Brookline VOL 1, NO 4
BROOKLINE’S VOICE
SEPTEMBER 20, 2016
Brookline High School ranked 20th out of top 50 By Josh Resnek
The Voice If you are comparing Brookline High School to Newton South High School, as many people in town tend to do when measuring public school education, Newton South comes out on top and by a wide margin. Brookline High School was rated a 20th place position, and Newton South a 5th place position, out of the top 50 high schools in Massachusetts, according to a recent study published in Boston Magazine’s September issue. Newton North placed 35th. The study is not regarded as authoritative and the rankings aren’t set in stone, according to the analysts who collected the information for the magazine’s annual tome about which high schools in Massachusetts are best – and by default – which are not. Photo | Rick Ashley Shown above is the brilliant interior of the Arcade Building at the 300 block of Harvard Street, taken shortly after noon on a brilliant sunny day. If you know the building, there is nothing to say about its charm and utility. If you don’t know the building, get down there and check it out. Built in 1926 at a time when the Coolidge Corner area was changing from residential to commercial, its name was changed to the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.
Life-threatening anaphylactic shock grows more expensive By Alexander Culafi
The feeling of his throat tightening, and his tongue and facial muscles exploding and For The Voice painful until his skin might pop-kind of like If you have a severe allergy and experience a hot dog being boiled and the meat inside an anaphylactic reaction, an injection of expanding into the membrane — is terrifying. epinephrine, otherwise known as adrenaline, And then he can’t breathe! saves your life. For many, it already has – multiple times. ‘What’s even worse now is that if you don’t have $700 bucks, you can’t buy an epi-pen. The Voice publisher Joshua Resnek has had Ergo, you can’t save your own life at the a half dozen experiences with anaphylactic moment you need the medicine. Its just too shock. He’s allergic to aged cheese often expensive for most people to afford. sprinkled innocently into pizza sauce, or onto Its criminal, really,” he said. salads or in vegetable dishes. continued on page 3
However, the annual listing, which includes a great deal of subjectivism about which statistics are important and which aren’t, produced the expected mixed bag of comments and discussion among parents, high school students, teachers and administrators in Brookline. The matrix used to make ranking judgments was determined by George Recck, Director of the Math Resource Center at Babson college. He analyzed the results which came from a continued on page 3