Boston Public Schools
How not to handle communications with parents
Unspecified threats made against Roslindale students in general, so Boston Police stepped up surveillance of all public schools in the neighborhood on June 16. Officials at some schools told parents, officials at other schools didn't, you can imagine how parents of some elementary-school kids were a bit disturbed to find cops at the schools when they brought the kids to school in the morning..
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Acid test in West Roxbury
Two students at the West Roxbury Educational Complex were taken to Faulkner Hospital after spilling some sulfuric acid on themselves this morning.
Globe: School not evacuated.
Channel 7: School evacuated.
Both called it West Roxbury High School, which it hasn't been for a couple years now.
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The Fenway High math teacher booted out of the country
Dave Goodman updates us on Obain Attouoman, the popular Fenway High School math teacher deported to the Ivory Coast this week.
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South End T-shirt contest
Vote for the best design by a South End public-school student.
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When it comes to college admissions, Weston High may not be quite all that
Larry Davidson, who lives in Dorchester and teaches at Weston High, takes a look at where kids in the Crimson Summer Academy, an intensive summer-school program for Boston and Cambridge public-school students, have been getting in:
... Harvard admitted 3. That's 10% of the class — can’t beat that at Weston. ...
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Should Boston schools resegregate - by gender?
Ms Bart reads this Globe article about some sex-segregated middle-school classes in Boston and declares herself in favor:
... As long as the academic matter is identical, this could be a great opportunity!
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It had been a quiet couple of weeks at the Irving Middle School
The Roslindale middle school is back in the police blotter this week:
... Officer Younger responded to the Irving Middle School in which two juvenile females had a fight in the cafeteria. The victim, whose hands, nails and head were injured, was taken to the hospital by her mother. ...
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Bomb threat empties Boston Latin Academy
Nothing found, of course, after somebody called and said they "had stuff all over the building."
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Three more reasons I'm glad I don't have to worry about sending my kid to the Irving Middle School in Roslindale
Jesus. This week's police blotter in the Roslindale Transcript has three separate reports from the school:
Four girls calling themselves Die to Kill were found beating up another girl.
The relatives of a student showed up at 7 a.m. to confront her harassers - who them promptly tried to beat up the relatives (unclear if the two incidents are related).
A girl, 13, was arrested after allegedly leading 30 other students into the cafeteria to beat up another student. Fortunately, police were already in the school because of "a recent increase of student fights at the school."
All this and a possible MCAS cheating scandal.
NOTE: The column also mentions a girl getting beaten up at Catholic Memorial and the West Roxbury Educational Complex fight at the Spring Street Dunkin' Donuts, but neither of those schools get into the blotter week after week.
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Roslindale principal develops novel MCAS study technique
Sorta old news, but I was reminded of it this morning because the kidlet's taking Yet Another MCAS Test: The principal of the Washington Irving Middle School is under investigation for allegedly giving teachers parts of the test the day before so they could help their students get better scores.
Silver lining: It might take people's minds off the school's weekly appearances in the Roslindale Transcript's police blotter.

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