Boston Latin officials seek to quash 'vampire' rumors

Complete denial... exactly what a vampire would say!

Well, now that they have settled that matter, there are no vampires in BLS, I feel better already.

Vampires huh? That's great. Maybe they should make the test for this school a little bit more challenging.

Cotton Mather would disagree. Am I mistaken? Didn't he justify the use of spectral evidence in the Salem Witch Trials?

This story bites.

I guess that went the way of the 4th floor swimming pool.... =)

Or did it?

My cousin, the wolfman, went to that school and he said that the undead are rampant among the student body and faculty. The dean of the school is actually el Chupacabra and the head of the history dept. is Darth Vader.

I think some of those kids need to be evaluated for mental health issues....

Maybe they could put up some of the crosses that those Boston College professors wanted removed from their classrooms. Anyone that shrieks in pain is either a BC professor or a vampire.

I graduated from BLS 40 years ago. All we had then was a fictional pool on the fictional 4th floor...or was it???

Vampires at school? That's a clever way to boost attendance. Why didn't I think of that?

Maybe they could put up some of the crosses that those Boston College professors wanted removed from their classrooms. Anyone that shrieks in pain is either a BC professor or a vampire.

Hmmm, BLS students are notorious for being up till all hours of the night, emailing and IM-ing each other in the wee hours of the morning . . . mere coincidence?

Is there any chance we could burn some witches while we're at it?

What is this revolutionary tool I keep hearing about? Someone told me it's called a wheel but I'm sure it's all hearsay.

elyse-- LOL. Too funny. Thank you for making me smile.

Wow and this is the famous exam school that everyone raves about and compares to the elite private schools? What next werewolves at Milton Academy? Godzilla at Nobles?

No vampires...good....more students for the warewolves!

This wouldn't have anything to do with the release of "Twilight" on DVD last Saturday would it? Living out a little Bella/Edward fantasy kiddies?

Why should that school be any different? Bloodsuckers are everywhere.

That sound you hear is the ACLU running to defend the vampires in this obvious case of discrimination

We must be living on the hellmouth... where's Buffy when you need her

With the recent release of Twilight on DVD, the sensational drama and mystery surrounding vampires has been exacerbated. Kids are more fascinated than ever but simply do not understand the ramifications of making such claims. Who am I to say they don't exist and aren't hanging in the halls of BL? Happened at Forks High School, Forks, WA. Why not Boston?

Oh, Lisa! You and your stories! "Dad, Bart is a vampire." "Beer kills brain cells." Now, let's get back to that... building thingy... where our beds and T.V... is.

What did the vampire teacher say to the annoying vampire student who kept interrupting class?

You're driving me Batty!

Wow, I'm glad I got out of there before this happened. This is the official statement of "BLS has gone down the drain."

Mr Chuck... Hilarious!! I laughed outloud..

These students obviously don't have enough homework to do.

This is about the most pointless, uninformative story I've read in a long time....

um.... really. When did Boston.com become The Onion?????

Kids these days... Maybe they should try to become a better human before anything else.
By the way, I found the 4th floor swimming pool when I was a sixie... Did you know there is a hot tub on the 6th floor now?

Funny story... it made me laugh, too, especially since I believe that really smart students attend these two Latin shcools.

Not only is this story ridiculous, and wonder why it would be published, but I can not believe I would be associated with students of such a mentality. Honestly, BLS students shouldn't should a bit more dignity than letting themselves get sucked into such a rumor.

This is beyond ridiculous. Children (yes they are children) periodically spin nonsense tales in order to satisfy their need for drama. I can understand a headmaster sending out a "knock it off" message to the school population......... but this was printed in "The Globe"? Oh my goodness! What childish rumor shall we see in print next?

In unrelated news, Boston Latin today unveiled their new "Garlic Free" lunch menu...

Talk about things getting blown out of proportion -- this is a non-story. Maybe next we can hear about any rumors and silliness that happen at other middle and high schools. Must be a very slow news day.

Ha ha! The fourth floor swimming pool... how could I forget?! This story is an embarrassment to all BLS Alumni.

Wow, all this stemming from that time after the in-class movie when the teacher drew up the shades and a few students hissed and cringed at the blinding sudden sunlight.

Happens to the best of us.

Some of us are just blessed with really sharp teeth. LOL

It's not a joke their really are vampires at that school. This is a huge cover up of a group which drinks each others blood at the school. The board doesn't want this thing taken seriously but it is dead serious. That school is the oldest in the country and has more secrets then you wish to know. This is not the movie twilight but it sure sounds like it.

This story is very misleading and inaccurate. From first hand reports there has been a little clique of girls who fashion themselves as vampires and request that shades be drawn for them during homeroom etc. The clique is led by one girl who really does have mental health issues, and things have gotten out of hand recently because they had started cutting themselves and exchanging blood, which led to a large Hep. B scare etc. Another rumor is that one of the girls had actually bitten another on the neck and drawn blood. Police presence was needed. The story implies that BLS students believe in vamps and are scared. This is asinine. They are scared because there have been rumors of gun threats and violence. This is a bizarre issue but that is no reason to imply that BLS is full of idiots.

clearly the vampires are at public schools, not Boston Latin

I think April Fool's Day came early this year!

I went to Boston Latin and can attest to the fact that this is a cover-up. Not only am I a graduate of this fine school, I am also a vampire.

All your blood are belong to us.

we're all taking it as a joke here at bls. and rumors are spreading like crazy

This has got to be a joke, right? Or maybe I've just forgotten how absolutely punchy four to six hours of homework a night can make a person. Or at least, that's what Romulus and Remus used to whisper to me from under their wolf-mother.
sumus primi

This has cover up written all over it. The police dont visit school for rumors. a kid got arrested. this article is just a way for bls to save face. and ben franklin didnt graduate.

I'm actually glad, now that I've read this piece of journalistic brilliance, that the Globe has cut their Science and Health sections. Otherwise, how would they have the resources to focus on reporting such crucial matters of great civic weight and import?

"Seriously?" said Melissa Duggan.

I concur.

Wow... if this is the kind of thing BLS is getting headlines for, I'm very glad I went the ISL route! And why is this featured as a main news story? C'mon Boston.com...

actually, the story is true, sort of. Thanks to BLS ninth graders. A small group of students believe themselves to be vampires, and bite each other all the time. There are no actual vampires, just some silly students. However, twilight has nothing to do with it, as these few hate the book and have been acting this way since they were sixies. I'm surprised the adminstration a. just found out b. is denying it c. allowing such people to go to our school

The hype around it however, came because police were there on a routine inspection, that had nothing to do with the vampires. One girl did, however, attempt to bite another when asked if she was a vampire. Her boyfriend is threatening to shoot up the school...mmm, yeah, i feel so much safer now

Now this is a story that goes for the throat

I have never seen Louis Farrakhan listed as a graduate of Boston Latin. In his biography, it states he is a graduate of the prestigious Boston English High School under as of Louis Walcott. Maybe the editor at the Boston Globe is trying to get a job with one of those other gossip newspapers that we pass in the grocery store. VAMPIRES IN HIGH SCHOOLS. WITCHES IN SALEM. ALIEN GIVES BIRTH TO PRESIDENTS BABY, etc.

I think this rumor is directly connected to the blood being sucked out of the Boston Latin budget for next year. Maybe it's time for a little more garlic in the cafeteria.

I went there, took the test, and distinctly remember a Vampire check box in the ethnicity section. In fact, growing up my parents encouraged me to check said box to improve my chances of getting in; prompted by rumors that the school had a "quota" to meet. Didn't Van Helsing's son recently sue the school charging discrimination? I can't imagine there are many left at this point.

I'd put good money on this being a very elaborate senior prank started by a few smart kids that is now going exactly to plan. Way to be Boston Globe.

BLS Class of '02

Okay so no "Vampires" but did they notice the students sucking eachother blood in the halls????

Do the BLS students also still believe in Santa and the Toothfairy? I did get quite a kick out of the story, pretty funny.

The only vampires to worry about are those in public office, who are draining the life blood out of every taxpayer's child.

Rumors bite. XD

Okay, now this is a little ridiculous. I know when I was at the old GLS in Codman Square, there were some rooms up where we would edit the Jabberwock that we weren't allowed into--we always suspected there was "something" lurking there, but GLS left the building years ago, and I didn't expect them to take the monsters with them!

Undoubtedly kids nowadays are being inundated with vampire stories, whether it's through Buffy, Twlight, or an excruciating long list of media based vampires. While most of us would dismiss such stories with no problem, we must remember that Latin school students, regardless whether they're at Latin Academy or BLS, are very young when they start school, and there is tremendous pressure to outperform their counterparts are regular schools. They probably need reassurance that their fears are not justified. Kids tend to believe in a lot of things which adults don't, and we should remember that when we discuss the myriad problems that are brought to light, even if it's such a ridiculous topic as vampires or other preternatural creatures.

We were in their shoes once, so people taking them a little more seriously would be very helpful to all the students, and yes, the faculty as well.

One thing about living in Boston I never could stomach... all the damn vampires.

I don't find this very surprising...BLS kids are always known for peculiarities. I'm glad I graduated before it went to hell...oh wait vampires don't die.

According to my daughter and one of her friends, a kid was attacked and bitten in the cafeteria during lunch - the real reason for the police showing up . . . she insists one kid was arrested and taken away . . .

Of course, this could just be a rumor run amuck - a la the rumor around Jeff Spicolli's pizza in "Fast Times . . ."

I'm sure it is a hoax concocted by the students at BLS & the headmaster is too PC to let it go without addressing it. The goal of the hoax was most likely a public acknowledgement of the rumor, which has been accomplished.

As the Goths said on South Park, "Vampires are so lame."

Farrakhan went to English, not Latin

Don't worry folks. These child-geniuses will have moved on to bigger and better things in a couple of weeks. If they thought vampires were scary, wait until the Easter bunny hits.

This would never happen at BLA...

Did a Hot Topic open up nearby?

Well let's tax them then. It's only right. Vampire tax, 13%.

I'm embarrassed to say I went here... Why would Mooney Teta even send out a letter trying to "quash" theses rumors; absolutely ridiculous... almost makes you miss Ms. Kelley

I heard a rumor that Frankenstein was enrolled there too.

I'd still carry around a pocket mirror. Just in case.

And what if these "rumors" were more about some kids acting in an inappropriate way and there was a danger to other students? Does anyone remember Columbine?

This explains all the teachers swooping down your neck to hand you a misdemeanor mark for going to your lockers during unapproved times. Come to think of it, I had a student teacher, Ms. Bat, for Elglish back when I went there. Coincidence? I think not...

A hot tub? Wow, they've come a long way since I was there in the 60's! (Passes available now by the 4th floor pool? rofl) Btw, while you can enhance their intelligence, only time and experience will enhance their maturity. They're KIDS for pete's sake. Give 'em a break! Of course, it's all fun and games 'til someone breaks a fang!

Rumor?

It's not a rumor. Just because there aren't supernatural vampires doesn't mean there aren't Vampire-like things happening.
Yesterday a girl was attacked by another girl claiming to be a vampire. The attacker bit so hard the victim bled and needed stitches. In fact, there is a group of friends that all claim to be "vampires". This group dislikes twilight because it "misrepresents" vampires. One female member happens to date a supposed warewolf... Upon taking the girl away, a police officer was bit by the same girl who attacked someone before. This entire event sparked "bag checks" at BLS today along with police presence. BLS has not only gone rampid with discussion and rumors as any high school would, but BLS has had an assault.

Cover up anyone?

The problem isn't with the students, its the Officials putting out such a stupid Memo, and then Boston.com deciding to run a story on it, and me for earding it and then commenting on it!!!
WE ARE ALL DOOMED!!

My son goes to BLS and told me all about it yesterday.... i guess some kids were going around biting other kids...I was like wtf....he was wondering if it would make the news.

Funny thing is twilight was the first thing that came to my mind

the extreme hype over these mediocre books and movie boggles my mind! what's worse is that most of the fans of these books are crazed, immature tween/teen girls who either seem to think that Edward is real or scream how much they want the actor that plays him to marry them. a little teenage fantasy is one thing, but some of these fans take it to an absurd level: harassing the actor, causing riots at malls where he appears, even rumors that they physically attacked people who posed a negative opinion about the book! I've "met" (via forums mostly) more than a few delusional fans that actually wanted to move to Forks, WA and are pretending to be actual vampires!

Just another way students can bully and harrass those a little different from themselves.. I am sure the "in" kids started this rumor against anyone who is not considered the "in" crowd.......................... This story is so pointless.

Wow! I knew inner city kids were statistically "under performing", but this really brings it out into the daylight (yes, pun intended). I remember my cousins attending BLS years back, and how prestigious that event was; now I realize that this school must have really low entrance requirements, or recruit the mentally ill.

Sumner Redstone-- that explains it!

This story really sucks!

this is exactly what happens in ever high school in the nation...RUMORS SPREAD LIKE WILD FIRES...

I think Lynn Mooney Teta is behind this.

It's a waste of the police's time as well as the taxpayers money.

