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词条 Hyde Park High School (Massachusetts)
释义

  1. History

     Founding and development  Challenging times  Later years  Closure and structure change 

  2. In media

  3. Locations

  4. Notable alumni

  5. Headmasters

  6. See also

  7. External links

  8. References

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| established = 1869
| type = Public high school
| principal_label = Headmaster
| principal = Linda Cabral (2000–2005)
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| faculty = 73 (1965)[1]
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| conference =
| teamname = Blue Stars
| location = 655 Metropolitan Avenue
Hyde Park, Massachusetts 02136
| country = United States
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Hyde Park High School is a defunct four-year public high school that served students in ninth through twelfth grades in the Boston neighborhood of Hyde Park, Massachusetts, United States. The school held its first classes in 1869, one year after the founding of the town of Hyde Park. The school was located at 655 Metropolitan Avenue from 1928 until its closure in 2005.

History

Founding and development

Hyde Park High School was established in 1869, in what was then the independent town of Hyde Park, Massachusetts.[2] In its early years, the school offered two courses of study for pupils, a four year classical preparatory education, and a two year business training course.[3] Hyde Park was annexed by the City of Boston in 1912, and the administration of Hyde Park High School was assumed by Boston Public Schools (BPS). Male and female pupils were taught separately until senior year, at which time the studies became co-educational.[4]Into the 1960s, the school was a popular choice for parents and students, even for those outside of the neighborhood, evidenced by the population increase at the school from 1,236 pupils enrolled in 1960 to 1,700 students in 1967. The headmaster reported a waiting list of 250 at that time.[5]

Challenging times

Racial tensions began to haunt the school, starting in 1970. The African–American population at the school in the early 1970s stood at 15%. On January 19, 1970, a dispute between groups of black and white youths at a bus stop resulted in a knifing incident, with two white pupils being slashed, and a black student arrested for assault. Faculty arriving on January 21 to school found that anti–black graffiti had been spray–painted on the front steps of the building. Half of the 1700 student population was absent following the incident.[6]

Starting in the fall of 1974, court ordered desegregation was implemented, more than doubling the population of black students. On September 19, racial violence cut classes short. Rocks were thrown at departing school buses. On October 15, a 15 year old white student was stabbed during a melee in the school’s main corridor, and at least six other students and one teacher went to the hospital. Students recall being locked in their classrooms. An 18 year old black youth from Dorchester was ultimately arrested in the stabbing.[7]

On account of the many occurrences of violence in the school and immediate area, the Boston Police Department’s Tactical Police Force were deployed to the neighborhood. Governor Francis Sargent summoned 450 members of the National Guard, over the objection of Mayor Kevin White. Sargent also made a request to President Gerald Ford to send federal troops to Boston to quell racial violence in the city, which was denied. BPS installed a magnetometer, borrowed from United Airlines, to scan all students coming into school.

Later years

Court ordered busing and the ensuing racial strife left a lasting impact on the school. Once described as a "country club" by its headmaster,[7] by the 1980s and continuing into the 90s, the school was fraught with claims of racism,[8] violence among students,[9] a consistent underperformer threatened with loss of accreditation,[10] and a frequent target for closure.[11]

Another Course to College was temporarily relocated and held classes in the basement of Hyde Park High School from 1989 until 1993.

Closure and structure change

Hyde Park High School ceased to exist following the 2004–05 school year. BPS Superintendent Thomas Payzant implemented a plan to create smaller schools within Hyde Park High and other neighborhood schools with the hope to improve education and attendance, prevent dropping out, and to give top students more rigorous assignments. The facility was renamed the Hyde Park Education Complex, and smaller autonomous schools and academic programs were created, each with a focused theme. The following are a list of schools and programs housed in the building since Hyde Park High School's closing.

Beginning in the 2005–2006 school year, the following schools opened in the facility:

  • Community Academy of Science & Health
  • The Engineering School
  • Social Justice Academy

At the end of the 2010–2011 school year, The Engineering School and the Social Justice Academy were closed. The Community Academy of Science & Health was relocated to Dorchester, leaving the building empty for the first time in 82 years.

Starting in the 2012–2013 school year, the following schools were moved into the building:

  • Boston Community Leadership Academy
  • New Mission High School

In media

In his television series Free to Choose, economist Milton Friedman used the school as an example of the failure of the public school system; highlighting the schools use of metal detectors, uniformed police and the state of the facilities.

Locations

The school was housed in several locations from its opening until 1902 when the selectmen dedicated a four-floor school building located at Everett Street and Harvard Avenue. Hyde Park High remained at the location until it was decided that a new, larger building was needed to house the school's growing population. Officials decided on a triangular site between Metropolitan Avenue and Harvard Avenue, the two story, $1,286,000 building being completed in 1928. The prior 1902 building then became the William Barton Rogers Middle School (since closed).

  • (1869–1870) 85 Williams Avenue (Fairmount School)[2]
  • (1870–1871) 1207 River Street (Liberty Hall)[2]
  • (1871–1874/1901–1902) Henry Grew School[2]
  • (1874–1901) Everett School[2]
  • (1902–1928) 15 Everett Street[2]
  • (1928–2006) 655 Metropolitan Avenue

The current Hyde Park Educational Complex is accessible by taking the MBTA bus 32 from nearby Forest Hills.

