Students Say Racial Hostilities Simmered at Historic Boston Latin School

Students, Meggie Noel and Kylie Webster-Cazeau from Boston Latin School went to the school districts governing body to discuss a racial issue that has been occurring on their campus. The school which used to be made up of 90 percent of white students began admitting more minorities. However recently these students brought up a few comments that they were told by other students that told them "Oh, you’ll get into college because you’re black" or racial slurs like “go back to Africa” during online debates. “It just felt like what we go through every day was completely disregarded,” Ms. Noel said. 

What I found more interesting was what the article said that according to state data, 32 percent of the students in the Boston Public Schools are black, 42 percent are Hispanic and 14 percent are white. But at the Boston Latin School, about 9 percent of students are black, about 12 percent are Hispanic and nearly half are white. 

I think its crazy how nearly half of the students are white and only 9 percent are made of black students and 12 of Hispanics! I understand that this is one of the first and oldest public schools in America but the fact that they don't admit a lot of minorities into the school says a lot about the school. It's an issue that needs to be fixed. I don't think there's an issue with the state, its this school in particular that isn't doing much to represent the minorities. 
Along with that, the minorities that are let in are treated badly and the school doesn't even do anything about it. Ms.Webster-Cazeau said "The fact that our administration failed to publicly denounce this behavior, or even say something to the students making the comments that was effective, has created an unsafe and racially hostile learning environment for students of color at B.L.S." If the faculty doesn't do anything about the hate speech that students are saying then no one will because they are the ones who have the power to say whats wrong and whats right. If they don't say anything to stop these students then who will? I wonder how long it will take the school to realize that there is a big racial problem going on. I'm glad these girls are speaking up because its sad to say that we let these things slide without paying a lot of attention.

Source: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/31/education/students-say-racial-hostilities-simmered-at-historic-boston-latin-school.html?_r=0