Student stabbed at West Roxbury high school; another student charged

By adamg on Wed, 04/06/2016 - 12:08pm

WFXT reports the stabbing happened around 8:30 a.m. at West Roxbury Academy, in the West Roxbury Education Complex. The victim is expected to survive.

Neighborhoods:

West Roxbury

Topics:

Crime

Free tagging:

Knives

Boston Public Schools

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Comments

The school was placed into safe mode

By Sock_Puppet on Wed, 04/06/2016 - 1:18pm.

It would be nice if safe mode were the normal operating status.

The term "safe mode" has little to do with actual safety

By roadman on Wed, 04/06/2016 - 1:59pm.

It was stolen from Microsoft. As in Windows "safe mode", where your computer locks up and you can't do much of anything useful.

At least

By Sock_Puppet on Wed, 04/06/2016 - 2:12pm.

You didn't accuse me of bios.

ZING!

By Gary C on Wed, 04/06/2016 - 3:19pm.

ZIng!

"safe mode" is used because

By anon on Wed, 04/06/2016 - 6:04pm.

"safe mode" is used because the PC crowd didn't want to use "lockdown"

Nope

By adamg on Wed, 04/06/2016 - 7:32pm.

"Safe mode" means the school locks all the door, but otherwise life goes on inside the school. "Lockdown" is when students and staff are ordered to shelter in place.

PC crowd

By SwirlyGrrl on Wed, 04/06/2016 - 7:39pm.

Another Microsoft fan?

There seems to be a lot of safety issues in the Boston Public Schools. I hope the kid makes it and his parents get some answers from the Headmaster about what happened and are they expecting retaliation.

Have "advocacy" groups called for the firing of the

By bulgingbuick on Thu, 04/07/2016 - 7:33am.

headmaster yet?

Sticks and stones

By Sock_Puppet on Thu, 04/07/2016 - 8:39am.

May break my bones, but words I can make a federal case out of.

Lord. They already had one

By verbal on Wed, 04/06/2016 - 4:53pm.

Lord. They already had one student stabbed to death this year (off-campus, but still). My heart breaks for these kids.