Well, today's the day that I meet with the officer at the school and try to gather some information about gangs, and hopefully fact check some things. I had a very interesting interview on Friday that lasted for an hour and a half, and I can't really talk about it just yet, but it will make a very good article.

After I completed the interview, I was sitting in the hallway tidying up my notes (believe it or not, I can't read my own handwriting) when a very angry secretary comes and sits down next to me. "Did you interview a student named Demarcus Castro?" she asks. When I say yes, yes I have. She says "We had a deal that you would run the list of students through the front office before you interview them. So that we can get approval from their parents." I reassure her that he is 18 and that it is perfectly legal to interview him without his parent's permission. "Still, we had a deal, be sure to run the other students through us." I apologized, but she had already stalked away.

We had no such deal. At no point did the words "I promise," "I swear" or "let's make a deal that." I just handed them a list and said "Oh, here's some people I'm thinking about interviewing" and they said "Oh, we're going to call their parents."

I would like to stress again that I am not trying to make the school look bad, I'm just trying to get a good story.