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Re: Arrests on the rise at Lawrence High: Police concerned; school officials downplay increase

ramon — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 16:30:57 -0000

kudos to the government for spending so many millions to build a school. First and foremost, what is a school? I think as much as a school is important, equally important is education. Education begins at home! In the modern world, a school is just for a select few that seek wisdom. For the rest, it is the stage to find fame and flames. Kids now go to school and discuss video games, clothing, i pods, phones and so forth. It is unfortunate that Lawrence "kids" face alot of media attention which is mainly negative. The sad part is that majority of these kids are immigrants and they all or most of them are wannabes. They have been brainwashed by the society as a whole. every home or household is playing a role in any community.

Re: Arrests on the rise at Lawrence High: Police concerned; school officials downplay increase

AngryParent — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 14:56:36 -0000

can you come translate for me? I'm not dling the paper though. lol

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AngryParent — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 14:48:40 -0000

"At the high school, 60 students were arrested on campus and 21 others were charged at dismissal time in Sullivan Park and the neighboring Stadium Projects. The report noted while that's "not actually on school property, they were within a block of the school and considered school related because they were actively dismissing from LHS"
My comment to this garbage also students that get in trouble after school are SUSPENDED. I've heard the stories and it was off school grounds, yet they throw out that they were in Sullivan Park or in the Stadium Projects? What a crock.....

The only person that I can say for sure was speaking the truth is Burke. From what I heard the gang unit has met with several students (without parents there) to try to control the gang problem. But you didn't hear that from me.

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AngryParent — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 14:32:31 -0000

Here we go!!!

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AngryParent — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 14:28:09 -0000

I think I know who Alumni is. But seeing I don't really want to let people know exactly who I am, I can't say who (he) is. If it is a he.

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AngryParent — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 14:22:59 -0000

Greg works for the city again? How freaking Ironic. He's a piece of art work. I remember when my son had surgery on his knee and was on the 3rd floor on crutches (that he didn't want to use) and there was NO elevator service. I wrote Greg an email, I got NO RESPONSE back. Sadly the idiot is PRES of the SLE little league too, that my other son is part of and Greg is NO better there either. My son didn't get to attend the trophy ceremony and he did NOT get his trophy until the new season started.

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Observer — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 14:14:23 -0000

Parking Lot:
You are a true intellectual, Parking Lot! Why don't we turn your house into a "hugh" GED Center where you could learn to spell? And you believe yourself superior to the people you condemn? Why don't we have you holding the blasting cap when we blow up the City?
Sorry guys, I couldn't help it.....I had to respond.......

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~Boriqua 4 Lyfe!!~ — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 09:20:44 -0000

hahhahahaha thats funny!!

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DanaLanders — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 20:28:12 -0000

Duh!!!

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DanaLanders — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 20:26:58 -0000

it was not 1937, you ignoramus!!!! She is telling the truth and I applaud her. I too, went to LHS without police having to patrol the halls and all that. Things changed 30 years ago and yes, we all know it and know by whom. You can descecrate the city, turn it into a pigsty, you can build a 100 million dollar high school yet lack of pride shows when you see the crime rate inside increase, you can heckle all that was good BACK THEN, if it makes you feel good about yourself, but PATSY is correct, you can not and will not ever take away what we had and how good we had it back then. None of you will ever experience what great times we had because you have no pride, some do not care about the community and never will and at least you can not take away our memories of what is was to grow up in the Immigrant City with pride.

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jon miller — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 20:18:50 -0000

Well said, well written, many good points. Regarding the point Laboy is only playing the system, I am in complete agreement. He is best arguement I have for additional education reform starting with the abolition of the school committee.

Let's take a look at the Lawrence School Committee. How many are educated? How many have prfoited from their public servents? Include immediate families too then you will see that education, which takes up so much time and money cannot be left to ametuers, even the well-meaning ones.

From a historical respect all superintedents have played yhe same game with the same disasterous results. may be we should draft the next superintendent from one of the big universities; a true professional with the expertize to run large, complex organizations. Either that or get an MBA with an ED.D, but the current crop is nothing to write home about.

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paul walters — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 20:07:32 -0000

Just wait until she goes to college. Then you will find out how 'good' her education was in Lawrence.

Can she add and subtract fractions yet?

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m+jo — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 18:58:39 -0000

How can we read about the good things if narrow minded dictators like Laboy forbid the newspaper RUMBO from setting foot on school property, or allow it in school libraries.
He is ruthless and vindictive!

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TooBadd — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 18:44:00 -0000

Ha ha ha your funny, did u think of that all by yourself? If you did, a round or applause. I bet you feel special. Well i don't need Englishes classes i already passed them. ( with A's)

your just jumping to conclusions like an ignorent outsider would. Noticed i didn't call you any names. Guess am the bigger man.

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Who Cares? — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 18:31:49 -0000

Methuen makes me want to puke. You are part of the uneducated problem in Methuen. We can tell u wen voke.

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Who Cares? — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 18:29:31 -0000

Lets give the super a raise! Great Job! What a joke.

