Boston Latin School
Boston Latin School student arrested on arson charges
By adamg - 1/11/12 - 6:05 pm
The Boston Fire Department reports arson investigators arrested a 16-year-old male student at the exam school around 5 p.m. in connection with three fires over the past three days.
The student, not immediately identified, will be arraigned tomorrow, the day after a third fire sent students and staff into the street again and fire inspectors and police swarmed the school, looking for evidence and witnesses and handing anonymous-tip-line pamphlets to arriving students. The Fire Department said the investigation is continuing.
"We look forward to an uninterrupted day of learning," school Headmaster Lynne Mooney Teta told parents in a robocall tonight. She said that police will maintain a heightened presence at the school tomorrow.
Boston Latin pyromaniac strikes again
By adamg - 1/11/12 - 3:09 pmFor the third day in a row, somebody set a trash barrel on fire at Boston Latin School, this time around 1:30 p.m. in a third-floor restroom. Teachers used an extinguisher to put out the fire, the Boston Fire Department reports. The school was evacuated for about 20 minutes.
Fire and police arson investigators got to the fire scene quickly - they were already on another floor investigating the previous two days' fires. There were no injuries, BFD says.
Somebody's setting fires at Boston Latin School
By adamg - 1/10/12 - 4:38 pmUPDATE: Arrest made.
For the second day in a row, Boston firefighters had to respond to the exam school on Avenue Louis Pasteur for what school officials are telling parents was a deliberately set fire.
Yesterday's fire, at lunchtime, was in a trash barrel in a second-floor girl's bathroom. Today's fire was also in a trash barrel, in the basement.
The Boston Fire Department reports nobody was injured in either fire - and that today's, reported around 1:15 p.m., was set under a sprinkler head, which activated - putting out the fire and causing $5,000 in water damage. The school did not have to be evacuated due to either fire, although some students had to be relocated temporarily, the department says.
Some students yesterday did walk outside when the alarms went off; today, eighth graders had to be relocated to the cafeteria because of the water in the basement, where there classes were.
Headmaster Lynne Mooney Teta informed parents of the fires in a robocall this afternoon, in which she asked them to talk to their children to see if they might have any information about the culprit or culprits. The Fire Department is also investigating.
MBTA bus driver suspended for doing what probably every school-bus driver, ever, has dreamed of doing
By adamg - 1/11/11 - 6:40 amThe Herald reports the MBTA has suspended a driver who basically locked a bunch of Boston Latin School students in and then took them for an angry ride off her route after some pranksters kept pushing the stop strip and wouldn't fess up. Among the mini-hostages: Tom Menino's granddaughter.
When life gives you vile, putrescent slime, make lemonade
By adamg - 6/1/10 - 11:42 amOK, maybe not the best of metaphors, but the kids at Boston Latin School are raising money for LGBT acceptance programs based on next Monday's visit by the screaming loser bigots from Kansas, who apparently can't get enough of the Boston area.
Lying suburbanites continue to try to get their kids into Boston exam schools
By adamg - 4/23/10 - 7:21 amCity Councilor John Tobin wants a year-long residency requirement just to take the ISEE test that helps determine whether a kid gets accepted into either of the two Latin schools or the O'Bryant.
Ed. Note: Despite what the story, in a Boston newspaper, says, it only takes sweat and tears - and hard work - to get into an exam school. No blood is normally shed.
An important week for a lot of Boston school kids
By adamg - 3/18/10 - 9:47 pmNot only is this the week parents of would-be pre-schoolers and kindergarteners learn their school assignments, it's the week sixth graders learn if they got into one of the exam schools.
The kidlet knew when she saw both me and her mother at the bus stop this afternoon we'd gotten a letter from BPS - because I almost never pick her up. And she knew right away by the grins on our faces that it was an acceptance letter. And then she surprised me, if not her mom, by saying immediately she wanted to go to Latin. So the next adventure begins.
What shall become of us if we park under this sign?
By adamg - 10/3/09 - 7:55 pm
Also, shouldn't the sign be in Latin?
We shipped the kidlet off to basic training today
By adamg - 7/6/09 - 10:10 amOr, at least, it felt like that.
Today was her first day at a three-week program at Boston Latin to get ready for the ISEE test this fall - which will determine whether she has a chance of getting into Latin or the other two exam schools (Boston Latin Academy and the O'Bryant School of Math and Science).
BLS student wins international honor
By adamg - 5/22/09 - 7:54 amOlivia Schwob wins one of three Young Scientist awards at recent Intel International Science & Engineering Fair for her project How Worms Learn III: Mammalian Gene Expression and Associative Conditioning.