The sad thing is that it must have caused so much fear and loathing that the school officials actually had to release a statement saying there were no vampires in the school. Of course, that's just like the government issuing a statement saying there is no Area 51....

I go to BLS and this was a joke, everyone needs to chill.

it's not april 1st yet...is it? hmmmmm

Folks should relax for two reasons --
1. Teenagers of all social stripes and classes love to take something like this and run with it.
2. This is a blog. It is an extension of the Globe devoted to tidbits of news and human interest stories.

BTW, I would encourage any adults looking for a reason to love vampires (either "again", or for the first time) to watch HBO's True Blood series.

You all are making fun of the students here but you have no idea whats really going on here. We, the students, obviously know that there are no such things as real vampires. However, there was a group of freshmen girls who were biting each other's necks and drawing blood in the bathrooms. As well as bringing umbrellas to school to protect themselves from the sun and cutting their wrists so that they appeared pale.

Please don't insult us or our intelligence. We know they're are no vampires but that is what these girls deem themselves as. I would expect that the police would take our safety serious but I guess not. This is a cover-up. The lead girl was arrested and the rest were suspended. So don't insult us.

Haha, I think this just made my day.

They need to burn down the Hot Topic if they ever want to stop these damn Vampires.

Muhuhahaha... I can't believe I'm getting away with this again! Foolish humans...

I speak for the current BLS community when I say that nobody believed that there were actual vampires. There was a rumor that went around that there was a group of students who thought they were vampires, and we all just wanted to laugh at them.

Perhaps they should bring in Buffy just to be absolutely sure. I mean minions or familiars of the undead are instructed to deflect truth-seekers

Is anyone else curious to know who the unidentified, quoted "Melissa Duggan" is?

BLS has apparently become a special needs school and has buffoons on its staff.

Boston.com/Boston Globe is assinine for running this and I am the biggest idiot of all for reading AND posting a comment.

Smoot saw a chupacabra behind a building at MIT.

Yes, I am sure the police officers looked around the schools and saw no vampires. Just dead corpses sucked of all thier blood, just no vampires.....

THIS IS A COVER UP TO MAKE YOU ALL THINK THERES NOTHING GOING ON! Yes, there are no vampires, duh, Latin kids are smarter than that, give us some credit. But there ARE freakin girl biting on each other's necks and drinkin blood in the bathrooms! THAT IS A PROBLEM NO MATTER WHAT YOU GUYS SAY!

The future of this country looks worse and worse with each passing day.
The dunbing down of America continues

Of course there are no Vampires. That would be silly. It's the ALIENS they need to watch out for !!

Wait till they're grown up. Real life vampires in the adult world are even more viscious. Darn lawyers and auto mechanics.

At Girls' Latin School, the swimming pool was on the 5th floor - because we really had a 4th floor.

Hey, all you mothers who let your preteens read Twilight et. seq. because there's no harm in it - you are wrong and stupid!

Hmm, BLS teachers do have a way of sucking the life out of whatever subject they teach. Probably warrants further investigation.

This might be the stupidest story I've ever read. It is not newsworthy and I am almost certain that all of the students are laughing that it has been taken serioiusly.

Has it occurred to no one that this closely resembles the time when large numbers of uninformed adults became extremely concerned about the "dangerous" straight edge movement. They thought it was scary goth kids contemplating gunning down their classmates, when in fact it was a voluntary movement aimed at avoiding drugs and sex.

Could it be that the BLS students just put one over on their elders?

Vampires? Really? You're kidding me...

Stop reading those stupid Twilight books. Seriously. Pathetic.

Its not April 1 already, is it?

I told you my 9th grade Latin teacher sucked.

I was thinking the same thing really???. Except the only thing that seperates this from the Onion is that there are vampires at BLS. The school is actually steeped in vampire tradition. They haven't harmed a human though since 2003. Thats when upon Count Soohoo's request the cafeteria started serving TruBlood.

Unbelievable. Boston.com, please start actually covering real BPS news, like the Teachers Union negotiations, the new budget and cutting of teachers, and real news that actually affects those of us with kids (about to start) at BPS.

I suppose now they'll have to start busing vampires to make Boston schools more balanced between the living and the undead.

ABSTINENCE HAS PREVAILED!!!!

BWAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAH!

I wish i was in highshcool again...

I think we can now safely say that the smartest kids in the city go to Latin Academy...

April 1 isn't for another week, guys.

Count Chocula? I saw him on the Cereal Box today, he is a creeper. Must be taking over Boston Latin.

Kids frightened about vampires? Heck back in my day we went looking for vampires. What else are you going to do with a wooden stake and some silver bullets? And we would fight those vampires in our bare feet, backwards without night vision goggles.

Kids nowadays are wimps. If Latin wants to get rid of their vampires I'll do it for 'em. It'll cost 'em but I guarantee my work (plus I'm fully vampire bonded).

Vampires are historically known for their well-run and profitable Bake Sales...try the brownies...

This story acts like there being vampires in the school is a legitimate possibility.

"I'm not sure whether [the supposed vampires] were among the student body or whether they were inhabiting the old corners and crevices of the building."

Really?

'08 (we're gone for one year and the place falls apart)

Oh please...My BLS daughter was laughing about this story last night. I don't believe there were any BLS kids hiding under their beds worried about vampires. They're much more worried about the current school budget and the fact that they may lose their entire arts department next year--orchestra, art, theater--modern language instruction, teachers, nurses, guidance counselors, etc. I honestly can't believe that we have to look to the Herald for any serious coverage of that story while the Globe focuses on a tiny group of Goth wannabes biting each other.

Funny how they left out the arrests that were made......if this were dorchester high it would have been about the police and arrests

Any person at BLS who claims to be a vampire should be treated as such. Meaning they should be hunted down and defeated.

this is the stupidest thing i have ever heard. rumors of vampires? are you serious? why is this news? was it really necessary for the Boston Police to go down there and speak with these kids saying there are no vampires? what a waste of time. this is almost as ridiculous as the Aqua Teen Hunger Force "bomb scare."

I graduated from BLS and I find it insulting that people assume since a few kids are running around thinking they are vampires that every BLS student is an idiot or needs help mentally. A friend of mine recently watched a documentary and she told me how role playing has become a new trend for teenagers that are depressed and trying to fit in. On the documentary there was a story of a boy and some of his friends who believed they were vampires and they drank each others blood because it gave them "life." This same boy also believed it was his duty to kill his parents. I think maybe the responsibiltiy should be placed on some of these parents who aren't paying enough attention to their children and who maybe should consider getting their kids some help.

hey while we are at it lets talk about ALLLLLL mythical creatures that are now real WHOA I think I just saw a unicorn fly by my office window.....I BLAME THE PARENTS OF THESE OBVIOUSLY DISTURBED CHILDREN.......GET THEM SOME HELP FOR CRYING OUT LOUD!!!!!!!!!

If students are biting other students that is assault -- a flat-out violation of the code of acceptable behavior and those students should be dealt with accordingly. This is a terribly worded article implying that some students actually believed there were vampires; when the reality is that some students self-identified as vampires and behaved in ways that were stupid and dangerous. And if they have been bringing umbrellas, requesting shades be drawn, cutting themselves and drinking or licking each others blood then that (seriously peculiar) behavior needs to be confronted and dealt with. In a school where you can get a misdemeanor for wearing jeans on gym day, there ought to be some sort of (serious) consequences for this.

I'm a senior at Boston Latin whose playing D1 basketball and I just wanna say that my muscles are really really big and I'm gunna personally beat up all of these vampires myself because I'm full vampire not half like these fakers. I overcame my weakness to sunlight by going to tanorama 4 times a week to work on my skin tone and i gotta say im looking good for baha, i mean really good.

Oh, man. This is just the kind of thing that could drag the whole school down. Though I disagree with Ms. Mooney-Teta on some things, obviously discussing these rumors is making the situation worse. I'm sure that I speak for the student body when I say that I don't want my school defined by this exaggerated isolated incident. I'd also like to say that comments aimed at the entire student body (and meant to judge us all) because of something that happened within a minority display an ignorance that goes beyond anything our students have shown.

Does anyone else see the irony of posters going on and on about how stupid someone would have to be to believe in vampires, and how BLS is special needs.

Let me ask you something, how stupid would YOU have to be to believe that high school students are actually afraid of real-life vampires?

They're just giving each other hickies.

you're kidding me right?

that headmaster is an embarrassment, sending a letter home to parents? i garuntee they're all laughing at her right now, and think whether their kids should be going to BLS, not because of Vampires, but because of the stupidity of the faculty

this was obviously a serious (see posts by Inside source, post 89 and post 98). The fact that the Globe printed such a story without getting the real details is pretty disturbing, especially considering how tragic it is that these girls were actually drinking blood and actually cutting themselves.

embarassing to latin school and all who ever went there

Whatever happened to the old adage, "all the news that's fit to print?"
Granted there are "sick" individuals in society that believe they are "vampires" and do get their proverbial chuckles by cutting themselves and drinking blood. They need some kind of help that obviously high school can not offer them. The school addressing it was appropriate but in an inappropriate way. I personally don't think that the entire on-line news reading public needs to read stories about high school students who are so "attention" driven that they will now resort to any actions and lifestyle to get their "15 minutes of fame."
Let's start putting stories of real people and real news back in the news, shall we?

As a BLS graduate, I am pretty embarrassed by this. This article will lower people's opinion of BLS considerably, and that affects all Alumni. From some of the posts, I gather it was merely a cadre of silly little girls, who should all be expelled. Latin School is a tremendous opportunity that stands head and shoulders above all other public schools in Boston, and if some students can bring shame on it like this, they don't deserve the opportunity it gives. The vast majority of hard-working, brilliant minds at the school don't deserve to be thrown in with such morons, and I hope the headmaster puts a swift end to their attendance.

BTW - if the posts here are accurate, then the author of this article made sweeping statements about the student body that are tantamount to lies. If it was a small group of what I hope are soon to be EX-latin students, then this clip implies a level of hysteria that's grossly inaccurate. Shame on Boston.com for embarrassing an important Boston institution needlessly.

Go Red Sox! beat the Vampires!

yo staight up st0p haraSsiiN da BLS KiiDS! dey gotsz feelins too!

As a current student at Boston Latin School, I would like to make it known that the students do not actually believe that there are vampires walking the halls. There was a rumor spread that there are a few students who think themselves to be vampires, and because it is an unusual story about these students, it became a popular topic of conversation and quickly spread throughout the school. Boston Latin School has not gone "down the drain", the student body simply got over excited about a silly rumor.

So that WAS a hickey on my son's neck. He told me he got bit!!!

seriously...what a stupid story. this is the reason the globe and local news will go out of business by 2010

Sheesh. Grow up already. When I was your age, we had UFO sightings like normal people.

Seriously? What is this and why is wasting space on this site?

I thought my English teacher had red, glowing eyes. But then I assumed that was the Jolt I had for breakfast talking.

Our vampires were cooler than your vampires.

THATS HILARIOUS I COULD UNDERSTAND IF THEY WERE A BUNCH OF 6 YR OLDS AT THE SCHOOL, BUT SOMETHING TELLS ME THERE MUCH OLDER...FOR SUCH A "PRESTIGOUS" SCHOOL THE CHILDREN SURE DONT SEEM VERY INTELLIGENT... HAHA LAME STORY THOUGH

Louis Farrakhan went to English High, not BLS.

Well, for one Boston English is across the street from Boston Latin so it's possibly to have made that mistake, in terms of Farrakhan.

Okay, this whole thing is ridiculous. As a student currently at bls, I can tell you that there aren't 2000 students running around the building, obsessing over the Twilight movie, thinking that there are actually vampires are in our school. Honestly, everyone knows it's fake...it's just a joke. Which is why I think it's even more hilarious that this is posted on the front page of Boston.com and that there is a Fox25 truck outside.

This article makes it sound like we're all really unintelligent kids; we're not. So read into this as much as you want, but remember that this whole story is based on a slew of high school rumors and that our headmaster never had to explicitly tell us that vampires do not exist.

I didn't think it was possible, but I am now dumber for having read that article. Funny posts though.

Ah TruBlood, the only vamp show worth watching. Second season yet?

I remember back in elementary school, some girl like to act like horses and would run around the playground with rulers hitting their bottoms and galloping around.

I wonder what ever became of them? LOL

It's okay kids.
We just got over 8 years of Vampirism from the Bush-Cheney administration and the economy has been SUCKED DRY !

Seriously pathetic. Believing in vampires??? And this is news worthly how?

HAHAHAHAHAHA oh man.... kids these days are so lame HAHAHA

Has anyone on this board ever tasted their own blood? It tastes gross why would you wanna drink someone else's? The fact is these children need to grow up and think about how they are behaving and if you are indeed a parent of a student from this particular school I got news YOU ARE WASTING YOUR HARD EARNED TAX DOLLARS!!!!!!! Your child could get a perfectly good education at public school I definately did and hey we never had vampires roaming the hallways. We did have the fake pool though but I guess that is something that happens in alot of schools. I also concur that whatever students are behaving this way should be expelled and never let back in its very unfair to the otehr kids who do attend school and want their education.

hey boston globe, you stole my story!

