TOUGH LOVE AT LATIN Inside the brick walls at Boston Latin School, students find friends, diversion, order, safety - and an exacting academic standard. "I can't' does not make it here," says headmaster Mike Contompasis, "then you change the whole mind-set." From: The Boston Globe | Date: November 7, 1993| Author: John Powers, Globe Staff | Copyright 1993 The Boston Globe. Provided by ProQuest LLC.Copyright information

First day of school at Boston Latin. Bewildered seventh graders clutching class schedules search for the elusive Room 102. "It's next to 137," a stranger in a necktie informs them. Gap-clad seniors, who have trod the marble corridors for five years, saunter toward the advanced-placement calculus class. From hushed rooms on three floors, their masters' voices set the tone for the year:

"I'm giving out a syllabus. That's a list of assignments."

"Don't get a binder that will drag y...

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