Boston Latin Academy

Boston Latin Academy student with meningitis dies

adamg — Mon, 21 Nov 2011 22:58:31 +0000

Channel 4 reports the seventh grader, who fell ill Friday and was hospitalized the same day with meningitis, died today.

Mayor Tom Menino and School Superintendent Carol Johnson issued statements:

"At this difficult time our hearts ache for the family and friends of this young student," said Mayor Thomas M. Menino. "We mourn her loss and join with the Boston Latin Academy in this hour of grief."

"Tonight, the entire Boston Public Schools community mourns the loss of one of our students," said Superintendent Carol R. Johnson. "We send our most sincere condolences to those who loved her. We have assembled a team of counselors who are ready to work with the Boston Latin Academy community in the difficult days ahead."

Boston Latin Academy student with meningitis not doing well

adamg — Mon, 21 Nov 2011 17:08:07 +0000

UPDATE: Channel 4 reports the girl has died.

Dr. Anita Barry on the meningitis case at BLA.

A 12-year-old Boston Latin Academy student is "very, very, seriously, critically ill" with bacterial meningitis, but poses no risk to most other students, a city public-health official says.

A school nurse recognized symptoms of the potentially fatal disease when the seventh grader came into her office Friday not feeling well and had her rushed to a local hospital, Dr. Anita Barry, director of infection control at the Boston Public Health Commission said this morning.

Boston Latin Academy student hospitalized with possible meningitis

adamg — Mon, 21 Nov 2011 05:39:25 +0000

Channel 5 reports, says officials have not said which form of meningitis the seventh-grader has, but that in any case, the risk to other students is low. The school has posted a fact sheet on bacterial meningitis on its Web site.

School superintendent drops plans to move Boston Latin Academy to Hyde Park

adamg — Mon, 24 Oct 2011 10:26:52 +0000

But plans to move Fenway High School somewhere, the Globe reports.

BLA students in last-ditch effort to stay in Dorchester

adamg — Tue, 11 Oct 2011 19:48:22 +0000

Students, joined by some parents and staffers, staged a brief sit-in on the steps of Boston Latin Academy, which the school department wants to move into the shuttered Hyde Park High School, which would mean the city wouldn't have completely wasted $42 million in renovations made in Hyde Park a couple years back. The BPS plan would then have the Boston Arts Academy, currently in the Fenway, move into the BLA building.

Although Superintendent Carol Johnson has the final say, she has said she wants to wait until after the School Committee discusses the plan. A committee discussion planned for tomorrow night has been postponed until Oct. 24.

Sit-in planned for Boston Latin Academy

adamg — Tue, 11 Oct 2011 01:18:37 +0000

Students at Boston Latin Academy and supporters hold a sit-in at the Townsend Street school at 1:30 p.m. Tuesday to protest a BPS proposal to move the school to the shuttered Hyde Park High School.

Boston Latin Academy to move to Hyde Park?

adamg — Tue, 19 Jul 2011 14:59:08 +0000

The Globe reports a Boston Public Schools plan would relocate the exam school to what is now a defunct Hyde Park High School and use the BLA building to move the Boston Arts Academy out of its shared quarters with Fenway High School. Also, the Eliot School in the North End would be expanded.

Bomb threat empties Boston Latin Academy

adamg — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 18:50:27 +0000

Nothing found, of course, after somebody called and said they "had stuff all over the building."

It was a shotgun shell, not a "bullet casing"

adamg — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 00:56:49 +0000

Mike Ball's son goes to Boston Latin Academy, which went into "safe mode" (as opposed to "lockdown") today:

The 14-year-old came one today with a little smirk, a twitch over the police at Boston Latin Academy. It seems some kid brought in a live shotgun shell and left it in a john.

By cracky, in my day, the punks would pull a fire alarm and we'd head outside and stare at each other for a half hour. Today's version may involve a phoned in bomb threat, or in this case, a puerile catalytic piece of rubbish. ...

It turns out that safe mode involved a police take over of the school. They bought in gun and ammo sniffing dogs. All the kids took their coats and backpacks into the hall next to their classroom. They stood their ground as the cops and dogs did their do. ...