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Thursday, September 7, 2000

Elementary graduation is canceled

Associated Press

BOSTON - Teachers at a Boston elementary school canceled the school's annual year-end ceremony for fifth-graders, saying the students got into so many fights and were so disruptive they didn't deserve the celebration.
   "Because of their social and academic behavior this year, the principal and the teachers decided there was no reason to celebrate the year the students just had," said Tracy Lynch, a spokeswoman for the Boston Public Schools.
   Lynch said more than half of the 120 students at Mattahunt School regularly misbehaved this year, with many taking part in "suspendable offenses." She did not offer specific examples.
   Several students were expelled.
   Boston Citywide Parents Council spokesman Bob Tumposky called the decision to call off the year-end celebration "punitive and unfair."
   "This is treating 10-year-olds like they are adults and need to be punished," he said.
  

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