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.
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The school committee members wrote that there has been a “disturbing increase in incidents related to violence, security concerns, and substance abuse.” They wrote that 35 teachers were recently absent, “underscoring the severity of the challenges we are facing.”