The Safety Committee has begun patrolling hallways and stairwells during lunch, keeping out students without passes. Blair's administration is also more aggressively enforcing school policy in the hallways and might restrict students to the SAC during lunch.
The week before winter break, Magnet Biology teacher Angelique Bosse was teaching her first-period class on the third floor when she was interrupted by a small gray blur that flashed across the room. She had just enough time to see that it was a mouse that had scuttled out from under some cabinets, raced along the wall and darted under the door and into the hall.
As a 15-year-old, former freshmen David Dominguez allegedly stabbed two other freshmen, one of them several times in the back. Last month, two Whitman High School students—Andrew Klepper, 15, and Ryan Baird, 14—allegedly beat and sexually assaulted a young woman. John Lee Malvo, 17, admitted to pulling the trigger in at least one of the local sniper shootings, including the one that killed 72-year-old Pascal Charlot.
It is a game of skill, not of chance. It is a game where players fight for control and territory. It is a game where one wrong move can determine who wins and who loses. It is a game almost like war. It is the game of go.
Three weeks ago, juniors at Blair joined millions of their peers nationwide to take the PSAT. Presumably, everyone had an equal chance to qualify as National Merit Semifinalists.
Blair will host a free tutoring program beginning Oct 12 that will provide academic support for students attending Blair and its feeder schools.
The Safety Committee has begun patrolling hallways and stairwells during lunch, keeping out students without passes. Blair's administration is also more aggressively enforcing school policy in the hallways and might restrict students to the SAC during lunch.