Boston Mayor Convenes Meeting on Student Discipline

By Millicent Lawton

Responding to recent violent incidents and concerns about student-discipline problems raised by a high-school headmaster and others in the Boston Public Schools, Mayor Raymond Flynn of Boston late last week called a meeting of top city and school officials to try to reach agreement on how to address the problem.

During the more than two-hour meeting, the Mayor, Schools Superintendent Lois Harrison-Jones, the School Committee's chairman, Paul Parks, and representatives of other youth and city agencies, agreed that a small number of violent and abusive students are disrupting the city's high schools and should be removed to an alternate setting, a spokesman for Mr. Flynn said.

However, no agreement was reached on the procedures for removing those students or where they should go, said Neil Sullivan, Mr....