A touching story of sibling devotion at the Washington Irving Middle School
By adamg - 1/28/09 - 10:10 pm
Ah, the good old Irving. Wicked Local Roslindale reports that when police officers heard screaming from the school computer room, they found one girl standing over another, punching and kicking her. And when officers separated the two, the police blotter continues, the brother of the aggressor rushed the cops, managing to push one over a chair as he yelled: "Get the [expletive] off my sister! You can't touch her like that! I will [expletive] you up!"
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Washington Irving
what a great learning environment. the reports that come out of that school get worse each time
Concentrating Trouble
I wonder why it seems that all the troubled students end up in one middle school?
In All Seriousness
While something sounds wrong with their upbringing, at least siblings are looking out for each other.
Ugh
This is why I worry about my son going to middle school in a year and a half. Sigh.
Kathode, don't send them
Boston's public school system is the biggest joke in the country. Most "graduates" that actually survive to graduate can't write a complete sentence never mind hold a civil conversation. I would never put my kids in that school system and if you love kids you wouldn't either. Really, I'm not joking. For the love of god, don't send them.
So, Adam doesn't love his daughter?
That's what you seem to be implying here.
Ignorance is bliss, I guess
As the parent of a Boston Public School student, I can only say you're full of a substance that's not polite to mention in polite company.
This is not to say the system doesn't have some serious problems - and, if you ask me, the Irving is one of them, which is why I am very glad our daughter's school went K-8 a couple years back, since that would have been her middle school and we'd be deciding right about now whether to try for private school or moving.
But there is plenty of good going on in the Boston Public Schools; it's sad to see somebody so bitter and wrong.
Adamg, you don't know these kids do you?
I am heavily involved with these kids every school day so I know what I am talking about. And I'm not "bitter," I'm sad. I'm sad because it hurts me to see our youth in such a predicament. Maybe your daughter is doing well, but a lot of these kids aren't getting the same guidance that I feel you may be giving her. Too many parents (mostly single parents only 15 to 20 yrs older than the child) don't know how to raise these kids or they don't care about them. I'm sad because it's sad.
You're right
We live in our little "suburban" bubble here in Roslindale. Which, however, is how we know there are good schools in Boston. So it looks like we're at extremes - You see only the bad in the system and I see only (mostly) the good.
That seems to be the case.
Because I do see the "bad" in the system. So much so that I did not know there was any good.