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Massachusetts has given a public safety grant to Brockton after quashing an effort to bring in the National Guard to help curb violence at the city's high...

 

As violence at Brockton High escalates, the district is grappling with a looming budget deficit, leadership turnover, and a clashing school committee.

Members of the school committee in Brockton, Massachusetts, are asking for the National Guard to help curb violence at Brockton High School

The math and computer science teacher with 22 years of experience at Brockton High said the level of violence among students has progressively gotten worse over the last decade.

Four members of the Brockton School Committee want the National Guard sent in to restore order at the chaotic Brockton High School, the largest in Massachusetts.

Teachers and parents said the fights and general chaos at the school, while an issue for some time, have escalated this year.