BOSTON (MA)
Boston Herald
By: Jack Encarnacao
The city’s acting school chief said an incident in which the Rev. Shaun Harrison was alleged to have made sexual remarks to students at the Green Academy four years ago led to discipline but was not grounds for firing, while Boston’s top cop says complaints of drug activity on his street led to surveillance last year — but never turned up any actionable evidence.
Interim schools Superintendent John McDonough spoke to the press as he came out of a meeting with Mayor Martin J. Walshtoday on the arrest of Harrison in the attempted murder of a student prosecutors say he had put to work selling drugs.
McDonough offered no details on the complaint at Green Academy, but he said, “The incident at Green Academy, that was dealt with appropriately. It was recorded and it was documented and there was disciplinary action taken at the time, but that incident in and of itself was not grounds for termination.”
McDonough added that if “there are a number of behaviors and a progression of incidents that would indicate warranting more aggressive action be taken, it simply was not indicated in this case.”
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