Schools

Threats Alleged Over Lunch Scandal

Superintendent Pia Durkin says she and her family as well as Coelho Middle School principal Andrew Boles received physical threats.

Anger over the national headline-making scandal in which Coelho Middle School students were denied lunch for having insufficient accounts has led to threats against school district administrators, The Sun Chronicle reported.

Attleboro school district Superintendent Pia Durkin said at the Wednesday night Coelho PTO meeting she, her family and Coelho principal Andrew Boles had been physically threatened, The Chronicle reported. She declined to elaborate on the threats, according to the newspaper, but The Chronicle reported, "it was apparent that Internet commentary played a role."

School Committee member Ken Parent announced at Monday's committee meeting that a school district investigation is ongoing and this was not "something that the school system is just going to kind of let die out." Durkin told parents Wednesday the investigation had not finished and she would not respond to inquiries about it, The Chronicle reported. 

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