BIG BROTHER

Boy's Internet research snags him in FBI web

A 12-year-old kid at Boys' Latin researches a paper on the Bay Bridge, and suddenly the FBI's Joint Terrorist Task Force shows up in the headmaster's office.
You could laugh if you didn't know the jangled nerves that set off such a reaction.
This fall, Dorsey Boyle, a middle-school teacher at Boys' Latin, the venerable Lake Avenue private school, assigned his classes a series of research papers. Seventh-grader John McLean picked a famous structure. McLean picked the Chesapeake Bay Bridge.
The Boys' Latin middle school headmaster, Rick Brocato, had an unexpected visitor: Jim Drotar of the FBI's Joint Terrorist Task Force. "We're very sensitive about bridges and tunnels," he said.