opened up to students, the majority of the students from Woodside went to Sequoia instead of Oak Grove. The majority of students from Bancroft went to Foothill instead of Oak Grove. Cambridge Elementary School students then went to Oak Grove instead of Glenbrook Middle School, which was closed.
The upshot is that Oak Grove MS and Ygnacio Valley HS campuses never moved, MDUSD changed the boundaries. That greatly changed the student makeup of Oak Grove MS and eventually, Ygnacio Valley HS. And here we are 20 some odd years later, that is what the hell happened to YVHS!
‘Bussing’ should be illegal…..and Anyone who even suggests it should be Cancelled!
In this case it’s ‘driving’…..aka Lying about your residence I’m Pittsburg in order to attend a school out of your district.
I’m a teacher at the school, all students live in concord. None of them are “pittsburg people” as every one is saying. it’s not the 13
My cousin lived in Pittsburg, but went to school at College Park, using my mom’s address, so it does happen.
Let me fix that for you. “All students report addresses in Concord.”
It is so difficult to do that, I hope you know. I couldn’t even prove our actual Pleasant Hill residency for my son with the paperwork that I had available to me — I had to pull a copy of the lease and have wet signatures on it and a paycheck stub with a corroborating address. We also moved and they somehow found out and I had to produce more paperwork to prove we lived in Pleasant Hill again so he could continue to go to College Park. It’s not as easy as you seem to think it is.
Why jump through so many hoops for a College Park education? Better off jamming through “night school” at Los Medanos or getting a GED so he can just start at DVC.
It’s not difficult at all. Four of my son’s athlete friends claimed the family was estranged and they were living with relatives. If the relative is cooperative, no problem whatsoever. Thanks for your life story though…
It’s called and interdistrict transfer people… they’re not too hard to obtain…
You’re a teacher with grammar, spelling and punctuation like that? Those kids are doomed. I hope you don’t teach English.
I’m not sure they’re a teacher; I wouldn’t expect the comments I’m seeing come from one. I know many teachers at YVHS and many students as well. Rest assured those kids are not doomed and many of them are becoming great young adults. There are “bad kids” at all schools, fights are going to happen, kids are going through much more than some of us could bare to imagine and I’d say the parents more so. I’m sure the parents of the boys in the article especially are going through a rough time now if they know about their child’s involvement.
Remember we are all responsible for our community. We all have opportunities to make an impact on the lives of our adolescents. No matter how small the interaction may be, it can resonate deeply with someone. I think it’s very unfortunate what happened and I can’t believe I missed this scene playing out as I frequent the area and would have done something had I seen a brawl breaking out. I would advise others to not follow my lead into this dangerous situation as my background is a little different. But the point I’m trying to make is that we don’t need to blame someone, we don’t need to make the correlation between lower income and quality of education or rate of crime. We know these statistics and the trend already. We know there are parents coming here as immigrants who barely speak the language we speak sending their kids to school in hopes they can make something of themselves in this land of opportunity. There are so many things we know and how it would all point to the cause of this unfortunate situation. My question is what can we do as a community or as an individual to lift our future generation out of this pit they seem to be stuck in. Personally I keep my hand reaching out to these kids hoping I can make a difference as I know all the teachers of YVHS are doing the same and not making claims of knowing information on the students background on a local news article.
I would advise others to not follow my lead into this dangerous situation as my background is a little different.
What does bussing have to do with this?
Nortenos and Surenos again?
It wasn’t “the usual crowd” it was afghan boys that all moved here in the last 5 years. You all blaming pittsburg and antioch can stay out of this one for once
THANK YOU!
Concord churns out plenty of its own miscreant delinquents on its own.
Hats off to you and the other teachers who toil against the headwinds of cultural decay and community rot to give those kids who want it enough a shot at a better life.
That’s what I was wondering. Do I dare say it? Yes, I will. So they brought some kind of “gang mentality” to our country from the one they left? Were several groups fighting each other (that were enemies from their former countries)? THIS SHOULDN’T BE HERE! This reminds me of the stories I’ve heard about rival gangs from the 1950’s fighting each other in NYC.
@Landana JACKSON….Like this?…https://youtu.be/c9z33lasnkU?si=mGsPxH0VIMowhKSx
After reading the article, my first thought was, they must have seen West Side Story. High school rumbles are nothing new.
There was a recent incident where a kid was chasing someone with a knife and cops shot at him because he started charging them. Although he survived, people from his community were defending him that he’s not aware of how things are here…..didn’t know that chasing someone with a knife and charging at police is acceptable in some cultures lol
Some of life’s lessons are hard learned.
No. It was Afghani students. Been a problem at a YV.
There is nothing wrong with Pittsburg or its kids. They have the right to pursue the best education possible. That’s a good thing.
Can’t believe what I’m reading from claycordians. Not even funny.
Well said!! If people want to get real, there are homes in Pittsburg MUCH nicer than many areas in Concord. So terribly rude and judgmental.
Back in ’68 my Walnut Creek elementary school class went to Camp Loma Mar for 3 days.
We were there with a class from a Pittsburg elementary school.
Hal Stein took us into the forest to explain what a tree is or something.
When we returned we found our cabin had been burglarized and everything of any value had been stolen… we became judgemental.
“Kids were pulling baseball bats out of a four-door BMW with tinted windows” Sounds like a co-ordinated attack on the kids. The driver of the BMW needs to be arrested!
Diversity is our strength.
we were born wild from day 1 😂
Bat’s are a weapon. Driver is an accomplice.
I hope Officer Krupke was able to restore order!
WARRIORSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS come out to playyyayyyyyy!!!!!!!
USA JIM,
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The Warriors are long gone, they’re now the Wolves.
Warrior forever.
Ha! I got it!
Great line from a terrible movie, but it does seem to fit this situation.
Terrible movie?!?!?!?!? How dare you. At least it was original, which is more than can be said for 99% of the crap coming out of Hollywood now.
Better than guns. The pittsburg school district is way better than MDUSD. Time to face reality.
Do these kids understand how much damage they can do to one with a baseball bat? What happened to the good ol’ days when fists were used?!?!?!?
I’m surprised they showed for school at all!
There IS a future for the new generations after all. Ahhh, I will sleep good tonight with that thought.
Afghan boys/gang against Arab boys/gang what could go wrong? Bring the best crop of people into our country!
I knew a student who took Bart from Oakiand to Mt Diablo High.
ANON,
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I knew of students who took BART to MDHS from Lafayette and San Francisco, as well as took the Sacramento Northern train, which preceeded BART on the same right-of-way, also from Lafayette and San Francisco, too. I also knew of MDHS students who drove to MDHS from Clayton and the eastern end of Pittsburg.
@Anon – Oakland to MDHS is a lateral move at best.
The students were NOT Hispanic and from Pittsburg. MDHS students came on the YVHS campus to start a fight.
I see a couple people praising college Park.
Fun fact: they’ve had over 70 fights this year and have had more suspensions and expulsions than YVHS.
I agree there are changes that need to be made, but bashing schools is not going to make it happen. What will work is contacting the superintendent directly and voicing your concerns.
I am still hopeful that someday Northgate HS along with their feeder schools break away from MDUSD.
THE GRANT,
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The formation of a new school district out of existing MDUSD territory is extremely unlikely to happen. The government of the State of California doesn’t want more and smaller school districts. You can thank the actions of former Governor Pat Brown, as he was the one who made it extremely difficult for more cities and special districts to form.
Be careful what the left shall wish for.
Breakdown of law and order is abundantly
Apparent!
Stay tuned folks
My fat friend saw the whole incident