Thank God I go to a prestigious college so that I will not be needing to put Boston Latin School on my resume. This story is ridiculous and insulting. The fact that Ms. Mooney-Teta allowed this to become public information makes me seriously question her sense of dignity. Ever since Ms. Kelly left the school has in fact been deteriorating. The fact that this is on a website viewed by much of the state is embarrassing. I'm sure Harvard is thinking very seriously on their recent acceptances for the 2009-2010 school year and their sanity. This article makes every child at BLS seem like an idiot, when in reality it should not be blamed on the entire student body. What a disgrace to the legacy Latin has made for itself for the past 374 years.

HAHAHA OH MAN KIDS TODAY ARE SO LAME HAHA. VAMPIRES??? DUDE. SERIOUSLY? Get girlfriends... play football.... do something!

I miss the good old days of Boston Latin where if there was a Vampire problem or the administraion was being an inconvenience, Tarpy and Cahill would just lock and load and at lunch time you wouldn't even know there was a that morning. You would see their smiles in sixth period and just know they must have one upped somebody that morning, yesterday it would have been those vampires.

"OK, here's what we've got: the Rand Corporation, in conjunction with the saucer people, under the supervision of the reverse vampires,are forcing our parents to go to bed early in a fiendish plot to eliminate the meal of dinner. We're through the looking glass, here, people..." I love my alma mater but seriously this stuff is satire gold. However, I want the absolute truth and explanation of what happened here and somewhat of a black eye for BLS community seeing as we are supposedly from the best and oldest school in the nation. God, what's wrong with kids these days

South Park for the win!

After all these years, I would just like to take a minute to thank the good Sisters of St. Joseph for keeping St. Pats in Natick and Marian HS in Framingham, vampire free. Penguin power!

As a currently enrolled student of Boston Latin School I would like to say that this article is ludicrous. The rumors of vampires going around the school was a joke and the fact that this article was even written, nevermind found on the front page of Boston .com shows how unprofessional the editors of this website are. There are certainly more important things going on in Boston to be informing the public about. This journalist should be ashamed of himself to sink this low.

there are really vampires idk why people think this is so funny
this is so serious

I can't believe that so many people are being IDIOTIC about this. Some students in the school are taking it seriously and blowing it out of proportion. 70% of the time, I'm hearing cracks about 'vampires', and nasty jokes about the girl who was the center of the rumor. And people honestly shouldn't be so condescending towards all of BLS (even though, there are a number of nitwits here), at the same time too. My theory is that we've all gone crazy due to stress. :)

A bit silly, of course, but leave it to the Globe, as usual, to go out of its way to make a big deal out of the issue, so that its suburban intellectual editors can have a good laugh and one of Boston's most famous and respected institutions can be put to ridicule, weakening our city. No tears will be shed when the Whineships (sic) and their friends are out on the street competing for jobs covering movie stars for aol.com once this rag goes down.

Stop insulting our intelligence and calling us mental. BLS is one of the top schools in the country. There is a whole lot more to the story that was left out of this article. Clearly, NOBODY thought there were real vampires. There's a hell of a lot more to the story.
This article's embarrasing and they should've left this matter in our schools' hands. But you should all get your facts straight before you go calling a student body of 3000 people stupid.

The year: 1962. The place: Salem, Massachusetts. The problem: witches flooded the streets. Did they really? NO! Were the Salem Witch Trials rejected? No, they were supported. At Boston Latin School approximately 347n years ago, the boys attending were learning about how witches existed. The rumors circling the school were about the witches they say around the area. The biggest news to them was the lastest witch that had drowned in the Charles or whatever else.
Vampires? Witches? Not too much of a difference.
Chill out.

This article is absolutely absurd. An "unusual step" by sending out a notice to faculty & parents? Obviously you would want that if an assault and threat happened within the school...

And if the Boston Police spokesman is quotes for saying he's "not sure" about the vampire rumors, what's the point of even quoting him?

Boston Globe, please refrain from publishing a story that falsely suggests such ridiculous things.

LISTEN UP. AS A SENIOR AT BLS CURRENTLY I WOULD LIKE TO CLEAR THIS UP FOR YOU.I just read every single post on here. It is ridiculous the way you all think that BLS is less credible now and that its students are crazy.
WE NEVER ACTUALLY BELIEVED THERE WERE VAMPIRES. WE LAUGHED AT THE STUPIDITY OF FRESHMAN GIRLS ACTUALLY BELIEVING THAT THEY WERE VAMPIRES!This story is bullshit. It is a total cover up and does not mention a single event that took place that lead up to these rumors. Yes the rumors have become ridiculous, but there really are freshman girls who believe they are vampires. For the real facts READ POSTS 48 39 74 89. AND STOP BLAMING TWILIHT> THEY HAVE BEEN DOING THIS FOR A LONG TIME AND THINK TWILIGHT IS "A DISGRACEE TO VAMPIRES"

My kids are werewolfs but they go to Latin Academy.

The Twilight series doesn't have much to do with this at all. The vampires made their own idea of what a vampire should be before Twilight became popular. It started a year or two ago, but recently, more people have noticed them and have become involved. Surprisingly, there are only two vampires, they do have some "followers", but they are not as into it as the original two vampires. The school makes it seem like everyone is harassing the vampires and targeting them, when the truth is that these vampires are the ones harassing the school. They pretend to bite people and tell people about being a vampire. The school isn't making up rumors about them.

i find it sad that this announcement made in school was even brodcasted. we aren't stupid you know. we know the diffrence between fiction a reality.

This is the worst reporter ever. This does not have any valid sources from the students and is dropping out a lot of important facts. This article shouldn't even be here since it does not have all the information.

for all the parents calling bls kids stupid ,
im guessing your kids didnt make it into the school.

and this deffinately is a cover up.
i know the girls and the boy.
the boy is not a werewolf nor thinks he is one.
oh and going back on the coverup story,
so mooneyteta emailed my mom and was like "the police were there for an annual checkup"
but in the article it says hit says that the main police said that they were there because of the rumor...

so i thnk that this is a cover up so the alumni arent embarassed and stop giving us money. since we needa lot cuz od the budget cuts.
but yeah this is actually scary stuff. we know theyre not vampires buuut theyre still this weird cullt.

Hey, EXPECTING~09 - turn off your caps lock and learn to spell - in your own terms, you DONT SEEM VERY INTELLIGENT . . .

Lame indeed . . . "THERE" much older, yes . . . most of them know the difference between they're, there and their . . .

Globe: In other news, Generallissimo Francisco Franco is still dead.

All of you don't understand the situation. The only information you have is what this story says and the cover up from the headmaster. A girl literally bit someone and sucked a little bit of their blood!!! That's why the student body was talking about vampires. Obviously there are not "real" vampires but this girl definatley bit the senior and tried to suck her blood. The way they put the story makes it seem like the students need mental help.

Honestly, I was discriminated against because I am WHITE, and they weren't letting enough minorities in, so I got the boot, and stayed in BPS my whole life. If I had known it was going to be like this, I would have foregone the test altogether, clearly they aren't all they are cracked up to be!! HAHA!

THIS IS A HUGE COVERUP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

LET THE TRUTH REVEAL ITSELF!

I went to college with many people who went to Boston Latin. Several of them were vampires. I believe this story 1000%

As a student of BLS, I feel very offended that people think we actually believe there are vampires. I have to admit that from all that i heard, "vampires" was just a name that we called the girls. I must state that we most definately do not believe there are real vampires. The silly actions of the girls should be dealt with. The school's reputation should not be responsible for these actions. Just because of the misdeeds of a few students, does not mean that other students are just as dumb and naive, and definately does not mean our school provides a bad education.

Devil Patrick should figure out a way to tax the Vampires at Boston Latin...

Boston Latin School congratulations you have EPICALLY FAILED!!!

Love,
A Boston Latin Academy student

P.S. Please stop claiming you're Benjamin Franklin's Alma Mater, he never graduated from your vampire liar...I mean school

The story about the vampires are somewhat true. There are people in BLS that need help and that think they are vampires. This story treats us students as if we are stupid. We know they are not real, but they think they are. Someone needs to help them. This is not a lie.

Time to read Bram Stoker who penned Dracula--and Frankenstein's own Mary Shelly. Time to get at the deeper meaning.

Sioban

I'm not sure which is sadder, the fact that high school students at a supposedly elite high school (never true to begin with but that's a different topic) believe in vampires or that the administration would feel the need to "dispel" such rumors publically.

Embarassing.

2 all commentators, swing and a miss

I go to that school and 5 ninth graders believe that they are vampires. Other lies are that they say their mother is Stephanie Meyer (I don't know if I spelled that right.) who is the author of Twilight and that she wrote the story of their life which was a secret before. A girl did bite and there were three police cars this morning at before 7:00 AM through later but no checking of bags was done. BLS is still a prestigious school but some people do have brain problems. Many rumers are being told but 5 girls do in fact say they are vampires and atleast the biting one is being tested for mental issues.

As a current BLS student, I think I can speak for all of us when I say that no one actually believed that any of these girls were vampires - we believed that THEY believed they were vampires.
People have suggested that we are mentally retarded, and not only is that disrepectful to those who actually suffer from mental retardation, but it is insulting to the hundreds of Latin School kids who work hard everyday so that they can go to attend the prestigious college of their choice.
Please don't disrespect the institution when you know very little about it's history and even less about what actually occured at BLS.
On a lighter note, perhaps the reason everyone is so pale is not because we're vampires, but becuse we receive so much homework that we never see the sun.

They'd have gotten away with it if it weren't for those meddling kids.

For the record, Louis Farrakhan is not graduate from Boston Latin School but Officer Eddy Chrispin is a graduate of BLS.

The people at the Globe need to do more careful reporting. I am a sophomore at the Boston Latin School, and I would like to clear a few things up for everyone. No member of the student body, at any time, thought that we had actual blood thirsty vampires roaming our school. The rumor circulated was this: that one of several students who call themselves vampires attempted to bite another student. This story has since been proven untrue. Do not be misled by this poorly researched article. The students of Boston Latin School are not what the Globe makes them out to be. I personally find it amusing that the editors considered this newsworthy.

What you guys fail to understand that while we highly intelligent students of BLS do not believe in real vampires, there is a group of girls who do. They call themselves “vampires” and practice “vampire traditions”. They hate the movie Twilight and say that it is s poor refection of a true vampire story. These few students are causing major drama in the school and shame on BLS for not reporting the story straight. They are trying to cover up the school’s untarnished name.

Of the “vampires”, one even believes that she is a “werewolf”. Don’t ask me their reasoning…….. Yes it’s true that the “lead vampire” did bite an unsuspecting senior yesterday and got arrested. Yes they do bite each other and drain their blood to look pale. What this story didn’t tell you is that the reason that the police was outside today and checking everyone’s bags was because the so called “werewolf’s” boyfriend was upset that the “lead vampire” got arrested and said he would be bringing a gun to school today to shoot up everyone.

Before you write such crap, Globe editor, do you blinking well research! Try talking to the students that do not have anything to hide. I bet you would have spoken to the students at less prestigious schools in Boston.
Ben

I am from the school and can honestly say that no one believed that there are vampires, it was a joke blown up to be a ridiculous story that has now made one of the best schools in Boston look like a shame

This whole thing started with stupid little chinese girls running around biting eachother. We all thought it was funny. It's even more funny that it got onto the news. We're not mentally challenged, we have some of the highest test scores in the state. You're the retards for taking this seriously.

Good thing I went to BLA!

As Ms. Daly used to say: "If common sense were common, everybody would have it."

My daughter is friends with the girl in question at BLS and tells me that no one is pretending to be a vampire, no one bit anyone else, no one cuts, no one bites or gives hickeys to one another. Someone overheard an ongoing "inside joke" about a girl who likes a character from a novel who is a vampire, and it got blown out of proportion from there.

When I pressed further my daughter said, "Oh my God, Mom! Who would seriously believe in vampires?" confirming her suspicion that parents just don't get it.

How idiotic, there are no vampires at BLS.

But werewolves, that's a different story!

"Ahhhhh, the students of the night, what music they make."

Whatever. I went to school with Bigfoot so I'm not too impressed.

No vampires? Racism! What happened to cultural diversity? Why aren't the vampires represented at Boston Latin? Why isn't the ACLU involved??

Tom, I've been saying it for over a year - there's a Hellmouth under the school I've been saying it for years, Tom - there's a Hellmouth under the school that affects BLS 2012 especially.
My main point of this comment, however, is to clear up some things. I'm a junior at BLS and have been hearing since November rumors regarding some freshmen who thought they were vampires. I just brushed it off because I thought it was just some kids having fun. All the facts in the article were correct, but many of the comments are just spreading more rumors. I would appreciate it if people do not base the intelligence of every single student off of the actions of 4 children, by the way, because that's pretty immature, too. There was NO BAG SEARCH, either. The day went on normally. I have no idea how it came to a head yesterday (I'm not sure anyone does), but I fully agree that the specific students who indulge in this vampirism more than likely need psychiatric attention.

