Report says Mission Hill School leaders ignored bullying of one student for years

CommonWealth Magazine reports what led to BPS putting the co-leaders of the Mission Hill K-8 School connected permission recently: An extracurricular lawyer's study that the schoolhouse deliberately ignored aggregate complaints, implicit respective years, from the parents of a sex non-conforming child, astir repeated bullying.

The alleged bullying happened portion Ayla Gavins was principal, and astatine the aforesaid clip arsenic 1 young pupil was repeatedly sexually attacking and bullying different students. That lawsuit led to a suit and a colony past period successful which the metropolis volition pay the families of 5 students $650,000.

Gavins resigned arsenic main successful 2019.