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LHSParent — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 13:32:32 -0000

As a parent of a Junior in the PFA Academy at LHS I find alot of these comments ignorant and abusive. My child loves her school and is in the top 10 of her class! Her grades are the best they have ever been. She has wonderful teachers. There are probably over 3,000 kids in the entire school and there were 77 arrests? Not that bad a number. I 'm sure there were no arrests in Methuen, Andover or North Andover at school, right?? How about writing about the good things at LHS?? Was there anything in the paper about the wonderful Hansel & Gretel performance by the PFA Dance Group? How about the Christmas or Spring concerts?? NOPE nothing. If you write about the bad; write about the good as well!
I am proud of my LHS/PFA student!

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kat333 — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 12:25:22 -0000

You raise a good point but they would never expel a student permanently. They would say that every child has a right to an education. Plus, expelling a kid puts him/her on a faster track to nowhere.

Perhaps the answer is to take the problem kids and put them in a boot camp-like school where their attitudes are stripped down and rebuilt to teach respect, integrity, and responsibility. After a period of time, they can be placed back into the schools with the kids that want to be there.

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tired of abuse — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 12:25:18 -0000

many good pooints but off base with laboy...he is in charge
of who gets punished and who doesn't..to keep his problems ..on the down low he refuses to let the principals
discipline.. no paper work=no problems=good statistics
submitted to the state..this is why HE is the problem You
are so right about the Trib covering up andover and no andover...but their teachers are not complaining so they
must feel they are listened to..Law teachers are at a loss
as to how to address these issues with a dictator who feels
he is infalible.

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benny — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 10:35:48 -0000

Just send them to boot camp on their second time for 3days .third time is a week.let them now , or washing and cleanning the mess hallfor a week

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got2 — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 09:01:41 -0000

AMEN TO THAT!!!!!

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66 — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 06:12:49 -0000

Law-School-Parent makes a good point about parents taking responsability, and I believe that what were seeing here with the kids from Lawrence is a direct reflection of their upbringing. These kids are growing up with parents that I wouldnt clasify as adults, nevermind calling them responsable.....And we want kids to be better people?
Remember that poem, "chilsdren learn what they live".

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Law-school-parent — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 01:28:19 -0000

Lawtownlady, let's not kid ourselves. Are you claiming that Lawrence's problem is that residents work too much? Let's assume this is the case. While I can barely say that with a straight face, I will humor readers with this assumption. These same people could suck it up for a year or two and get themselves educated and greatly increase their current salary - IF THEY WANTED TO. The state would more likely than not pay for their entire education.

Whatever your home situation (have a job, maybe two, on welfare, uneducated, etc), it is YOUR responsibility as a parent to raise your children. Figure it out or don't have children. Seems like the same people buy a car and have time to wash it 3 times a week at Haffners on Parker Street but they have children, neglect them and we make excuses for them? Perhaps I'm being a bit facetious but am I that far off? Is sending the kids to the Boys Club or the YMCA all day the solution to successful parenting? While those types of organizations/programs are good for kids with absent parents, they shouldn't be so necessary - nevermind we should have more of them. What we need is parents getting more involved in the lives of their children.

As for the crime stats of LHS, who really cares? 77 up to 81? Is that change not negligible? If it went from 77 down to 73 - would the Tribune be praising Lawrence for doing such a great job cleaning things up or would they say "Even with such a great security system, Lawrence still has high crime numbers"? What an absolute waste of ink and paper - typical Tribune bashing the city.
Imagine if Andover High students used drugs. Oh wait, they do. Does the Tribune perpetually miss that story or do they just choose to ignore the "snow" at Andover High?

You all should stop wasting your breath complaining about Laboy. While he's no Godsend, he's simply playing the game, no different than any other person in public office or position of authority. He has been empowered by the public officials WE elected. Quid pro quo, I guess.
Laboy's salary is around $200k with an enrollment of over 12k. Superintendent of Wellesley makes $185k with 4,500 (wealthy) students. Whittier Tech makes $150k with 1,100 students. Interesting! If he's not qualified - fire him. If he is - pay him what the job is worth. Either Laboy is qualified for his job and all his raises or the whole system is corrupt - you decide!

And besides, since when is it the superintendent's job to reduce/fight crime? I thought it was his job to educate our children. The security system and staff at the high school are second-to-none and they are making arrests. Maybe if the students (whose parents all work two jobs) would stop committing crimes...

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Don — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 23:21:43 -0000

I live out of town, but I understand your point about Sgt. Jiminez. When you look at Iraq and Afganistan most of the deaths seem to be caused by people of their own ethnic culture, religous differences aside. In Boston the vast majority of violence against blacks is inflicted by blacks, their own people. You have a Pedro Martinez type come to Lawrence and everyone wants to be Hispanic. When one of their own dies in a foreign war how can they draw pride from that?

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smack — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 23:16:58 -0000

I'm sorry but the bad actors at LHS aren't from great homes. These kids are cursed by the institutionalized and generational legacy of LBJ and socialist policies that continue to encourage colossal failure in minority communities. Generations of people were not meant to occcupy public housing. These people need to step up or step out.