I as a boston latin school alumni believe that this is a very serious appauling situation... actually who cares if the chiick wants to be a vampire let her be. As long as she doesn't bite me in the neck and decides to suck my blood I'm ok with it... didn't our parents always tell us to follow our dreams? Not caring what other people say? Hmmm got you thinking huh? Hehe you have no lives making fun of this child, I believe Boston Latin School is really not at all what people make it seem. Yes maybe we are all acedemically smart but come on 'sumus primi'? Be real more like 19

For all the people slamming the boston latin community, you really need to stop .. Before you comment on us being "special needs" or "not very intelligent" please do everyone a favor and get your facts straight first. Everything has been completely blown out of proportion and it is completely unfair to classify the entire student body as believers in vampires

I can;t believe they just edited out the best quotes!

Like "Seriously!" said Melissa Duggan.

and "I'm not sure whether [the supposed vampires] were among the student body or whether they were inhabiting the old corners and crevices of the building," he said.

Actually #5, Cotton Mather spoke out against the use of spectral evidence during the court proceedings of the Salem Witch Trials.

As i student at boston latin, I want to confirm some of this crap. The people involved in this have serious pycological issues so give them a break. This is getting blown out of proportion. Also, go find some real news, I heard they finally captured Big Foot in Montana.

I currently attend BLS, and those kids are crazy and definitely not Twilight crazed, seeing as they say it's fake and stupid.
I even heard that two of the girls among the group had these rituals of biting each other on the neck.

There was a case in England 8 years ago of a man murdering an old widow because he believed in vampirism and immortality.

These kids need to get some councilling.

Yep, it's very funny. But if BLS kids believe in vampires, it helps explain some of the crazy beliefs we see in adults (the Bush administration comes to mind). I think we should have an elementary logic section in MCAS, and we need to seriously improve the way we teach science!

I go there presently and everyone talks non stop about it! The "vampires" wear black leather everyday and are late for school because they don't want to be in the broad daylight... It is extremely freaky!!! There is some crazy rumor that this guy thinks he's a werewolf too, but I think it's just bs. It's not hilarious it is completely wierd. It's also not lame at all.

it's funny

cuz this girl bit another girl yesterday

cuz

she's a twighlight freak

and now the rumors were she's a vampire

Hey Kids- Someone's not a vampire just because they suck.

I feel bad for the Goth kid. That person's social life is crippled until graduation.

adults should stop blaming twilight for this because theyve been around since september..they dont cut and drink blood they just scratch each other if they did something wrong and then suck the blood. but were not imaging this or making it up, ive seen it and so have other kids in the school..it has NOTHING to do with twlight.

There are many vampires at BLS, trust me I go there. This is total bunk.

my friend saw an attack, uhm the chick has issues. shes hissed at me before. the headmaster is just trying to cover it up.

As many other people have said, no one actually thought there were vampires at BLS. No one got arrested. There were no bag checks. But really, if someone told you that there were some girls who thought they were vampires, you'd consider that pretty juicy gossip, no? And that juicy gossip might just catch fire in a way that by the end of the day there were reports of lunchtime neck bitings, dramatic police arrests, and imminent school shootings. I was at the lunch where the cops showed up, as the article said (probably the one thing it got right) for something completely unrelated. No one was arrested. And NO ONE thought there were vampires.
What really disturbed me though was how little people seemed to care about these girls. I don't know if they actually thought they were vampires, but if they weren't messed up then, they definitely are now. I was also astounded at the role that teachers had in encouraging the hysteria. One student teacher actually told his students that he would gie them an A if they brought one of the "vampires" to class. Seriously? how immature and unprofessional do you get?

um..yea i go 2 dis school n it scared sure scared me 2 kno we had vampires..lol.its jus random goth kids obsessed with twilight.lol

This is seriously ruining the reputation of the school.
Facts:
There were kids who were doing weird blood involved rituals and calling themselves half-vampire in the 8th grade and freshmen year. NO ONE ACTUALLY BELIEVED THEM. The reason students were anxious was because there was a related gun threat from a kid who the 'vampires' said was 'half-werewolf.'

Please get your facts straight.

We need Dwight Schrute. He defeated a bat, and correctly discovered that Jim carried the "vampire germ."

I am deeply disappointed by this article. I had hoped that the Boston Globe would deliver accurate news. These few students who believe they are "vampires" are either bored or honestly need therapy. Shame on the Boston Globe for making this a laughing matter. This article in no way represents Boston Latin School. The students and faculty are genuinely dedicated, bright, and hard working. We work for the title of "Sumus Primi", and that's what we are: Number one. This is a school that has educated many people who have become great leaders in our society. Do not let this article or any rumors tarnish Boston Latin School's reputation.

For a prestigious school, some of those kids are really dumb.

I'm a current student at BLS and I have to say I am enraged by this article and the comments made on it. There was a small group of girls who believed they were vampires, and there were some very sensationalistic rumours about them attacking other people, but BLS students do not believe in vampires. I repeat, BLS students do not believe in vampires. I feel insulted by the generalization that BLS kids are stupid, mentally insane, etc because of this isolated incident. We continue to be a prestigious institution and I would hate to see our reputation go down the drain because of a small group of girls and some silly rumours.

Dose Boston Lahtin kids ah smaht.

Vampire |ˈvamˌpī(ə)r|
noun
1 a corpse supposed, in European folklore, to leave its grave at night to drink the blood of the living by biting their necks with long pointed canine teeth.
This sounds a lot like the DemoRATS at the State House. Didn't some of them graduate Boston Latin. See Tom Finneran.
They come out at night to suck off the taxpayer and give themselves pay raises after the good citizens of MA are tucked into bed.

guys i go there right now and they are just trying to cover it up. Yes it was a rumor that the girl actually attacked someone, but if you ask her she really will say she's a vampire. Obviously the headmaster's gonna say that they don't exist at all because she doesn't want to give our school a bad rep, but me and my friends have personally seen this girl and asked her and she hissed and said yes I am a vampire. Also my friend in her homeroom told me that she makes the teacher turn off the lights because she says it hurts her eyes

You've got to be kidding me! The Boston PD seriously wasted our precious tax dollars driving down to the school to deal with this?

One word: Fantasy. FANTASY. Learn it. There's a LOT of kids, teenagers, and yes, even adults, who pretend to be vampires for fun.

And there's much more than just vampires. Ever heard of the mystical, magic-filled middle-ages based fantasy subcultures (which I am involved in)? LARP? Dungeons and Dragons?

I'm a junior at BLS. This has all gotten way out of hand. No one actually believes that they're vampires. They're just stupid. Our school has 2000+ kids, there's bound to be 5 morons. This was funny when it was just a joke in the hallways, but now that it's being reported as a "news" story, it's just ridiculous. We've had a great reputation for 374 years. (We're older than Harvard) In two days, four "vampires" and a "werewolf" have managed to shatter that. There was no bullying. Four girls and a boy formed a group. They thought they were vampires. Obviously that is not at all true. The truly sad thing is that those freshmen really thought that they were vampires and were drinking their own blood. Now they all have hepatitis C. What probably started as a stupid joke, escalated, and now they have managed to ruin their lives. There is no fear of vampires. This is not news worthy.

So you are saying that my ticket to the 4th floor swimming pool has no value?

Just because 3 students from this school are a little "out there", does not give you the right to bad mouth Boston Latin School. There are almost 3000 other kids that are now embarrassed by all this. It is NOT A VAMPIRE SCHOOL. Oh and the "vampires" are offended by the book Twilight but nice try.

It's stupid 'cause I was accused of being a vampire. But the really stupid thing is I'm a deacon so now i'm a holy vampire or something like that. And this incident gets you all parinoide 'cause everybody has a cross or garlic; I always have my Bible so it was even stupider when I was reading it and i was still thought of as a vampire; that's RETARTED! The same thing happened to my friends too. The teachers as well. Also I agree with EXPECTING~09, they're smart but don't know how to use it.

First of all, all of this is wrong. Yes, there were many rumors spread about the school that were ridiculous and blown ou of proportion. However, this didn't all start because of some "goth" girl. There are actually 3 students the 9th grade who call themselves vampires, who bite each other's necks and put band-aids over the hickies/bites. They refuse to admit that twilight inspired this because according to them "twilight misrepresents vampires." This has been a known group of kids for almost a year now and this outburst doesn't make them any less real... But they still aren't vampires.

This is not news, does the Globe have nothing better to report ? Its a rumor gone out of hand and now makes BLS look bad. Utter garbage.

Note to Lola....Boston Latin School is a public school. So those tax dollars are at work here. Also English High is not across the street...English High merged with JP High and is in Jamaica Plan..

Deval Patrick should definatly give Boston Public schools more money for their Vampire education fund

this story is complete BULL noone at the school believed it . becaue i go there . wat happened there was a rumor gone completely insane and everyone just thought it was funny because the girl involved had been saying the weirdest crap abt her being a vampire and NOONE believed her . but its blown out of control

That really sucks :-)

To all those ignorant people who insulted the student body of Boston Latin School based on the sad events that stemmed from this group of "troubled" kids and to those alumni who dismissed and ridiculed our alma mater at the first sign of a predicament, shame on you.
BLS has been and will always be a great school because we persevere through anything.
If you would only stop and think, you'd realize that this particular group of BLS students needs help, not taunting or contempt.
Let's stop this negativity and focus on what we can learn from such tragedy to prevent more from happening.

Forever and always,
Sumus Primi.

I love twilight just as much as anyone, but honestly?? Even though they dress differently, goths have feelings too.

This was taken way out of proportion. I go to BLS and the truth about the matter is that the so called "vampires" are just a small group of weird 8th and 9th graders that in no way reflect on the entire school. I'm sick of everyone using these dumb rumors as an excuse to criticize BLS like it's some kind of freak show, but hey, we'll still crush every other school in terms of SAT and MCAS scores as well as college acceptances, so believe whatever you want to..

This is absolutely fake. It's all a cover up...

Ms. Kelley would NOT approve.

the vampires are still getting ten times higher SAT and MCAS scores. Stop feeding in to this stupidity

I *go* to Boston Latin School, and this article is completely exaggerated and at points downright false. First of all, the vampire thing got blown way out of proportion. Second of all, it got blown even more out of proportion by the police coming. Contrary to what this article says, the police didn't "calm the students" or even speak to us at all. Their presence only escalated the rumors, because no one would tell us why they were there. No one in BLS actually *believes* there are vampires there, it started as a joke and escalated because some girl is an attention whore. Deal with it, and move on. Not all of us are crazy.

The students should be expelled for bullying.

All this publicity and attention to this group of girls who consider themselves vampires really has made me think how it affects them. Is bringing attention to this, especially national attention, going to help these girls? Maybe telling people youre a vampire and then biting somone to prove it (if thats even actually happened) is a way to gain attention. But still, why are we taking this to the extreme? I really just hope that all this publicity and all the jokes that are being made about this situation, doesnt affect these girls and BLS anymore than it already has.
We're all laughing, but when is biting, police involvement, bag checks, and the mindset of being a vampire actually that funny? Blowing this out of proportion can only be causing more trouble (on the news....really? well at least the class of 2012 can be proud of making history by being in the news for suspected vampires at school. Way to go, now we're a national joke...)
Yeah, laugh it out if you need to but, honestly people, i think its time to rein this in before people start getting hurt by this mess.

There are actually students who go to the school (about 3 to 6) who believe they are vampires and apparently bite each other. Its a sad thing.. but the rumors about them attacking people are false, i believe.

Now that this story has actually spread to the national media, it's gotten way out of hands. I'm a student in BLS, and no one in our school believed that there were actual "vampires" amongst us. When the rumors came out, the general consensus was "this is idiotic", and we all attribute this vampire business to simple adolescent stupidity. Of course, this story was picked up because it's sensational, almost lurid. And now it has spread like wildfire.

Now we all look like idiots.

oh man. and to the person who said "are these kids getting enough homework?"

yes. we are.
also, this is a really bad representation of us now. these are a few psychos, so don't think that all of bls is so bad.
you adults are being hilarious by being all technical with this.
that's all my thoughts on this.

I am a student at Boston Latin School, and I find it unnecessary that a lot of people are saying that we have "dumbed down" and have "mental problems". We certainly have not "dumbed down" in any way because of this vampire stuff. Just because some of the freshman boys and girls think they are vampires and or werewolves doesn't mean that the entire school is stupid. These particular kids obviously have some issues that need to be addressed by someone. I don't know the whole story because there have been so many rumors going around, but I do know that they really do bite eachother and drink eachother's blood, and lately they have been scratching their necks so hard until they bled so they can drink they blood more easily. Clearly, this is ridiculous and should not be going on because there are potential health risks in this. Plus it is very disturbing. But anyone who is not involved at our school should not think of us as less intelligent people because of this incident.

