Somebody's setting fires at Boston Latin School

ya, the basement was filled with smoke when we were let back in. the didn't let us go into the basement and the somehow kept the smoke contained. some people's lockers are messed up and the floor was wet from the hose. the fire today didn't do much damage, but tomorrow's classes on the "ground floor" (basement) will not be fun.

Remember when our memories of high school were alot cooler than we thought they really were...

My son (class of 2009) said he doubts this would have gone on for three days straight under the previous administration. There would have been a quick and through investigation on day one, using whatever tactics were necessary to get to the bottom of things to find out who the seriously disturbed kid is who is doing this.

Something about your "solutions" tells me you know nothing about it.

"Another day, another fire - the entitled little shits from Boston's most connected families are all out on the street."

As a graduate of BLS (which by the way is a public school--did you know this?) it's interesting to hear that my blue-collar, working class parents, raised an entitled little shit simply because I attended a public school for which there is an exam for entry. This also comes as a surprise to the 365+ kids in my graduating class who came from all socio-economic backgrounds from among the poorest in the city to those whose parents could afford to send them on spring break and ski club.

Get educated.

You want to know about the people at BLS? We are from everywhere. Some people have money, some people have nothing. Do not dare say anything bad about them because you're upset that someone you know didn't get in. We all got in because we studied like crazy before the ISEE. We all had good grades. We all care about our grades. We are still here because we care. We are nowhere near entitled. We are sleep deprived teenagers that want to get into to a good college, and try our best to be the best because so many of us are only going to be able to go to those great colleges because of SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAMS. Boston Latin School is a public school. It is an exam school. The only thing keeping anyone out is their grades. And as for the cars parked outside, the MBTA personnel are the bus drivers, driving buses crammed with kids. Instead of using yellow school buses, they use those. The cops are there because roughly 2,400 kids leaving one place at the same time is dangerous. Did you ever see the trains? Because I have seriously considered walking the 3 green line stops to Copley because of all the people. And as for the cars that people are picked up in, there are very few compared to the size of the student body, and friends carpool, and some are nice, some aren't. So back off. You have no idea what's going on there and what some people have gone through and are going through to stay here. Do not insult my friends. "the entitled little shits from Boston's most connected families" How dare you. first of all, language. second of all, everybody has a different family life. the only way you get in is from grades. no sport scholarships, no buying your way in, no hidden political wars, only grades. We all earned our spots here, and go to very great lengths to keep it, such as staying up 'til 2 am doing homework that you started at 3pm, and getting up at 5:30AM so you can be at school at 7:00 and get extra help with a teacher. We are stressed. We have back pain from the heavy textbooks we carry everywhere because our locker is on the other side of the school. This school is a famous one because we work hard. This school will remain famous because future students work hard. We have a nice library, one classroom set of iPads, and 2 computer labs because people who worked hard gave back, but we still have broken lockers, rooms super hot or cold, uncomfortable chairs, rats and roaches because we are a public school that is underfunded like all the others. We have some amazing programs because people gave back and we won competitions to afford them. Just because we have some great things, doesn't mean that we are "entitled little shits." if any of us have any entitlement that somehow connects to BLS, it is because of one of two things, 1) we worked hard for it or 2) BLS gave it to us. It gave us something to be proud of. It holds the prestige, not the families from which it students come from. It holds prestige because it is the oldest public school in the country. It holds entitlement because all of our normal classes are honors classes. It holds prestige because we work 110% to bring honor to ourselves through our work and to our school. The school is just the gateway to all the "entitlement" that we might earn because we want it. That is the only way not to fail out. We have to want it.

Oh, and disrupting all of the classes because of 1-2 people's mistake, come on! They hate pulling a grade out for the beginning of the year assembly for each class. And if you want to donate the money from them to put 2,000+ seats in that auditorium, by my guest. Oh, and why would the arsonist even care if there were extra days added at the end of the year? They were already getting expelled. 1-2 people were crazy, that does not mean you can judge all of us and consider us criminals. It's like if you were Irish and me calling you a drunk because I heard of one really drunk Irish dude. It's not fair. There are more people here than in some small towns out in Western MA: Alford-390; Aquinnah-356; Chilmark-894; Cummington-972; Florida, MA-675; Goshen-957; Hawley-337; Heath-796; among many others.

There is no secret political thing that gets us into this school. It is simply a school that the best and brightest of Boston go because they realize that they want a good career early. I'm not saying that you have to go to BLS to have a good career, all I'm saying is that we tried hard, and it sucks that everybody who deserves it can't go, but in many of my classes, there max limit is already reached. We are not entitled. We are grateful and fortunate that a great opportunity has presented itself, and we will do everything in our power to milk if for what it is worth.
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Police and Fire Inspectors were in the building today. They were inpecting the damage from a previous fire when the alarms went off.

The only time i saw the police all day was in the morning handing out pamphlets. And then they left. I was extremely dissapointed. I am a member of the BLS class of 2016

there were police officers there, but not enough to cover everywhere because it would take too many to look over everywhere, when they could be doing other things