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Several hundred march from City Hall to State House in protest against BPS school cuts

By adamg on Thu, 02/18/2016 - 11:15am

WBUR reports on a protest yesterday.

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Comments

By anon on Thu, 02/18/2016 - 12:11pm.

and the city and taxpayers shouldn't be terrorized and held hostage by public sector unions. I have no problem with private sector unions, but public sector unions should never have been allowed in the first place.

By adamg on Thu, 02/18/2016 - 12:27pm.

By people exercising their First Amendment rights?

You must have a rough life, my condolences.

By anon on Thu, 02/18/2016 - 12:32pm.

BLACKMAILING, not terrorizing.

By Scumquistador on Thu, 02/18/2016 - 12:34pm.

thats racist

By anon on Thu, 02/18/2016 - 10:24pm.

(Palm over my face)

By adamg on Thu, 02/18/2016 - 12:35pm.

By people exercising their First Amendment rights?

You must have had a rough life, my condolences.

By erik g on Thu, 02/18/2016 - 1:07pm.

...to realize that you can respond to fully 95% of all anon comments with exactly these 9 words.

You must have had a rough life, my friend.

By contrarian on Thu, 02/18/2016 - 5:09pm.

Would you say the same if they were exercising their 2nd?

By adamg on Thu, 02/18/2016 - 5:32pm.

They can bear all the arms they want, subject to the limitations set by Boston Police. I have no problems with that.

Unless by "Second Amendment," you mean Florida-style shooting your cousins in the head when you lose your balance on your hoverboard, in which case, yeah, I have a problem with that.

By anon on Sun, 02/21/2016 - 9:27pm.

So you have no problem with the First Amendment being subject to the limitations set by the Boston Police?

http://www.wbur.org/2012/03/27/recording-officers-settlement

By adamg on Sun, 02/21/2016 - 10:30pm.

In that case, BPD acknowledged violating the Constitution and agreed not to do it again. Hooray for the First Amendment!

By ljd on Thu, 02/18/2016 - 12:34pm.

"The kids need to get back in school," anon? You do know that this is school vacation week?

By anon on Thu, 02/18/2016 - 12:46pm.

OK< nevermind.

By bulgingbuick on Thu, 02/18/2016 - 12:16pm.

$1.027 billion isn't enough? Funding up $13 million over last year. Give me a break.

By anon on Thu, 02/18/2016 - 1:35pm.

Failure and incompetence have a high price.

By ckollett on Thu, 02/18/2016 - 2:29pm.

I'll bet if the school department came up with a way of spending their $1.027B budget in a way that didn't result in cuts to the schools these kids go to, the protesters would be just as happy as if the total budget were increased. This isn't about whether the funding for the school department is adequate, it's about whether the funding for the schools is.

By bulgingbuick on Thu, 02/18/2016 - 4:35pm.

piss someone off.

By Jeff9000 on Thu, 02/18/2016 - 2:53pm.

And so do charter schools. If you are a poor student, they boot you back to the public system but don't have to return the money the state gave them back to they system. They keep it. They have every interest in the world to do that as much as they can. Then you get these great charter schools and under funded normal ones with huge ratios of horrible kids

By anon on Thu, 02/18/2016 - 3:47pm.

Why does BPS cost more per student than almost every other school system in the state? Even accounting for special ed BPS spending per pupil is very high and yet the facilities are falling apart.

By Patricia on Thu, 02/18/2016 - 4:50pm.

And parents that send their kids to private schools still contribute to the public schools.

You really want to pit kids against kids?