I will admit, though, that these rumors have been hilarious. Us students at Boston Latin School don't really believe that there are real vampires at the school. Who wouldn't find it funny if there were boys and girls at the school who thought they were immortal creatures that couldnt go into the sunlight or be near ice cream because they think of it as their "kryptonite". You can think of the kids as a joke, but I hope that more people won't think of the school and the other students that attend Boston Latin School as a joke because of this though.

WE OBVIOUSLY DONT BELIEVE IN VAMPIRES
THE MEDIA IS MAKING US LOOK DUMB
THEY WERENT RUMORS, THEY WERE MAKING FUN OF THE KIDS
IM DISAPPOINTED IN THE GLOBE

This never would have happened if they hadn't let girls in the school......

After reading this article and about half the comments, I'm just a bit irritated. First of all, I would like to say to the people commenting: Stop making assumptions that BLS students are stupid. They do not have low requirements for admissions and I can assure that they are indeed some of the brightest students you'd meet.

These students are in fact still children and children have a wider imagination span than adults. Don't bash them; give them a break! The several students, however, who think they are indeed vampires, may have some problems, but that doesn't mean you generalize this idea upon the whole student population.

Besides, this article has got it all wrong. They made up their own interpretation of this incident. Sounds nothing like the actual rumors going around. Personally, I found this rumor very immature and from hearing it yesterday afternoon, I never thought it would cause such a huge commotion. I didn't even think much about the whole thing and this is just completely ridiculous.

I'm such a loser for writing an essay on this topic.

This is severely inaccurate Globe (hey, when did you become a 2 cent tabloid?). Maybe some of those journalism skills should be redirected towards getting the facts straight or gee, I don't know, actual news. This is simply a rumor that got out of control. It was a string of coincidences that happened to build this mess. Everyone who is deriving any sort of pleasure from this at this point should feel ashamed because this is no longer a small joke. Those people involved are very real, and most likely very hurt. Instead of antagonizing them by discussing events and occurrences that aren't at all understoon, these students should be getting some sort of aid. Boston Globe... I know you've lost a lot to the economic crisis but this article has seriously demoted you to Herald status.

no one saw this.
cant say that girl bit a senior.
note: this girls been saying that shes a vampire last year. psh, saying her sharp canine makes her a vampire. no one even cared about it, til now?

I actually enjoyed the spread of the vampire story at school, It gave us all laughs that we desperately needed to reduce our stress. Just imagine hearing what you think would be an important announcement over the intercom only for it to mention "vampires in our school". It's down right idiotic and hilarious XD. Can't wait for when we're all older and just laugh at the stupid things that occurred in school.

This article, like the rumor, is a travesty. It does not take into account the fact that this was serious - there was a gun threat, people! However, that doesn't mean kids actually believed that there were vampires. For crying out loud, this is BLS, and we actually are well educated. The freshman class may be a little, albeit, unorthodox, they are not complete imbeciles. A few enjoyed saying they were vampires - this wasn't news, they had been telling people since the beginning of the year. What was news was the presence of the cops, and their purpose was the rumor that spread around school.
However, Ms.Mooneyteta's control of the situation was good, despite lying to students about the purpose of the police officers.

This article is very condescending to all BLS students and BLS alumni. Boston Latin isn't a school filled with "vampires". A very small group in the school shouldn't be the basis for an article to define the whole student population, or the school
There's a reason that BLS is one of the top high schools in the entire nation. This amateur attempt at journalism is insulting even to the Globe and I'm surprised this is even being published online. This article has done a better job of mashing multiple topics into one and starting a complete rumor that's more elaborate than any at Boston Latin.

Who you gonna call?

Elite private schools? ISL? The only respectable ISL school that in any way compares to BLS is Roxbury Latin. Milton Academy? Nobles? Belmont HIll? BBN? These schools are all jokes.

So they're branching out from playing the role of "jock","Goth", "brainiac" ...OK ...
they all play that role at BLS-gotta make it more interesting...and piss off their parents too.
Acting a little bad, a little sexy, a little dangeous, a little dark...what more could a teen-ager ask for?

As a student at BLS, this article is humiliating to all of the student body. Yes, there was a group of girls who believed that they were vampires, or at least acted like it. They practiced blood rituals, and rumors spread like wild fire. A few out of the thousands of kids at BLS do NOT represent our entire school. They also have nothing to do with our academics or intelligence since the students do not actually believe in vampires. A person just cannot base an entire school's reputation on one unlikely event.

Okay, this whole thing is ridiculous. As a student currently at bls, I can tell you that there aren't 2000 students running around the building, obsessing over the Twilight movie, thinking that there are actually vampires are in our school. Honestly, everyone knows it's fake...it's just a joke. Which is why I think it's even more hilarious that this is posted on the front page of Boston.com and that there is a Fox25 truck outside.

This article makes it sound like we're all really unintelligent kids; we're not. So read into this as much as you want, but remember that this whole story is based on a slew of high school rumors and that our headmaster never had to explicitly tell us that vampires do not exist.

ok so first of all , i go 2 bls n im a freshman there and lemme jus say dis is straight BS!!! ppl arent afraid of vampires, we're afraid that these psycho ppl who claim 2 b vampires r gunna try 2 bite us. there ARE ppl who study "vampirelism" jus like ppl who do witch craft so 4 all u who think we're crazy 2 believe dis, google it. these girls have goin around sayin dat theyre vampires b4 ppl were addicted 2 twilight plus they themselves said that twilight is a dumb book and that they are nothing like those vampires. when some ppl come to yall school and bite sum1 in da neck and da police "coincidently" get involved, den u can talk.

The article does not claim that Farrakhan, Ben Franklin, et al., graduated from BLS, but rather, that they attended it. This is not incorrect.

"The prestigious Boston public school was founded in 1635, and its students have included Ben Franklin, Sam Adams, John Hancock, Louis Farrakhan, Sumner Redstone, and Nat Hentoff."

Seriously people need to back off of Ms. Mooney-Teta. Several students went home to their parents then felt the need to write emails to the news for a chance to get their 5 minutes of fame. She did what I consider to be the right then in informing parents and students. Wednesday the hallways were crazy with ridiculous rumors and no work was getting done within the classrooms because of the excitement. Today, after the announcement quelling the rumors class went on as normal.
For those challenging the integrity of BLS, please just look at the statistics. We recieve top MCAS scores year in and year out and continue to graduate and move on to the best colleges around.

Mooney Teta ignored the real issue and still owes the parents an answer: Did an assault occur in the school or not? If not - say so. But if so, why allow the child back in school today? Why on earth she would email the parents about "rumors of vampires" is beyond me. How pointless. And I must ask: since when does the school care whether kids worry about vampires? The school doesn't appear to care much about kids worrying about bullies - and bullies are real! We should all care about being assaulted and that's the only issue that should have been addressed in that email. Grade: D-

hahaha
this has gotten so completely out of hand.
and i like the comment about the 4th floor swimming pool:)

BOSTON LATIN ACADEMY ALL DAY AND EVERY DAY KIDDDD

soo how bout them red sox?

haha sooo tired of this is its all everyone talks about at school the past 2 dayss

first of all to all youu, dont hate appreciatee bls . Yeah, this vampire thing is really gayy but there were witnesses therefore..its truee . But they werent lik LEGIT vampires they just thot they were vampires cuz there kinda, not ok in the head, if u now hat i meann...

I'm a student at BLS, and I am honestly dismayed by this article. There are many facts here that are unclear, and anyone who doesn't attend BLS reading this article would get the wrong impression. It is also distressing to see that an article about RUMORS was written, when there are much more important things to be addressed....things that people actually CARE about.
We are high school students. Rumors happen. You can't tell me that you never encountered rumors when you were a teen. The only way to stop them is to ignore them. You, as adults should know that. After all...that is what you guys keep telling us when we hear rumors. Practice what you preach.
This article is just making a bigger deal out of this, blowing this rumor out of proportion. Not only has your article given many people the wrong view about BLS, but it also proves how many journalists these days can't seem to find things that are worth writing about.
I noticed how you only interviewed adults, not actual students who attend BLS. There were many rumors, and there were some that caused panic attacks. I don't feel like stating the rumors that caused panic attacks among students, or you writers will just write another ridiculous article. Maybe if I don't tell you, you'll actually go and investigate this...and HOPEFULLY get the facts right. We KNOW there are no vampires at BLS. I hope you "journalists" know that vampires don't exist. If you didn't, you'd basically be a kettle calling the pot black.
Mr Horan and Officer Chrispin don't know the whole story...they have only heard it through the 'telephone line'. If you interviewed teachers and students attending BLS...maybe this article wouldn't seem so ridiculous.
Next time, PLEASE get your facts straight. For now...boston.com seems to be only good for checking the weather.

The main page link title on this story aids and abets the bullies at BLS. The "goth girl" didn't cause the vampire rumors. The bullies did. The link title should be something closer to "Bullies cause vampire rumors..."

Good thing Boston Latin Academy was my first choice.

However this story is newsworthy at all is ridiculous. Is this all people have to talk about. I am a current Boston Latin Student who heard these "rumors". They came from somewhere. The girl went around claiming to be half-vampire. Somehow word got around and people started to make a joke out of it because it's ridiculous. Yeah signs went up, as jokes, and were soon taken down. It was a maximum of four "vampires". If people were claiming to be vampires at your school for a while, not just one day, you'd think they're crazy too. I know 9th graders and I don't want to signal them out, but that is a serious out cry for attention. Not the whole school was involved. Get your facts straight.

thank god i left in november.

yea.. rumor... right... (nervous laughter)

This entire story has been blown way out of proportion. It's ridiculous to think that BLS students actually believe that there are vampires among us. We don't.
It's also unfair to judge students who attend BLS by one group of attention-seeking teenagers. We are not only academically oriented people, but we also have enough wisdom not to believe everything we hear.
Rumors are spread at any school, on a frequent basis, so there's no need for this rumor to be made into national news.

The Globe reported a story without all the facts- how surprising!
Just another example of the Globe attacking what actually is good in the city. (police and fire departments with men and women who protect us everyday, hospitals that people come from all over the world to be treated at, and now one of the finest public schools in the country) It's sad so many people take what is printed here as gospel and are so quick to criticize. It must be nice to sit in your surburban homes and insult the city kids.

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Since when has the media become gossip girl?
If every rumor in every high school were posted as a breaking news story, nothing concrete would ever be written.
This has been blown completely out of proportion.
For those who say that the integrity of the school is in jeopardy, how can the actions of a couple students define an institution that has been around for more than 350 years and continually provides students with one of the best high school educations in the country.
Boston Latin School has always been Sumus Primi, and will remain so.

It's shameful when comments from BLS students are of higher quality than an article written by the Globe..

This is hilarious, I graduated too early, I miss all of the action.

okay I go to boston latin school now. The rumors were blown out of proportion, but that doesn't give any of you guys the right to call us stupid. Most of the kids thought it was idiotic and stupid when the rumors first came out. I know one of the girls who was believed to be the one who bit the people, but as we all know nothing of the sort happened. This article and the news brodcast is over exagerrating.

we're BLS for god's sake, one of the top high schools in america. this is just a silly incident so all you people who are calling us stupid, and we shouldn't be here should stop saying that and get on with their lives.

i thought all the bloodsuckers were at the Statehouse

Seems to me that people who were rejected from BLS 10-plus years ago are looking for a reason to trash the school that feeds a minimum of 20 students to Harvard yearly.
If you believe that any student actually believes in vampires, perhaps you're the idiot here. And now Boston.com has just become even more of a joke than it already was. Congrats!

I call people like this TOI.

"Twilight Obsessed Idiots".

Alright my understanding friends...read very carefully. They do not need to make the test to get into BLS harder, obviously everyone was just joking around...atleast I was. I am a new freshman at BLS...what is known as a Beezee. That is another story. This whole report is completely false, everybody was just joking around, really we wouldn't believe in vampires. Vampires are mythical things...things that defy logical thought. So would a school of incredibly gifted kids from all sorts of different backgrounds and more important things to worry about, leaders of their individual communities none the less, really believe in vampires? The answer is no, and yes, I may be part of this mess by writing about vampires acclaiming they were inhabiting our school, but I will say I was joking. Everyone I know was joking. Everyone in the school for that matter.

It's funny how the people who are criticizing BLS don't know how to spell. This story is not worth all of this attention. I am disappointed with the Boston Globe for making this into such a big deal and not getting the facts straight before publishing this article. This article is inaccurate.

Who the hell is Melissa Duggan?

a couple freshmen girls are absolute creeps, so what? people need to stop obsessing about it and the globe needs to find something better to write about. BLS is a great as well as really hard school. It gives us a BETTER education than any other snobby/prissy ISL school. So if you think your so great for going to nobles, bbn, etc. GET OVER YOURSELVES

I attend this school. This article is completely wrong. The aforemented 'vampires' are just a group of girls who like to bite and lick eachother in the neck. I've seen them around, and they've been doing that since way before twilight. They are lesbians and if thats what they get a kick out of, then so be it.

