Mature minds retake Colleyville Heritage High

Adult administrators and mature-thinking students have regained control at Colleyville Heritage High School.

That wasn’t the case Friday when the school put on a Donald Trump-themed pep rally for its football team’s game against Euless Trinity High School.

The rally included a banner showing a wall and saying, “paid for, by Trinity.” That was too close to being a reference to Trinity’s diverse student body (27 percent Hispanic) and Trump’s frequent claim that he’ll force Mexico to pay for a wall at the U.S. border to deter illegal immigration.

Regardless of what adult mental lapses allowed that poor choice to happen, by Monday Principal Lance Groppel was back in charge.

“On behalf of everyone here, I’m sorry,” Groppel wrote in a prepared statement. “We made a mistake and we have to learn from it going forward.”

Heritage students wrote a letter to Trinity students, apologizing and saying “what we did was wrong.”

The students’ letter added, “We are not ignorant of the dialogue taking place across the nation and that is not how we want our school to be viewed.”

Groppel should be proud of students who write a letter like that. It sounds like they have already learned from this mistake.

This story was originally published September 13, 2016 at 6:30 PM with the headline "Mature minds retake Colleyville Heritage High."