Brookline High and Race.
By Jim Conley • Jun 23rd, 2008 • Email This Post to a Friend •
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As I mention in the lead column above, Brookline High School has a lot of work to do when it comes to closing the so called achievement gap between students in various social classes. But it sure sounds like you could have fooled them (the school administration).
The response to the question put to Schools Superintendent Bill Lupini on his involvement with the racial screed put out by BHS staff is rather shameful. Lupini says he is “proud of the accomplishments by Brookline’s METCO students.” Okay. But Conquest’s point (in his TAB column) was that the school had failed these students.
So it’s clear to see that the response strategy was to say that Conquest had attacked the “young people he pretends to champion.”
Here again, I suggest that when it comes to students of low social station the Brookline Schools won’t think twice before using them for the most cynical purposes.
Jim Conley is publisher of On Brookline.
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