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Politics : Politics for Pros- moderated
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To: unclewest who wrote (87355)11/21/2004 9:04:53 AM
From: Bill  Read Replies (1) of 793597
 
The issue was community schooling.

West Roxbury had the Patrick Lyndon up to 6th grade and the Robert Gould Shaw junior high. You had to go to Roslindale High of Hyde Park High in those days if you couldn't get into Boston Latin, an exam school, if you wanted to stay in public school. (BTW, Roxbury Latin is a private school across from St. T's. The nation's oldest school is Boston Latin, located near Fenway park.) West Roxbury High wasn't built until about 25 years ago. Catholic schools also became an option for those who could afford it.

Anyway, W. Rox had few blacks, as did many of those neighborhood. When they started busing blacks into white neighborhoods to go to school, and busing whites into blacks neighborhoods, both the whites and the blacks objected. Any of them that could afford to left the city for Milton, Needham, Brookline or Newton.

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