As Brockton High students and staffers cope with media attention surrounding problems with school violence, students reflect on the progress and positive aspects of their daily school lives.
Past the metal detectors and through the double doors, class change at Brockton High School offers the familiar sounds and scenes of high schools everywhere. The bell sounds, and students whip into hallways adorned with fliers or sports banners. Some beeline it by themselves; others slow down to chat and laugh with friends.
"I always hear, 'The students are bad. The students are violent. The students need to do better,’ ” said Katzki. “The students didn’t just one day wake up and decide to punch someone in the face. Something systemically has failed." Still, as the school community adjusts to these changes, the trickle of news stories and social posts related to fights serve as a reminders there’s more work ahead.Junior Sylvie Staco recently sat in psychology class when she and her classmates could hear a fight in the hallway through the closed door.
She said the focus on the violence has taken attention away from the many positive aspects of Brockton High, like its bevy of Advanced Placement and college-level courses, or its However, Morris said the teachers he spoke to for initial check-ins said they felt safe in their classrooms, but that conflicts in the hallways still sometimes get out of hand.
"It’s high school so of course it’s stressful," she added."You've got your own drama and family problems and life problems and then you have your classwork."
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