The largest high school in Massachusetts...
...Needs the National Guard to stop violence and chaos...
Forget reading, writing, and arithmetic. The main job at Brockton High School is preventing murder.
Brockton, 20 miles from Boston. 4000 students. Young thugs and victims of thugs. Teachers refusing to show up. Afraid for their own safety.
High school committee asks Brockton mayor to send in National Guard…to stop fights, drug use and sex in empty classrooms. (*)
Teachers say mobs of students cut classes, roam the halls, and get into vicious fights every day.
One teacher was run over in the hall by students rushing to watch a fight.
One student assaulted and sent to hospital. Two students stabbed on a sports field.
Teachers believe someone in these fights is going to die soon. “Just a matter of time.”
What is Brockton police doing? I see no report on that.
What are parents of students doing? I see no report on that.
The Governor of Mass. has yet to take decisive action despite being aware of the situation.
Teachers’ unions? No word.
The school is an unabated shit storm.
The public school mandate to TEACH? Gone with the wind.
The students are being left to their own devices. Which turn out to be violent. A school isn’t necessary for that.
Let them be violent elsewhere and arrest them, and prosecute them.
Shut down the school, bring in a crew to demolish it. End it.
“Well, we can’t do that. You see, the school is a contained environment. We can limit these kids committing assault and other crimes to that space. That’s what the school is FOR. To provide a place for young criminals and their victims.”
Yes you can. You can get rid of the school. You’ll just need to protect Brockton from the consequence: an upswing in street crime. That’s what cops are for.
You could have solved the problem a long time ago, before it ballooned into a nightmare. By expelling every kid who cut classes and committed crimes and engaged in violence. But you didn’t. You took a “liberal” attitude.
Now you see the results of THAT.
Brockton High Scholl isn’t a one-off: