Thread by @TracyNovick

Rather telling point in the decision to keep the Curley remote: lack of access to testing #MAEdu bostonglobe.com/2021/11/13/met…

“They said BPS contacted multiple COVID-19 testing vendors with the hope to begin testing students early this coming week but could not find a provider who could meet the capacity the school requires.”

For all that DESE has praised its own test and stay program, who gets tested in that is very limited, and BPS wants to test beyond that.

And again, I have been saying this for months, but the chasm between what this looks like at the school and district level and what the Commissioner deigns to notice is enormous.

There’s the infection aspect of that, for sure—do you know what it is like to have 50 kids test positive? What the contract tracing is for that? The secondary and tertiary impacts across even the school itself (never mind families)?—but also

The Department—and the Governor—never has had any interest in what worked and what didn’t in remote learning. The Commissioner’s dismissive response to BPS late last week was just the latest round of that.

And I have to say: that just isn’t doing your job. Thousands of kids got an education this way last year, and there has been no collection of best practices, no compiling of work, no organizing across districts, no discussion of what we learned. Zero.

The line from the Commissioner has been that kids can’t learn unless they are physically in a classroom.

And that’s not true.