The Boston Latin School has the city's highest concentration of white students in a high school. But that is beginning to change, with recent surges in Black and Latino enrollment under a new admissions policy.
Marie Mercurio of Jamaica Plain is not a party to the lawsuit, but she shares the plaintiffs' concerns about the admissions policy’s fairness.
Tenth grader Jadon Berkson is a resident of the South End, and he’s resolutely in favor of the admissions change. “I’ve always thought that the way it was wasn’t working … There was a lot of privilege being overrepresented,” he said.Brennan’s friends hail from all over the city, rather than a few whiter, wealthier precincts: “West Roxbury, the North End, a lot of [Jamaica Plain],” he said.
Helping to guide the transition for many Black and Latino students is Rose Delorme Metayer, known to the students as “R.D.”Metayer runs the school’s alumni-funded center for “transition and support,” which serves students during study halls and after school. She jokes that she’s somewhere between an older sister and a mom.
“They've all been showing me their grades. ‘R.D., look! I've got straight hundreds right now,’"she said."And I say, ‘That's what I expect, because you can do it.”
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