The St. Mary’s School Girls Hockey Team won its third state championship in a row Sunday night at TD Garden in Boston. This is an incredible achievement given the capabilities of so many teams that the St. Marys Girls competed…
Category: Editorials
Turning around the Harrington and Connery Schools
It is easier said than done – that is – turning around the failing Harrington and Connery Schools. The teachers haven’t failed. It is the leadership that has failed. We urge the superintendent of schools to come out of the…
Irishman of the Year
Richard McGuinness is this year’s Friendly Knights of St. Patrick Irishman of the Year. Like his father before him, he is an educator and a former baseball coach at Lynn English. His four children are all college graduates. This is…
Failing schools are about failing administrations
News from the state last week that the Harrington and Connery elementary schools are failing came as no surprise to those of us with younger children who never have placed our children in such facilities. First and foremost, the facilities…
Charter school scam vote
Many, many schools in this city are underperforming or have students who cannot compare statistically to kids living in other towns less than two miles away. More kids here have lower reading and math scores than in most other cities…
Barton’s suspension unfair, Draconian
The suspension of Lynn English basketball coach Buzzy Barton by the Massachusetts Interscholastic Athletic Association is about as unfair as anything having to do with high school sports we have witnessed in years. That the gratuitous complaints of a principal…
Tiger Woods
Maybe you listened to him. Maybe you didn’t. But Tiger Woods’ apology on television last Friday was quintessential American media stuff. It was fabulous theater. Tiger even choked up a bit. Bottom line, we thought it was a US Open…
An injustice
The Massachusetts Interscholastic Athletic Association has come down hard on Lynn English High School at a hearing recently held last Friday. The MIAA asserted that a former assistant at Lynn English recruited East Boston High School student Cory McMillan to…
Job creation
Since the national economy almost collapsed a little more than twelve months ago, the crying need has been for new jobs and better jobs to replace the millions upon millions of jobs that were lost and which, we believe, are…
The Super Bowl
There was a little bit of everything for those of us who took the time to watch the Super Bowl Sunday. For many of us who take an interest in such things, without the Patriots taking the field for battle…