"When you have a neighborhood that has no subsidized, no low-income, no elderly housing--nothing in fact but one type of ethnic group--it begs that question," says Reeves.
Reeves says that city action to help integrate the neighborhood might help to solve the problem.
Others prefer to see the debate as primarily an economic and class one, rather than a racial issue.
"I would say that I would start with elitism and classism," says CCA-endorsed candidate Renae Scott. "Then I would start with racism."
The most important step to take at this stage, Scott says, is to make sure similar incidents do not happen in the future.
And for Commonwealth Day, whose enrollment in its new Boston location has dwindled to eight students, the political chain of events touched off by their departure is irrelevant: The school has left the city, and Myette says he is unsure whether it will even consider trying to return.
"Whatever people in Cambridge have decided to do in a political sense, they have their own motives," says Myette.
"I just don't think we did anything to deserve the treatment we got. I think we were treated rudely."