More than a hundred students, teachers, and parents packed a Boston School Committee meeting Wednesday night to oppose a sweeping facilities proposal that calls for shuttering two high schools and a middle school.
Many students from Urban Science Academy, West Roxbury Academy, and the McCormack Middle School held signs such as “Keep the McCormack together” or wore school jerseys as they cheered dozens of speakers who pleaded their case.
“You are tearing apart our school, and you expect us to be OK with that,” Bre’elle Foster, junior class representative at Urban Science, said during more than two hours of public testimony. Foster castigated School Department officials for failing to keep up with facility repairs and for subjecting the school to years of steep budget cuts.