BROCKTON — Four members of the Brockton School Committee have asked Mayor Robert Sullivan to consider contacting Governor Maura Healey to ask her to temporarily send National Guard soldiers to Brockton High School “to prevent a potential tragedy.”
The committee members — Joyce Asack, Tony Rodrigues, Claudio Gomes and Ana Oliver — sent a letter to Sullivan on Thursday formally requesting that he ask Healey to deploy Massachusetts National Guard soldiers to the school “to assist in restoring order, ensuring the safety of all individuals on the school premises, and implementing measures to address the root causes of the issues we are facing.”
Brockton High School has been in increasing turmoil this school year with many teachers publicly describing shocking levels of chaos and violence inside the largest high school in Massachusetts.
Sullivan said Saturday only the governor can deploy the National Guard and he forwarded the School Committee members’ request to Healey. But the mayor does not support the use of the National Guard at Brockton High School, he said in the written statement from the mayor’s office Saturday.