Federal probe finds harassment, discrimination at Boston Latin
Shortly after students left school Monday, US Attorney Carmen M. Ortiz announced that a sweeping civil rights investigation at Boston Latin School found a pattern of race-based harassment and discrimination at the elite school.
Ortiz said that a civil rights probe she commissioned in March confirmed reports of discrimination first raised by students, including the complaint that black students faced tougher discipline and more suspensions than non-black students for similar offenses. The report found that Boston Latin officials failed to properly investigate students’ complaints, including an incident in which a black female student was called a crude racial epithet and threatened with lynching by a male student.
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