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"A documentary series based in New Orleans' John McDonogh High School is now airing on OWN, Oprah Winfrey's cable network.It's called \"Blackboard Wars,\" and the film crew was given unprecedented access inside the school they label as \"one of the most dangerous and under-performing high schools in the country.\"With fighting scenes, sleeping students and insubordination the main themes in the season premiere, many current and former students are unhappy with how John Mac is being portrayed to the nation.\"We are not the most dangerous school in America.\u00A0 No way,\" said Allen LeFort, a junior at McDonogh.Darryl Jones, a 1992 graduate, called the depiction of his alma mater unfair.\"It went too far.\u00A0 In my opinion, Oprah and her network did an injustice here,\" Jones said.\u00A0 \"They are choosing what they think people want to see and nothing else.\"The show claims to go behind the scenes with school leaders \"as they embark together on an unpredictable mission to reinvent the struggling school.\"But many who watched the season premiere worry the show focused only on the bad, and not all of the good things happening at McDonogh.\"It focused a lot on the negative and there should have been some kind of balance,\" senior Sharron LeCoq said during a radio interview Thursday morning on WBOK.Another student said the reality show doesn't fairly represent the student body as a whole.\"I think the way they chose to open the show wasn't the right way or approach to take.\u00A0 That situation was based on the students that are here today,\" said Raven Simmons, a junior at the school.OWN will re-air the first episode on Saturday at 7 p.m. followed by a all new episode at 8 p.m.\u00A0"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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