Students arriving for school at Joseph P. Tynan Elementary were met with a barrage of cheers Friday morning, just two days after vandals left the South Boston school sullied with racist graffiti.
Mayor Martin J. Walsh, City Councilor Ayanna Pressley, and interim Boston Public Schools superintendent Laura Perille were among the hundred or so people who gathered for the so-called standout, which was organized as a way to support the school’s students in the wake of the incident.
“There’s a lot that’s happened, it’s a challenge, but [this is] beautiful,” said the event’s organizer, Thaddeus Miles, as he surveyed the collection of those gathered. “There’s a pathway to unity, and I think it had the opposite effect of what the person who wrote those particular things may have expected.”