Notable alumni

  • William Monroe Trotter, newspaper editor, real estate businessman and civil rights leader. Founder of African-American newspaper the Boston Guardian[12]
  • Robert Frederick Drinan, Roman Catholic Jesuit priest, lawyer, human rights activist, dean of Boston College law school and Democratic U.S. Representative from Massachusetts
  • Russell Holmes, Massachusetts State Representative
  • Steven A. Barthell, author, Women R Stupid & Men R the Reason and Sex, Love & Pain: Methods to the Madness
  • Russ Lee, basketball player, sixth overall pick of 1972 NBA draft and Kevin Florio,football player,who went on to star as a running back at St.Mary's University in Halifax,Nova Scotia.

Headmasters

A total of nineteen educators served as headmaster of the school:

  • George M. Fellows (1869–1870)[2]
  • Samuel E. Thurber (1870–1872)[2]
  • Frank W. Freeborn (1872–1875)[2]
  • W.H. Knight (1875–1876)[2]
  • John F. Elliot (1876–1889)[2]
  • Jeremiah M. Hill (1889–1896)[2]
  • William H. Angleton (1896–1899)[2]
  • Merle S. Getchell (1899–1906)[2]
  • I. Arthur Lee (1906–1909)[4]
  • George W. Earle (1909–1934)[4]
  • Dennis C. Haley (1934–1940)[13]
    • Henry W. Arnold (Acting) (1941)[14]
  • Francis J. Horgan (1941–1959)[15]
  • Charles J. Keelon (1959–1966)[16]
  • David E. Rosengard (1966–1970)[5]
  • John F. Best (1970–1976)[17]
  • Michael A. Donato (1976–1989)[17]
  • Curtis D. Wells (1989–1996)[18]
  • A. Ray Peterson (1996–2000)[19]
  • Linda Cabral (2000–2005)[20]

See also

Boston Public Schools
Hyde Park, Boston

External links

Boston Community Leadership Academy website

[https://www.bostonpublicschools.org/Page/794 Community Academy of Science & Health website]

New Mission High School website

References

1. ^{{cite web|title=Manual of the Public Schools of the City of Boston|url=https://archive.org/details/manualofpublicsc1965bost/page/57|publisher=City of Boston via archive.org|accessdate=January 6, 2019}}
2. ^10 11 12 13 {{cite book |title=The Hyde Park Historical Record, Volumes 1-4 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PCcWAAAAYAAJ |date=1892 |author=Hyde Park Historical Society |publisher=Hyde Park, Mass.}}
3. ^{{cite book |title=Memorial Sketch of Hyde Park, Mass. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4SsWAAAAYAAJ|date=1888|author=Hyde Park, Mass. |publisher=)}}
4. ^{{citation|work=Boston Globe |title=HYDE PARK HIGH CADETS HAVE WON FIRST PLACE SIX CONSECUTIVE YEARS |date= April 17, 1934}}
5. ^{{citation|work=Boston Globe |title=Hyde Park High Population, Crowded |date= February 19, 1967}}
6. ^{{citation|work=Boston Globe |title=Tension eases at Hyde Park; 50% absent |date= January 21, 1970}}
7. ^{{cite web |url=https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2014/11/30/tracing-lives-shaped-busing-boston/vxviumhRVnWtgm1b8hcfqJ/story.html | title=For Hyde Park student, a life rerouted by school busing |author=Scott Helman |work= Boston Globe |date=November 30, 2014}}
8. ^{{citation|work=Boston Globe |title=School dispute sparks board shouting match |date= October 19, 1988}}
9. ^{{citation|work=Boston Globe |title=Youth stabbed at school; classmate, 18, is charged |date= February 10, 1983}}
10. ^{{citation|work=Boston Globe |title=Hyde Park High works to make progress |date= May 15, 1995}}
11. ^{{citation|work=Boston Globe |title=Boston schools panel proposes 5 closings to save $27m |date= June 27, 1989}}
12. ^{{cite journal|last=Harrison|first=William|title=Phylon Profile IX: William Monroe Trotter–Fighter|journal=Phylon|issue=3|volume=7|date=1946|jstor=272144|pages=239}}
13. ^{{citation|work=Boston Globe |title=HALEY HEADMASTER OF HYDE PARK HIGH |date= June 5, 1934}}
14. ^{{citation|work=Boston Globe |title=School Committee Reelects Joseph C. White Chairman |date= January 7, 1941}}
15. ^{{citation|work=Boston Globe |title=A.F. Reed Named Headmaster of Charlestown High School |date= June 27, 1941}}
16. ^{{citation|work=Boston Globe |title=Kozodoy Headmaster At East Boston |date= July 1, 1959}}
17. ^{{citation|work=Boston Globe |title=The Changing Guard at Hyde Park High |date= February 13, 1976}}
18. ^{{citation|work=Boston Globe |title=Wilson airs shakeup of school administration |date=August 20, 1989}}
19. ^{{citation|work=Boston Globe |title=Six new principals named by Payzant |date=August 1, 1996}}
20. ^{{citation|work=Boston Globe |title=Payzant names 3 to lead overhauled high schools |date=June 22, 2000}}
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