Its stupid that a small group of freshmen girls that no one ever paid/will pay attention to would demean our school's reputation.

the ''vampires'' were just kids dressing up and attacking kids in school. i know this is fact i have talked to alot of people who have seen it happen

Now you see how rumors get spread? This is a giant game of telephone. Someone was actually overheard asking for a vamp for hire!

Ummm did or did not the headmaster point out to these students that vampires do not exist? Do these kids know that? Seems education is a lot worse these days if they get in an uproar about magical fictitious creatures. Pathetic.

I hear laughing in the distance. Hmm, I think it's the high-school principal from Gloucester.

As an editor for the BLS Argo, our school newspaper, I had a policy not to accept any article for submission if it dealt with the topic of vampires or dragons. Sad that a formerly major newspaper can't have that much class.

Wow. From the comments from the BLS students it seems to be a great school that they truly love/like/respect. Pretty rare these days.

ps - thanks for all the clarification regarding this story. You should work for the Globe........uhhh, maybe not :)

Journalism is indeed dead when a story like this appears on the website of a "prestigious" newspaper. So is correct spelling, apparently. I have seen "werewolf" mispelled with a "ware" twice thus far on this forum.

ok...i go to bls and all of this is crap. there are a few people that think theyre vamps but nobody else thinks there are really vampires. we just think these students are insane!this is an embarisment to our school and these few people do not represent all of the couple thousand of us that go to school here!

This whole story was basically blown out of proportion. A few students believed they were vampires. One student may have bit another student in the neck. The Boston Police were called in Wednesday for a supposedly “unrelated matter” (Boston Globe), which fueled rumors. To conclude, 99.9% of the Boston Latin School student population does not believe in vampires. The students at Boston Latin School are some of the brightest in the world, the administration on the other hand could have handled this situation much better. In either case, Sumus Primi!

I think this is so absurd that the Boston Globe finds that this is so news worthy, no wonder they are in hot water..

As a student of folklore (and spouse of a BLS alum), I am more fascinated by the comments here than the Globe's (poorly-written) article.

Thus far I have read:
- there are three students
- there are four students
- there are five students
- there is some group of students of unknown number

... who either think or pretend they are vampires, werewolves, or other.

Said students are simultanously in the 7th, 8th, and 9th grades.

Said students have:
- bitten each other
- bitten another student (sometimes a senior)
- been arrested
- been susptended
- been diagnosed with hepatitis

Do please go on: this non-elite-school graduate is taking notes.

My only question is, did any parent, student, or faculty member really take this incident seriously?

what crazy "chicks"

I am a freshman at BLS. I feel that all of these speculations are completely ridiculous. Yes, there have been rumors going around about students believing that they are indeed "vampires" but obviously they are not. If only a minor group of the whole population of the school think they are vampires, how is this a serious issue? Also to the fact that this is being published in the Boston Globe makes me wonder if the Globe really has the time to write about something as meaningless as this. It is a tiny idiotic rumor that went out of control. This article is insinuating in a way that degrades the whole of Boston Latin School. This minor issue really shouldn't been seen as important enough to be written about.

at least Latin Academy has a collectively sane student body ..

I am a Boston Latin School student and I personally feel that this whole situation is extremely pathetic. Everyone is acting as if all of the students at Boston Latin School are lunatics! I feel that the students as a whole should not be blamed and discredited because of the actions of a small group of students. The student body works very hard to keep up with the rigorous workload and it is shameful that the community is not recognizing it. I have pride in my school and am disappointed at the portrayal of Boston Latin School students.

Please. There's a few attention-seeking misfits in every class to come through BLS.

By the way, when I was a sixie in '75, 4th floor pool tickets were just 50 cents.

I would just like to point out that most of the information in this article and these comments are false. Ben Franklin did not graduate from Latin School and I don't know who was commenting about Boston English, but they haven't been across the street from Latin School for years. And honestly, high school students believing in vampires? As a senior at Boston Latin School I can tell you that we do not believe in vampires, we believe in people who think they are vampires and bite each other on the neck and there are some kids who do that. The media is taking this story way out of proportion. Go to fox25.com and watch the video that explains we think its a joke. Boston Latin School is one of the best schools in the country, whether we have people who believe they are vampires or not. There are always kids in every school who like weird things so just get over it already. And finally, to the comment about Boston Latin Academy all day, I'm pretty sure you've had at least two lockdowns for gun threats, so don't be bashing Boston Latin School.

whoever thinks us bls kids actually believe in vampires is an idiot. this was all just a joke. no one takes it seriously. so all of you hop off our nuts cuz we're still the number one school. :PPP!

OK. I am a Boston Latin School student. The media should just mind their own business about all this. And to everyone commenting to this, no one is dressing up or anything. It's bad enough that everyone's talking about it (it's annoying) but even the news? Do you know how embarassing that is?
And it's not even about kids in my grade. It's about little kids at the school who don't even know better.
I agree that this article is completely off.
BUTT OUT OF OUR LIVES.
it's just a rumor, gosh.

This story is seriously degrading to the students currently attending BLS, especially my class, the freshmen. This story was written without all of the facts. So what if there is a tiny group of students that think they are vampires. It's not as if they're going around the whole school and biting everyone's necks. This article clearly was not Boston Globe standard and is demeaning BLS, which has very intelligent students. Hopefully none of you reading this, will actually take it seriously.

Wow My Cousin Goes 2 BSL And This Whole Thing Is Rediculous .. Well I Thought They Were Suppost To Be Kids With High Intellegence .. I Guess Not .. I Told My Cousin 2 Be Careful Not To Get Blood On Nething Bc They'll Smell It Frm The 4th Floor Pool:-D

BLS student's are well aware that "Vampires" are not running around the school. If there is any truth about the students pretending to be "Vampires" and biting other children this is a very serious issue and the headmaster did the right thing in responding to the rumors.

In response to number 179, BLS is an elite school and hosts the smartest children in the City and by the sounds of it your child failed to get in so now you want to bad mouth the school.

Maybe the reporter should have done some research before posting this article.

I am a freshman at BLS and I have witnessed many stupid things that our year has done. Sure they were stupid and left a black mark next to our name, but this just made it worse. No it is not a rumor, it is true. There are girls in our grade who think that they are vampires and drink each others blood. But this doesn't mean everyone at BLS should be considered crazy. The true story is that there are a few girls who think that they are vampires, carry umbrellas on sunny days to avoid the sun because it "burns". They also have students in the eighth grade who cut their wrists and suck their own blood and "worship" the "vampires". Mrs. Mooney-Teta is right to tell us not to talk about it. It got out of hand just because a girl got bitten at lunch and couldn't stop bleeding and rumor was spreading like wild fire. Honestly it makes people want to wear turtle necks or on the other hand pretend to have been "bitten" and make it a joke as to wear a band-aid on their necks. Either way, this situation went too far and shouldn't be mentioned here forth.

I am a senior at Latin and this has gone way too far. It was three 14 year old girls in a school of 2500 students, and the rumors simply got way too out of hand. If anything, this story has made so much news because people finally have a snippet of something they can use against BLS; even if it is something completely irrelevant to the school. Don't be jealous because we have been better than your school since 1635.
The only bloodsucker here is the media. It is trying to make a sensation out of nothing at the expense of making our school look like something it's not. It really shows how sad the media has become when they choose to focus on something as stupid as a few kids looking for attention, rather than, oh say I don’t know: budget cuts, the economy, the war on terror, etc. You just made yourselves look like idiots.

Globe: You deserve to fail? This is news? The only news in it is that the parents should be pulling their rugrats out of this "school". Nonsense.

Tax money is spent on this place? The vampires are this school sucking the money out of us.

Thank you, RWC, for recognizing that us students really do love this school. We will NOT allow these rumors and bad journalism to ruin our reputation.
Sumus Primi. It will stay that way.

My son attends high school 150 miles away from Boston Latin, but the buzz this week is that the location of their prom ( a local historic site) is haunted. There was even a television program about the haunted mansion on cable television last night. Of course, they can't wait for the prom now!
My point is that teenagers will take a story and blow it all out of proportion. The alignment of the "Twilight " movie release just makes it more so. My older child had a similar experience (camping trip scares) when the movie " Blair Witch Project "came out.
Not sure this deserves a story in the Globe, Weekly World News, maybe.

The Boston Globe is not reporting the facts accurately, SHOCKING!

Someone should alert their parent company, The New York Times

I hate how people are degrading Boston Latin School because of this stupid incident. People are saying that they thought that smart people attend BLS and it is very downgrading. We are one of the best public schools in the nation, and we still are despite the stupid rumors that some kids decided to spread. You all have to remember that we are just teenagers, and we are capable of making mistakes. The media is spreading the rumors just as badly as the students were. I think that everyone needs to focus their attention away from our flaws. Please just leave us alone

It's a shame the Argo- aka the BLS newspaper- has more class than the Boston Globe. When I jokingly asked the editor-in-chief about writing an article about it, she told me absolutely not, that these girls had enough problems. Oh ouch Globe, how does it feel to be learning journalistic ethics from a high school newspaper?

THIS ISN'T WHAT HAPPENED!
MOONEY-TETA ISN'T TELLING THE WHOLE TRUTH

The Globe has become a joke. The National Enquirer would not even carry this story

I thnik that all this is weird because i saw one of the vampires and she had a lot of badaids on and i have heard rumors that they are there because they cut themselves and they suck eachothers blood!!!!

I'm embarrassed for my school.

As evident from the numerous comments left by the current BLS students themselves, it's obvious they are aware that the vampire stories are just rumors. It's pretty sad on the part of the adults to think these kids actually believed vampires exist. Give the students some credit.

This issue of vampires has gone far enough. There are far more pressing matters at hand, such as the BPS budget, gas taxes and potential zombie outbreaks. I guess the Globe has no better stories to post so they have to talk about vampires...

And please, BLS is better than the entire BPS system combined; who cares if they're a bit whacked at times, because here at BLS...

"We're better than you, and we know it!"

I go to BLS and this is a joke. There were girls who cut eachother and such, but it doesn't mean were all stupid. There are 2,005 students at my school and 3 of them were "Vampires," Don't tell me you didn't have the weird kids at your school to. It's a joke, imagine being a teenager and being told there were vampires in your school. You would laugh and tell others about it to. Jeeshh... We're not all stupid, we don't all cut ourselves, we know there aren't really vampires. Just give it a rest. And it has nothing to do with Twilight, alot of people at my school hate those books.
It was not smart of Headmaster Mooney Teta to send that e-mail out..

I can't believe the Globe is actually publishing an article about such a ridiculous rumor (although it's kind of amazing how quickly and how far it's spread. I've even seen a blog by someone in another state talking about this). Although I think the headmaster should have just let the rumors die down (seriously. no one believes in vampires... right?), I think it's even more pathetic that the Globe is so desperate for things to publish that it's publishing high school gossip.

I am a senior at BLS and I just wanted to let all of you gossip mongers know that no one believed there were Vampires running rampant in the building. The "Vampires" were a couple of ninth graders who convinced themselves that they were part of the undead and bit one another's necks to draw blood. The police were called because a girl would not stop bleeding from a neck wound and it was possible that charges of assault would be filed. Personally, the fact that the police spokesman was so ignorant of why officers were sent for worries me far more than the fact that the school has a couple of mentally unbalanced freshman. The media is also making light of a very serious matter. These "Vampires" are seriously ill, and while these tabloids are publishing false stories about the entire BLS student body believing in Vampires, they are falling under not only school wide but region wide ridicule.

Also, as a side note, alumnus means graduate and you may want to recheck your facts, since Ben Franklin never graduated from BLS. He dropped out.

You writers must really have been having a terrible news day to put this on the front page...its pretty ridiculous because now people are saying stuff like latin's for vampires and im not going there and you are ruining the school.

1. It's amazing this is news. It's more indicative of the times and less indicative of The Boston Globe.

2. Thank God I never graduated from there. I transferred out after eighth grade. For years, I was disappointed in myself for not "hacking" the work, but this just goes to show the nonsense spewed by the administration there about how "great" this institution is, it's pretty much BS.

this is absolutely foolish, its funny how people try to trash BLS after something like this. People hate latin for the wrong reasons. people put us on a level with the new england prep schools in the area and that makes us look snobby. latin school is the farthest thing from snobby and this issue is a great example of that, people are proud to go to latin because it is a very challenging school and it takes a great amount of effort to succeed. its not because they think they are better than you. and all that prestige and first school in the country nonsense comes from the administrators that want to feel important. the students couldnt care less about that stuff. so all of the people that are talking trash about latin, realize that you are talking to kids who come from very modest backgrounds who are working their asses of to get a high quality education.

Wow.

I can honestly say I didn't think my day could get any better, and after reading this, I can honestly say I think this is hilarious.

See, I'm a freshman at BLS, and I can tell you we're all pretty certain there are no vampires among us. Half of the student population thinks it's a hilarious joke and try to waste time in their classes so they can avoid having to take notes, a test, and so on.

