Posted on 01/27/2023 6:38:24 PM PST by simpson96
A fight between a group of middle school girls at Boston Latin Academy took place as city councilors have been debating whether police officers and metal detectors need to be in place in all of Boston's public schools.
Four members of the Boston City Council have sent a letter to Superintendent Mary Skipper following Monday's brawl, in which a student was taken to a hospital after being attacked with a pair of scissors.
"We really need to come together and address this before something really bad happens," said City Councilor Erin Murphy.
Boston City Council President Ed Flynn, City Councilor Michael Flaherty and City Councilor Frank Baker joined Murphy in signing Monday's letter. The same four councilors sent an open letter to Mayor Michelle Wu earlier this month, making the same calls for police officers and metal detectors.
They argue there should be "no question" that metal detectors be returned to all schools, and that school police should be reinstated in school buildings. They say violent incidents are becoming commonplace after police were taken out of schools in 2021.
"If you're in your math class and you hear a fight like you saw on that video in the hallway," said Murphy, "you don't feel safe, you have to feel stressed, there's no learning going on."
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> A fight between a group of middle school girls at Boston Latin Academy... <
Did the girls yell at each other in Latin? That would have been epic.
We must outlaw scissors, so only outlaws will have scissors.
Who the heck are they letting in Boston Latin these days?
The same POS humans in every single city in America.
Feral scum.
Is there a Boston White Academy? Why does every other ethnic group can self-identify but when whites do it, it’s antisemitism or white supremacy?
It’s been around for about 150 years……I doubt race was a factor in naming it..
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It was founded April 23, 1635. It’s the oldest classical school in the US. It was an “Exam School” at one time and an honor to have been admitted and to graduate for those who attended. That’s gone out the window with all other “meritocracy programs.” Ps: It’s most famous drop out is Ben Franklin who left in the tenth grade to work at his father’s print shop in Boston.
“Restitudio faciendum est!”
The original school was “Boston Latin School” later known as “Boys Latin.” Then came Boston Latin Academy for the “ladies.”
Boston Latin School, founded in 1635, is in the Fenway neighborhood. Boston Latin Academy, founded as Girls Latin School in 1878, moved to Roxbury, which is said not to be a great neighborhood. Roxbury Latin, though, in West Roxbury, is a posh and expensive boys private school.
It was known as Girls Latin for many years.
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It is all affirmative action enrollments now.
Is that Mayor Michelle Wuhan Wu? Never mind!
School anarchy is a widespread problem since traditional forms of discipline have been cancelled. Restorative justice means you get a good talking to for bad behavior. Liberals are fools.
Re: “They say violent incidents are becoming commonplace ...”
There are schools so violent that it would be better for the child to NEVER attend!
Hey! Illiteracy and innumeracy can be fixed. Dead can’t be.
Thanks. Had several friends from Charlestown who attended Latin. I graduated from Boston English, there at Avenue Louis Pasteur with the Class of ‘70. And the present “Head of School” at Latin is my first cousin, once removed, Jason.
Three years at Boston Tech myself, though I finished elsewhere.
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