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May 26 • 7 tweets • 4 min read
Last beam for Doherty going up today! #WorcSchools
Doherty Memorial High School signs says “welcome guests DM
@Mass_SBA Jack McCarthy said that I am almost as much of a pain as @RepJohnMahoney (while noting that this means John is doing his job), so clearly I am doing something right. #BurncoatNext
Vice Chair Jermaine Johnson represented us on School Committee; Councilor @Etel_Haxhiaj spoke to the students directly.
And here’s @RepJohnMahoney signing the beam
(The video of it going up is too long for Twitter, but I shared it on Instagram)
I would also like to give a cheer to the others who immediately went for the weird places to sign the beam (my name is on the end)

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May 26
And from that last: “By the time the shooting starts, the police intervention is going to be reactive. People will already be dead.”

I am reminded of a conversation I had about cameras in schools, where it was called to my attention that cameras are reactive.
Cameras show you when something has ALREADY happened.
They don’t prevent anything.
I know there is this notion that “hardening” (and what a sickening adjective to use!) schools is a “deterrence” but there is no evidence of that.
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May 24
#Worcester City Council hears the #WorcSchools bottom line Image
This means it is time for my annual reminder of MGL Ch. 71, sec. 34:
"The vote of the legislative body of a city or town shall establish the total appropriate for the support of the public schools but may not limit the authority of the school committee to determine expenditures within the total appropriation."
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May 24
Going to create this thread for 9:30 start

Board of Ed agenda: doe.mass.edu/bese/docs/fy20…

livestream: livestream.com/accounts/22459…
line to get in:
and we have livestream.
They're in a ridiculously tiny room.
Chair Craven said that the town asked that the meeting be relocated.
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May 24
I should note two things about these:
1. I honestly find them useful. They're not the be-all, end-all, but they're a perspective.
2. They have a particular framing of school districts that I think is useful in considering the Boston report.
I've been a teacher, I'm a parent, I'm a member of a school committee.

I know that school districts are a product of their history, and that they swim in a ecosystem that is largely not of their own making.
The CDR reports have what I think is intended as a "no excuses" framing, which means that the analysis lives apart from any context.
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May 24
it's disorienting reading the headlines this morning...#MAEdu
I'm seeing words like "scathing" and "rips" and...it isn't.

Cute that the Globe editorial board was all ready with a piece, though.
Maybe it would help to note: while BPS getting an "update" a year later, the review itself is a regular thing for districts.

You can find them here: doe.mass.edu/accountability…

#MAEdu
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May 23
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Okay, so please note that I am not dismissing any of this impact on kids and teachers.

But we’re having a discussion about the state taking over the largest district in the state, and the first two complaints are:
1. “There are buses that never show up and you don’t count those as “late” and you didn’t change it even after we complained!”
2. “Of the 29 bathroom projects you said were done, 2 weren’t, really!”
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