Hate Letters Sent to Black Staff Members at Milton Academy
Two anonymous racial hate letters sent to black staff members at Milton Academy are believed to have been sent by someone inside the private school, according to a Boston Globe report.
One letter was left for the school’s K-8 multicultural director following an October meeting on diversity issues held with faculty and staff. The other letter targeted the academy’s lower-school director, according to the report.
On Monday, Todd Bland, head of school at Milton Academy, sent parents an e-mail saying that the author of the messages remains unknown to authorities despite a “thorough investigation’’ by campus safety officers, who had been “in conversation with local law enforcement.’’ Bland also told parents he was disclosing the matter weeks later “because conversation about this incident has increased and we thought it prudent to share the facts.’’
Milton Police Chief Richard G. Wells Jr. told the Globe he believes “this was perpetrated from the inside’’ and described the investigation as “sensitive.’’
The college preparatory school has dealt with controversy in the past. In 2005, five members of the boys’ hockey team were expelled after a school investigation found the students had requested and received oral sex from a sophomore girl in a locker room.
Read the full Boston Globe article here.
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