Live Boston 617 is reporting that BPD was called to Boston Latin Academy on Monday morning for a stabbing. A video was also obtained by the LB617 Team that shows a brawl in the hallways of the Townsend Street BPS school. Warning – the video is graphic and disturbing.
From “someone in the know” – a student was in fact slashed on the hand with a pair of scissors and suffered non-life-threatening injuries – no confirmation yet whether this recorded fight in the hallway is related or if they are separate incidents.
This news comes less than a week since Boston Public Schools district leaders were presented with some school safety recommendations as part of a report by the Council of Great City Schools including:’
- Consideration of BPS forming an internal, sworn police department
- Designing a process for Boston Police and BPS to share information
- Speeding up the recruitment of hiring safety specialists
- Creating an anonymous reporting hotline
Boston Latin Academy Responds:
City Councilors Erin Murphy, Ed Flynn, Frank Baker and Michael Flaherty respond:
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Rather play politics than keep students alive
once again the school dept. fixed something that wasn’t broken by abolishing their police dept.
For over 40 years they did their jobs in a professional capable manner only to be treated like yesterday’s trash.
All they had to do was allocate the funding needed to properly train them. Maybe all those teachers who signed a petition to remove them are having second thoughts now. You can’t teach if there’s chaos
I thought black was the “best school”… yeah I’m not teaching my child there I’d rather go to the king school because at least no one even pulls out a weapon in a fight and fights barely happen there