Whaaaaat is this @BostonSchools Globe article?
The premise seems to be “BPS didn’t jump straight to panic mode after the state report…because there was an international pandemic”?!?
I mean, what is this: “In one sign of persisting inertia this fall, the school system missed key turnaround benchmarks under the March 2020 agreement with the state.”
The March 2020 agreement was written, as its date notes, pre-pandemic.
The March 2020 agreement was written, as its date notes, pre-pandemic.
And then the benchmark cited is school buses, and the concern is that BPS turned down the National Guard…which runs vans of 7 kids at a time.
We also have no evidence that “some” Board of Ed members are pushing for takeover; we have a single comment from a single member.
And let’s look at what he said, which the Globe does NOT cite in full: after he said he felt complicit, what did Member Matt Hills cite?
“not another day that goes by without another Boston Globe article that...amps my skepticism up a notch"
In other words, it is not district or state reporting; it is articles like this one, landing on the breakfast table in Newton, that fueled this remark.
In other words, it is not district or state reporting; it is articles like this one, landing on the breakfast table in Newton, that fueled this remark.
I think leaving that part of the story out is rather telling.
As always, I'm 50 miles west, this isn't my district, and I'm not claiming special insight.
But superintendents reworking their administrations is what new superintendents do (we hope!); the school committee blow-up had a LOT to do with race (which the Globe still kinda doesn't like to talk about); and we have had a FREAKING PANDEMIC.
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