A proposal from Boston Public Schools would move the John D. O'Bryant school in Roxbury to the vacant West Roxbury High School campus.
Tevez Schale will graduate before construction is expected to begin on the relocation of the John D. O'Bryant School to the vacant West Roxbury High School campus, but he can't help but think of the impact it could have for his younger classmates.
"Most of our kids are like, people of color, and West Roxbury, that's really far from neighborhoods like Roxbury and Dorchester and East Boston," said Schale."It's going to be a long way to get there." Ethel Ferguson has a son who is a Junior at the O'Bryant school. Her older son went to West Roxbury High School before it closed.
"Moving them to another building -- I'm sorry, but I think they are making the biggest mistake they can make. I think they are going to lose a lot of students," said Ferguson."Right now, it's a 20-minute drive, and when you are going to move all these kids to West Roxbury, especially where the MBTA doesn't run well, the school buses don't run well, some of these kids are going to take an hour, hour and a half to get to school."Sign up for NECN newsletters.
As part of the proposal announcement, Boston Public Schools said the district has begun mapping out a transportation plan that will provide dedicated shuttles from transit hubs across Boston, including the West Roxbury MBTA Commuter Rail station, to connect students with the campus for classes and before and after-school programming.
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