I’m at BLS. I’m friends with the girl who’s been psychologically attacked by the students at this school. I’ve known her for six years. She may not be your cookie-cutter high school girl, but she’s not about to start running around biting people and drinking their blood. I can tell you the name of her little sister, the names of her pets, and her exact opinion of Twilight and its moronic sparkling “vampires” (and shut up, I don’t care you’re a hormonal teenage girl who couldn’t tell good literature if it came up and slapped you with a dead fish). I can tell you she’s a greater fan of Anne Rice than Meyer, I can tell you exactly which classes she’s attending. Until you can tell me the same, I don’t see what right you have to judge her. Know what you’re talking about, or you’ll only come off as an absolute idiot.

No one got arrested. No one was bleeding (well, any more than usual. That time of the month and all that). No one was bitten. Trust me. I was in that lunch period, I was talking to the girl for half of it. I think I would have noticed if someone started screaming and bleeding in the middle of the dining hall. As it is, all I can remember is that my cookie tasted weirder than usual.

And the girl herself? Let’s put in the smallest words I can manage. SHE IS NOT HAPPY YOU ALL HAVE DECIDED TO BRAND HER AS CRAZY. Because, believe it or not, she is sane. I’d like to see how you all would deal with being cornered at your locker by a good twenty or so students asking you the same stupid question again and again. “R U A VAMPYYYREE LOL?????” (I apologize for any errors. Like most people with a functioning brain, I’m not completely fluent in any dialects of English but the kind they teach in schools) Is it suddenly a crime to dress differently from everyone else? To have your own opinions of the people around you? Are we going to start adding imagination to the list of no-nos?

I’m saying this right now, and I’m not going to say this again: she did not ask for you all to jump down her neck and start badgering her about vampires. You want someone to blame? Blame the ones who started this for no reason at all. Her “vampirism” has been a joke among us for a good two years now, and though she may take it to extremes, she didn’t ask for this. No one at BLS is taking this seriously (I think. In any case, I’m not seeing anyone staying up until two in the morning stocking up on garlic and crosses), and no one outside of BLS should be either.

Boston Latin School still one of the best schools in the nation. Notice how most of the people going “lyk3 0MG I S0 TTLY DID NOT NO THT LOLOLOLOZ” also manage to add something about how they or their children are not at BLS, and most of the people who are in BLS defend its reputation fiercely, and, I should add, seem more literate than the other half in general? This is because, believe it or not, we know the difference between “to”, “two”, “too”, and “2”. Know why? Because we attend BLS. All of you non-BLS kids/parents? I’m sorry, but you don’t get a voice until you’ve gone through our supersonic lesson plans, curriculum, and annoying floor plans (BLS, you know it’s true) and still come out with a 4.0 GPA. Sumus primi, now and forever. You know it too, and that’s the only reason all of you have jumped on this article like the carrion-eating hyenas you are.

One more thing of note. I like how almost everyone criticizing this manages to A) misspell something B) use chatspeak/textspeak/etc. C) manages to sneak in a complaint about not being able to attend BLS themselves D) manages to sound like a nine-year-old writing their first essay. Please, people. Learn how to write. People tend to object less when they’re reprimanded by someone who at least sounds like they know what they’re doing.

Great. I just wasted half an hour doing this when I should have been doing something productive. Thank you, collective readers, for your utter waste of time. I’m off to do something useful.

- someone who didn’t get her information fourthhand from the rumor mill

I expected more out of this newspaper.

Everyone has their own perspective and only sees what s/he wants to see. I think everyone should just cut this nonsense out. Seriously, none of the students at BLS think that there are vampires in the school and all of this media coverage is just ridiculous and embarrasing. It's just ruining the reputation of our school.

If you go to BLS, please stop spreading these rumors and learn to be mature. The more you spread these rumors, the more you are being a disgrace to our school.

If you don't go to BLS, you should get your facts straight before you talk about us. Stop being jealous that our school is doing so much better than all the rest of the public schools in Boston.

on_my_way_to_harvard has it right.

Why is HS silliness a "story"?

Is boston.com THAT desperate?

The only vampires at BLS are the teachers and administration, sucking the life out of its students so as to uphold their prestigious name. Don't send your kids there.

Proof that in an age of scientific wonders, there's still folks out there who tremble in fear of nonexistent supernatural boojums. On the other hand, I bet somebody out there is already drumming up a movie script "based on true events".

That's exactly why I left the school; those people have absolutely no common sense

HA HA All BLS kids think vampires are real, losers!

Piggybacking off the previous Argo editor's amazing comment... I only wish that our city's major newspaper could set a better example for our local publication. Isn't it a problem when a school newspaper should run op-eds against those they are supposed to emulate?

Does anyone care about BLS? No. And any student at BLS who claims their school is better than any other, remember this: You have students who think they are vampires.

Dont worry everyone, North Dakota is under water, yet we are concerned about vampires. Guess we definitely have our priorities straight

None of the students at BLS actually believed the rumors, all that happened was a want for something interesting to happen at school. So, when a girl and her friend were joking around pretending to be vampires at lunch, the rumors started, and every time it passed ears, it changed a bit because students all wanted to make school a bit more interesting. It happens everywhere. And no, no actual biting, wrist cutting, blood-drinking took place. Sheesh.
...Idiots.

Ok well people I looked at all of the comments and this is what I noticed some people talking about BLA because there morons that think that school is better even though are school is the harder one to get into and everyone knows its better. Also we don't believe in vampires calm down all that happened was some freshman where pretending to be vampires and it got out of control because they started biting people. People where not afraid of vampires they where afraid of the rumors of shootings going on and a lock down of the school. And did any of you know that there is an actual syndrome where people confuse blood with excitement and around this age they start to snap and eat animals and people

Hm. This is sad. No, not even sad. This is....really sad.
1. It's really sad that a rumor blown out of proportion would be taken so seriously by readers of this article (not including us at BLS, making you non-BLS, BLS-insulters the idiots).
2. It's really sad that the poor girl in my English class, who did nothing more than joke around and PRETEND to bite her friend (No blood involved) has to go through being despised by my school for ruining our school's reputation.
3. It's really.sad HOW inaccurate the article is, and even some of the posts made by the people at my school are WRONG, WRONG, WRONG.
But you know what's REALLY sad?
That the media wants to create sensationalsm so bad that they would stoop to twisting a childish rumor passed through a SCHOOL, with TEENAGERS who are known to have a habit of loving GOSSIP and changing RUMORS to make school life more INTERESTING when talking to their FRIENDS. It. Happens. Everywhere.

Martin Finucane and Maria Cramer:
good thing you are reporting on high school gossip.
did you hear about the party this weekend? you can report on what happens there too!!

First of all it is not just rumors, but that's not the point. The story is acting like people here at BLS are really afraid of there being vampires. No one thinks that there are actually vampires! The rumor is that these girls are a little obsessed and think that they're vampires. NO ONE I have talked to is the least bit concerned that there are ACTUALLY vampires. I do think that the headmaster is skewing the facts a little bit. Even the article says that the police DID come Wednesday because of the rumors...but the main point here is to get this person help if there really is a girl who thinks she's a vampire...

And also, BLS is a great school with really challenging courses. Just because there's one stupid incident about Twilight obsessions that gets way overblown doesn't mean that BLS is suddenly a sh*thole.

People should look at the discipline rates at BLS - they're evidence that BLS has most certainly not gone down the drain. In general, we have a pretty sane student population.

I'm a BLS Student, and none of us believed those rumors.
Vampires are lame.
Twilight is lame.
thank you very much.

Does anyone care about BLS?
I can assure you, Mark, that there is a significantly large amount of people who knows about BLS, who treats the name with respect. Anyone who has graduated from BLS can tell you themselves that the curriculum is intensive and way above average compared to other schools in the country. There is a reason why we have one of the biggest alumni association here; these alumni give back all they can, because they got to where they are today because of BLS.
And to reiterate, the student(s) who believes they are vampires are only one small percent of the student body, and we do not know ourselves that they truly think that way. Two or three students definitely do not make up a school. You are basing your answers on what this unprofessional newspaper is going by. Please think about what you are saying.

Food for thought:
Why is no one concerned that the students may have exchanged blood?
Why is no one concerned that they bleed themselves out to look pale?
Why is no one concerned about these students' physical health because they bled so much?
Why is no one concerned about these students' mental health?
Why is the majority of readers ridiculing teenagers who think they're vampires and/or werewolves instead of worrying about the causes and effects of this, crudely put, fiasco?

I would have gone to BLS had I not been accepted by a private school, and I think that I can safely assure you most of my friends who went to BLS are not insane, do not think that they are vampires, and do not need any type of mental evaluation. All is good, all is well, and worry about those few students instead of the police and bag-checks.

All kidding aside I'm just wondering when the news became the rumor hub. I mean seriously, this is just one of the culminating points that the news doesn't report the news they report things that they may hear and not know the full story on and say that it is all truth. I think the great Civil War hero General Sherman once said "I hate newspapermen. They come into camp and pick up their camp rumors and print them as facts. I regard them as spies, which, in truth, they are. If I killed them all there would be news from Hell before breakfast." It's as true now as it was then.

For all you "STUDENT POSTERS" You really should shut your mouths they are what got us here in the first place "LOOSE LIPS SINK SHIPS" Learn how to spell, and punctuate. If you students hadnt of run your mouths about these so called freshman then this whole thing would have never been "blown out of proportion" and when I went to HS when stupid freshman started crap like this well lets just say the higher guys up the totem pole didnt let it get to this point. Let's just say you are very non intelligent for even validating these "vampires" in the first place. Learn now rumors start because silly little children dont know when to shut their silly lil pie holes. Perhaps now you have all learned your lesson the hard way and will think twice when something lame and stupid as this happens again.

what a joke. first off i would like to point out that the majority of these facts are wrong. this article reflects badly on every person who attends boston latin, we are not a bunch of idiots who are overly obsessed with twilight, and the people who have stated things similar to that should probably read the books before associating all vampire talk with the books. what i am most offended by though is the accusation that this is the result of rumors that the "in" kids made do objectify kids who are a little different. students at boston latin are above that and there aren't people like that, everyone gets along for the most part. we do not bully people because they are different.

as for this article, who ever wrote this should be fired we are a high school! and if anyone hasnt noticed people our age are all weirdos, the whole thing has just become a joke with all of at school.

Two points:

This is a bizarre story. Meaningless, and bizarre, stories get covered every day. Barry Obama's family getting a dog is a perfect example. If we are simply going by relevance for major stories in the media or ones that actually impact our lives, ninety percent of news items would never make the front pages. Or, nowadays, the blogs.

Second, many, not all, of the Latin students posting here are obviously proud of their school. Great, school pride is a positive thing. That being said, many students contunie to post snide remarks, a "we are better than you" attitude.

Calm down, students. This article is not intended to make fun of anyone, we all know that you are probably intelligent students and scholars. Stuff happens. In about a week few will even think about this story now that media cycles are so quick to come and go.

I'm not bothering to read through all the comments, but I am a senior at BLS. All I have to say is this story makes us all sound really naive, thinking that there would actually be vampires at our school. The general consensus among the senior class is that there are a bunch of 8th and 9th graders that took Twilight way too seriously. Now it's gone to their heads, and there's a small group of girls and a few boys I've heard about that apparently believe that they are indeed vampires. I've also heard that a few boys have chosen the more masculine route and are calling themselves werewolfs. Either way, the whole situation is ridiculous, but I personally think it's pretty hilarious. There's really no need for anyone to be getting all up in arms about this. I'm less than 2 months away from getting out of Latin, so I honestly don't care about the school's reputation right now. All I know is this is a great note to be leaving the school on.

SO THIS IS NEWS TO THE BOSTON GLOBE, HUH?

So proud to be BLA grad, so very proud.

The rumor being spread around that made people afraid were of a gun man, not vampires.

#358, "Learn how to spell, and punctuate," really? I'm in the 8th grade and know how to spell and punctuate better than you. Honestly, this wasn't meant to leave our school. Apparently, a girl emailed a news station and it started spreading like wildfire. As for the Globe... Is this really news? Jr./High school rumors? I mean we have every right to be standing up for our selves, especially after being called "dumb" by various news stations during today's news, and we're not. Just because three out of our 2,500 students thought they were vampires and caused these rumors to spread, it doesn't make us ALL mentally ill. Maybe they need some councilling, but we definitely do not and we should not be discriminated like this in local and national news. Thank you.

vampires suck

Geez... does the recession apply to news too? Goodness. If Mooney-Teta hadn't sent those letters or made a public statement about all this, it probably would have stayed a joke until the class of 2012 graduated. Mooney-Teta is acting a like a girl on prom night -- she's blowing everything out of proportions. I mean, she doesn't have enough faith that her students are intelligent enough to know that vampires aren't real?

I'm surprised at the number of people who think this is a joke.

In every high school, there are always a few freaky kids who fashion themselves some kind of supernatural being and then take it too far. Whether they're memorizing spells from witch-themed TV shows and pretending to be witches or telling people they're vampires and taking the whole "I drink blood" thing literally, this does happen.

Either way, it seems these kids were convinced they were vampires and were going as far as to bite each other, which is an assault and therefore a problem the school needs to address.

