Posted on 02/20/2024 2:22:07 PM PST by matt04
Officials have asked Gov. Maura Healey to send in the Massachusetts National Guard to stop violence and address security concerns at a troubled high school in a city south of Boston, some school committee members said Monday.
Four of the seven members of the Brockton School Committee backed the National Guard request amid teacher shortages and budget deficits, but city officials weren't unanimous in their support.
The governor's office acknowledged the concerns about Brockton High School, where teachers reported fighting and drug use in the hallways, and verbal abuse of staff. “Our administration is committed to ensuring that schools are safe and supportive environments for students, educators, and staff," Healey's office said.
Brockton Mayor Robert Sullivan, who serves as chair of the school committee, said he forwarded the request to the governor on Friday, even though he opposed it. “National Guard soldiers are not the answer,” he said.
School committee members who backed the request held a news conference Monday to press their case for help. They said National Guard personnel could be used as hall monitors or even substitute teachers.
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They can reap what they sow as I doubt much learning was going on their to begin with.
Feral descendants of the pilgrims?
Kent State all over again.
IF that were to happen and the necessary steps taken to really restore order the cries of racism would ring out from the media.
Local Miami media covered this story in Florida. Media is angry the morons who run the schools are getting exactly what they deserve.
yep.
He's right about that.
Expelling the chronic thugs and druggies is the answer. Along with insisting on a culture of respect and order from pre-k on up. The high school kids being discussed here are the product of at least 10 years of educational malpractice.
But no one in Massachusetts would dare point that out.
This is not the National Guards mission.
LOL. Still want to keep your kids in public schools?
61.4% of the students are black.
I’m with you! There is a “Stop School Violence” booth set up outside my grocery store most days collecting money. People actually give!! What, pray tell, will throwing money at this do? They’re pocketing the money. I’m sure of it. The people collecting do not appear to be the type that are concerned in this or any other issue.
The kids really know their pronouns in this school.
Complete abdication of responsibility by school administration. They’re throwing up their hands and are looking for the most hands off method of continuing to receive paychecks.
Hall monitors with rifles and bayonets. I love it.
We’re incompetent, can you please help us?
No surprise.
Not a snowballs chance in hell - you actually think they’d (NG) would be allowed live ammo?
Used to be National Guard at the school house door to protect accomplished, hard working black kids on their way to school.
Now, it’ll be be Nat Guard inside the Schools to prevent young black kids from killing each other.
My, how the world has changed.
The zookeepers have lost control
Better call the State Militia.
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