Trimble Technical High School

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Green B. Trimble Technical High School, also known as Trimble Tech, is a FWISD district-wide high school located on the south side of Fort Worth, Texas in the downtown medical district. It is the largest high school in Fort Worth. The mascot is the "Mighty Bulldog" and the school colors are green and white.

[edit] History

After fire destroyed the original Fort Worth High School in 1910, the Bryce Building and Wyatt C. Hendrick Construction companies began construction on the current Trimble Technical HS building. For this reason Trimble Technical HS is considered to be the ‘original’ Fort Worth high school, a claim also held, too some extent fallaciously, by the current R.L. Paschal High School on Berry Street. After completion in 1918 the school was named Central High School, but was soon renamed to R.L. Paschal High school, after lawyer and longtime principal of the original Fort Worth High School. In 1955 the school was renamed Technical High School. During the at the beginning of the 1964-1965 school year Technical High School was desegregated, the first in Fort Worth to do so. In 1967 the school was once again renamed, this time to Green Briar Trimble Technical High School. The current principal is Mr. Manuel Cantu.

[edit] Media Attention

In 2007, the school caught local media attention when 613 students who failed the TAKS test were barred from taking part in commencement activities. Some protesters were seen carrying signs that stated "Let are^[sic] kids walk", further ensuring that the students would not take place in commencement activities.^[1]