‘Please come get me’: Braintree special ed. student has grueling first day back at school

It was the beginning to a day filled with frequent and frantic calls home for the eighth-grader, who, on the orders of a Norfolk County Superior Court judge, enrolled in the nearly 1,000-student middle school following a monthslong absence from any type of schooling — a scenario that had caused Samantha “irreparable harm,” Judge Catherine Ham ruled last week. “Mm-mm,” Samantha murmured, her face, pale from fear, staring blankly ahead, as John Mellencamp crooned “Ain’t That America” on the car radio. Following GPS directions to Braintree’s East Middle School, Alicja...