Another administrator at Boston Latin School resigns
Assistant Headmaster Malcolm Flynn submitted his resignation Wednesday after more than 50 years at the school.
A top administrator at Boston Latin School submitted his resignation Wednesday, the day after the school’s headmaster announced that she would leave at the end of the school year.
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Assistant Headmaster Malcolm Flynn, the dean of discipline who has worked at the school for more than 50 years, resigned Wednesday evening.
The School Department confirmed his resignation, but did not comment on whether it was related to headmaster Lynne Mooney Teta’s departure.
Flynn, however, told The Globe he was quitting because he believes the School Department and the Office of Equity have been unfairly questioning teachers and administrators related to the handling of racially charged incidents at the school. Boston Latin was thrust into the spotlight earlier this year after students and members of the group BLACK at BLS Meggie Noel and Kylie Webster-Cazeau cited incidents in a video in which their white peers used racial slurs and weren’t reprimanded by school officials.
The video launched an investigation by the district’s Office of Equity, which revealed that administrators violated school policy in the handling of one of seven reported incidents. In that case, administrators did not properly investigate the incident, discipline the student responsible, or take action to ensure the safety of the student subjected to the racist remark and threat, the investigation found.
Flynn told The Globe Superintendent Tommy Chang and Mayor Marty Walsh did not effectively address criticism that the school did nothing to address the students’ complaints. He said the school disciplined the students involved, but said some might not have been satisfied with the measures taken.
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