A real good guy died the other day. I was on vacation and received a call from a neighbor back home. Nowadays when the phone rings we know who is calling before we pick it up so when I saw this neighbor was calling even before he said he had some “bad news” I had…
Author: mtc9393
Hispanic Underachievement in the Boston Public Schools: Is It because English is their Second Language?
Writing about the Boston Public Schools (BPS) and the situation at Boston Latin School (BLS) involving the black students I could not but notice the plight of the Hispanic students. Like the blacks they are direly unrepresented at BLS having about one-quarter of the students there when compared to their number in the BPS. Perhaps…
Catherine Greig and April Fools Day: Anchors Aweigh
April is here and it begins with April Fools Day. Thinking of that I suggest the month of April is an appropriate time for the Catherine Greig case to be brought back into court so that she can have additional years imposed upon her by vindictive Boston federal prosecutors and a federal court system composed…
The Boston Public Schools: Will History Repeat Itself with the Same Forces at Work?
Mayor Martin Walsh perhaps blind to the destruction wrought upon the Boston Public Schools (BPS) the last time it was investigated by the federal government, or through reasons of fear, welcomed an investigation of the BPS school system by the Boston’s United States Attorney Carmen Ortiz. He was joined by the BPS superintendent a 40-year-old…
Black Thoughts on an Easter Monday: Time for a Black Proclamation
A prominent Boston doctor sent me an email on Easter that consisted of a video. It was about an event occurring in Ireland commemorating the Easter Uprising of 1916. “Hundreds of thousands of people lined the streets of Dublin for the largest public spectacle in the history of the State.” A member of the Irish…
Boston Latin School, Boston Public Schools, the Boston U.S. Attorney, and the Pusillanimous Mayor:
The problem arises when you have little else to do and you are led by the nose by a newspaper. You stick that same nose into things that are none of your business. That has always been the problem with the incestuous relationship between Boston U.S. Attorney Carmen Ortiz and her friends at the Boston…