The alleged several students at BLS who think they are vampires are no reason to discount the school or student body. The atrocious spelling and gross grammatic errors of the students and alumni posting on this board are grounds for poking fun, though. Try using a method of revision other than a generic spell check.

Don't you guys have something better to complain about like Miss Johnson? Please don't debase our reputation like this. This is ridiculous and shameful. Sumus primi. Let's keep it that way.

It's a shame that BLS, a school with such a prestigious reputation, is being trounced and discriminated so harshly by the media, who apparently don't have the story straight themselves. The fact that if you google search this topic and find three separate articles that say three different things shows just how mishandled, on all sides, these events and this story really are. Furthermore, the mislabeling of the Latin student body on the whole as "dumb," or "backwards," based upon the actions of a very limited number of ninth graders (three if I am not mistaken) whom obviously suffer from some kind of mental imparities, is increadibly unfair. Perhaps we should all get the facts straight before we start casting stones.

Now that the bullying of a student is out in the open, let's do something about studetns who have served their country and died in combat like former headmasters have done.
Let's at least give them the same dignity their prior classmates have had and engrave their names on the marble walls of the "Public Latin School" as former generations have done.
When will Latin School honor their deceased members of the 21st century wars they have fought for their country?
Forget vampires and do honr to those who have truly given "the last measure" of

It is sad that there are more important issues going on in the Boston Public School system and this reporter decided to write about Vampires. The proposed budget cuts will have a huge impact on the future of BPS education so maybe we should direct our focus on that story.

This is a story about school bullying, not vampires. Just look at the number of BLS students who have posted here saying "these girls bite each other, they cut each other," etc.

The story is not about BLS students thinking the undead walk their halls; the story is about the rumors, which many BLS students have continued to propagate here.

*That* is what the memo from the headmaster was trying to address: the rumors of biting and cutting, the bullying of the students who are in that group of friends -- it obviously hasn't worked.

Yes, BLS is unquestionably the best school in the city, its student body the best and brightest. It sends a higher percentage of its students to college than any other public school in the Commonwealth, most to the Ivy Leage. Those students are still teenagers, however; it is obvious to me that there is a bullying problem that needs to be addressed that goes far beyond selling tickets to the fourth floor swimming pool.

Bullying is not unique to BLS. Rather than disparage the student body of that particular school, this story should bring the larger issue of bullying (and the damage it can cause) to the fore.

There are bloodsuckers in City Hall, so why not the school systems?

ha!

alright if high schoolers are pretending to be friggin vampires i think they should see a shrink! and i love twilight like seriously why would there be vampires in a school wow! vampires are a made up thing. well except for like bats lol. but like seriously im in high school and i would never pretend to be a vampire! wow.. these people need help!

what really concerns me is the bloodborne pathogens, ironic that these kids are particpating in an activity they believe will prolongue their lives and aren't getting the information that there are serious risks, that their behaviors are potentially very harmful.

re. comment #106, i don't remember any backlash from my mom or other friends' parents for being straightedge. in fact, most of my straightedge friends' folks were pretty big drunks, which i feel caused them to run the other way. i don't really see the correlation between those kids and the "vampires" . or maybe i do, maybe it's some sort of counter-culture rebellion against societal norms. in any case, everyone deserves to feel safe, i hope school officials
and authorities can quickly take control of this situation.

I go to BLS and these people are trying to make us look like retards. This girl thought she was a vampire way before the movie came out anyway. Btw, i dont see any of u people getting into BLS so i guess the test to get in isnt too easy

All this is complete bs. There were never any actual vampires at BLS. This whole thing started months ago with a group of 2 ninth graders and 1 eighth grader who supposedly bite/cut each other and drink their . No one cared about the people who were doing this until one person in the group supposedly bit another in the lunch room. It is said that the person was arrested or suspended (there are different ors about this). After that, the s boyfriend threatened to come and shoot up the school. That is why there were so many police officers around the school. That is the whole reason why there is so much media attention about this... and why the headmaster is trying to hush verything up.

I was at BLS in 2000 when they were building a new wing, and the school stunk of decaying flesh. I KNEW there had to be deadbodies, and I didnt believe for a second the official statment that the school is built on an old marsh.
I also got attacked by a werewolf well swimming in the 4th floor pool.
My English teacher Ms. Walters was a ghost.
Unfortunately Ms. Kelly never believed me, too bad Teta wasnt there I could have a "Newsworthy" story for the Globe every week.

okay BLA kids,
honestly can shutup.
you've been trying so hard to be better than us .
including our MCAS scores, our library, and our extraordinary faculty, i guess vampires are another thing you guys don't have :).

Okay, so i guess someone in our school wrote that a werewolf is bringing a gun to school, and they sent that to a boston globe.
and why would they do that? to start more drama.
as everyone has said before, noone believes in vampires...
its one girl, who has no attention from anybody and wants attention
really badly.
& shes doing it in the worse way.
i mean honestly if this was like a "non-important" school, people would think would hink that this was awesome. theyre just running with this because its the best school in the country, I REPEAT BEST SCHOOL IN THE COUNTRY.
so shutup. everyone. you guys are pathetic.

This makes us look stupid...

I go to BLS. There are just a few girls in the ninth grade who pretend to be vampires for fun. Nothing actually happened.

Oh sorry that was me! I told edward we shouldnt be doing this! JK!
But wow i cant belive people would actually do this kind of thing.
Like really, i know people love twilight and vampires (I DO!!!) but please dont be going around pretending to be vampires and sucking peoples blood, that will only get u in jail... and its kinda weird!

We at BLS were perfectly content with keeping this a rumor, it's whoever decided that this needed to be in the news that should be deemed crazy. Fox News criticized the way we reacted to this rumor, but they're the ones that thought it needed to be broadcasted...way to keep the rumor going Fox. They have no right to say anything about us since they're doing the same exact thing.

I'm emailing this story to my son who is applying to grad school at Boston College. . .And the rest of the country thinks California is the land of kooks and nuts!
I read this story in the Redlands Daily Facts, a small (very small) newspaper in southern California--your vampire "news" is obviously getting around.To think that I thought Forks had the corner on vampirism. Nonetheless, your story made me smile, caused me to reminisce about my trip to your lovely city, and took my mind off our local story regarding the earthquake swarm going on up by the Salton Sea. I'll take vampires over earthquakes any day!

This nonsense must stop! if the young people actually believe themselves to be vampires, they need to have help, not be ridiuled and bullied. The only reason the story is so big is because no one will let it die down. Let's focus on the future of the young people by helping them to attain their goals.

I would never go to this school with all this discrimination I think my money will be spent elsewhere

By the way to all of you BLA alumni who posted on here saying how your school was so much better. Maybe you should look at the rankings of top 100 high schools in the nation because if I recall you didn't even make the list whereas BLS was ranked 27. Whammy!

This story read to as follows:
A law enforcement official with knowledge of the case said a group of girls at the school had been bullying at least one other student who likes to dress in the style known as "Goth."
The official said the girls began spreading a rumor that the student was a would-be vampire, who had cut someone's neck and sucked the person's blood.
Sounds to me like the Bullies, gang or "group of girls" are the source of the flib flab. What is wrong with dressing Goth? I don't but has there been issues with this? How about all those kids wearing letterman coats. Go pick on them.

the "vampires" dont dress goth you would never be able to pick them out of the student body they're just two girls with serious mental issues

To Rev J P- Boston Latin School is a public school. Last time I checked public schools were free.

Boston Latin School gave me a wonderful education and I am saddened that this is now what people ask me about. BLS sends its students to college fully prepared please remember that and not the subject of this article.

Hasn't anyone made the Transylvania connection? That fourth floor pool isn't filled with water—it’s brimming with the blood of young virgins so that the faculty, senior praefects, and precocious sixies who age less than gracefully can reacquire their youthful charms when they bathe. It's a wonder the vampires didn't come before, seeing as how they're completely responsible for the age-old pool rumor.

Thank god I fled the country—I bet the Volturi are going to swarm down on the poor, helpless town of Salem—’scuse me, I mean Boston—now that the secret's out. I'd rather face the entire People's Liberation Army than the sacred guard of the Undead.

(I’m afraid I’ve mixed up my mythology, too—the Volturi are part of Twilight, not the real vampire canon. Us Twilight readers will all suffer when judgement day comes and St. Peter knows we followed the wrong devil!)

Okay, though, flippant mockery over. I don’t know to what extent the girls in question obeyed their blood-sucking impulses—I mean, it does seem very unlikely that they actually bit someone, but I don’t know, since I wasn’t there—but all the comments, exaggerated or otherwise, indicate that they need counseling at the very least. Much as I respect the overburdened BLS guidance department, they aren’t equipped to handle anyone who hisses. And if there actually was a gun threat on facebook, it has to be investigated IMMEDIATELY, not passed over by laughing adults who think werewolf-imitating teenagers should be humored rather than helped.

It's true. The girls did bite each other. Disgusting.
They thought they were vampires. Dumb. So dumb that it made the news!!!
What is their problem?

Lol...that's kind of funny as well as psychologically disturbing. I'm a Twilight fan, but this is just one those types when the hype gets out of hand. It's like what happened with Harry Potter a bit...i literally had to get a permission slip from my mother and show it to the librarians to check them out at my middle and high school because of the content [I guess some kids wanted to fly off their houses with broomsticks to be like Harry]. It's just fantasy; I guess the line between reality and fantasy is blurred sometimes. I wonder if the inspiration for the goth vamp South park episode was inspired by this [or maybe it inspired the episode...it's a classic the chicken or the egg debate]?

I thought Battistone retired?

Nah man, I go to the Umana Barnes Middle School Academy,
There's this kid who people call him ''vampire'' because of the way he looks and acts.. like it's really weird. All the girls seem to find him interesting. and they try hard to make him talk to them, and he ignores them or walks away from them Lmao. I've only heard him talk once, and to me, he said, "hello" In a weird way, but cute. He left for a month, or so, without anyone noticing then he came back, much more serious and mysterious, Yeah, I wan't to find out who he is, the counselors in school say he is descended from an ancient rich heritige. well I don't know, but he is really weird in a way..
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This is silly. Everyone knows that vampires only lurk around at PUBLIC schools. This is one of the reasons people pay so much for their kids to go private. Plus, we need to be smart here and learn the lessons that Scooby Doo and co. has taught us. If there is a "vampire" around Boston Latin, it's likely just a disgruntled employee dressed up as a vampire. They are trying to scare everyone off to use the building or land for their own financial gain.
These are the only logical conclusions.

"Okay, so i guess someone in our school wrote that a werewolf is bringing a gun to school, and they sent that to a boston globe.
and why would they do that? to start more drama.
as everyone has said before, noone believes in vampires...
its one girl, who has no attention from anybody and wants attention
really badly......theyre just running with this because its the best school in the country, I REPEAT BEST SCHOOL IN THE COUNTRY.
so shutup. everyone. you guys are pathetic."

(Ahem) Are you a Boston Latin student? Because your spelling and punctuation are a bit sub-par. You might call it "pathetic". Back to the classroom jr.

This just proves what a waste private school is. These so called "elite" students biting each other like kindergardeners. pathetic. Then, they write on here in a huff telling us not to think they're retarded. Everyone knows that there are not really vampires, so all you BLS kids can stop talking down to all of us. No one was seriously mocking you, everyone was just having fun with a story they knew was somehow blown out of proportion, but none of these BLS kids can take a joke. This story isn't about test scores or attending Ivy league schools, but simply a ridiculous letter sent out by a fool of a principal. If you (BLS students) didn't make such a big deal about it and feel the need to boost your superiority complexes with boasting about your rankings and scores, then I bet people would just leave you alone. I have one bit of advice for you: GROW UP!

Wow...
I love how stupidity is now news worthy.
What SparkLife has to say on this is really hilarious!

Are you serious!? Are we going to resort to witch trials again?

This will be forgotten about and everybody will move onto something else to w orry about. Not that we don't have enough to worry about already.

The entire female student body must have suffered terribly.

For a few delightful moments, they must have believed that a real, live Edward Cullen was attending their school. Alas, their hopes were cruelly dashed by their unfeeling headmaster...

Lol.

This is a shame to our school. We are Boston Latin School, not a stupid school where some idiots go biting each other. I know people get these things from reading too much stuff like Harry Potter and Twilight but, Why do people get these stupid ideas?

are vampires really real cuz i want to become a vampire

But what they DID exsist? Have you thought of that?
Have you looked at all the evidence and history?
What if they didn't have any differences from humans... only that they have n heartbeat and they have incredibly sharp teeth.
Think about it...

This is nothing. Medford High School has werewolves.

Im sure the school is full of its secrets, maybe the rumors did come from twilight? maybe it is in their fantasy worlds..But above all who are we to say they do not exist honestly. They are in our history who are we to say they are not real..Its like saying humans are not.. I am sure they are just as alive as humans are. We all have our own beliefs, theirs is vampires. no need to make a big deal out of it. i say drop the situation and leave it alone before someone ends up getting hurt or worse..