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Bring Kids Back MA
@BringKidsBackMA
A collective voice for thousands of parents across Massachusetts advocating to get children back into the classroom. We are 100% parent-run, all volunteers
Jan 1, 2022 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
All of these parents expressing strong emotions as their children are yet again screwed by the politicized games amongst adults. When will it stop? @MassGovernor can you do more to help the kids of MA? More ⬇️
Dec 11, 2021 • 10 tweets • 7 min read
Tales from the ground: @WellesleyPS middle school communicated an increase in cases this week. The culprit? Those darn 6th-8th graders & their exposed noses!!! Kids with “masks below their noses” pose a significant enough “health and safety risk” to warrant this response. A 🧵 Of course, the only logical response to exposed noses is to threaten these students - a demographic that’s already facing a burgeoning mental health crisis - with suspension, right? @MassDPH @MassGovernor @MassEducation do you support suspensions as a mask wearing reprimand? (2/)
Dec 10, 2021 • 5 tweets • 3 min read
In the ongoing saga of "MA Edu News That Will Surprise No One" (especially parents): It's quite notable that one of the experts chosen for @MayorWu's COVID advisory committee - Dr. Julia Koehler - is curiously a very close "friend" of @massteacher and @AFTMass. 🧵 Mayor Wu must be aware that Dr. Koehler is a recipient of an @MTA President's Award, right? (2/)
Oct 29, 2021 • 6 tweets • 3 min read
Tales from the Ground: Middle schoolers in Sudbury MA received a survey this week called "Lunch Seating: Problem Solving For Winter". They were asked: Do you prefer to eat lunch on a floor mat, a chair (w/ lunch on lap), or a bucket that "can serve as a seat or small table"🧵(1/) Students had been eating on individual desks spread out in the gym, but that space is needed as colder days arrive. **Of course** we can't even consider allowing children to eat in the regular cafeteria with their masks off😯. So students "voices" & "help" are needed ⬇️ (2/)
Oct 29, 2021 • 5 tweets • 4 min read
The CDC has not even voted yet to authorize the vaccine for 5-11 but @MassDPH and @MASchoolsK12 are already asking school leaders to “urge parents” to get their children vaccinated. Pretty easy to see why we’re in a crisis of misinformation & distrust 🤯 doe.mass.edu/covid19/on-des… This is the exact reason why we’ve called for a transparent, active, and fact-based messaging campaign on the *actual* data on kids + covid from @MassDPH. Sign and share:

change.org/MA_DPH_CallFor…
Oct 27, 2021 • 11 tweets • 13 min read
We are partnering with #MaskLikeAKid and calling on all adults to take the challenge. Will you #MaskLikeAKid with us on November 1st?

Challenge your local school committees, Boards of Health, and our state leadership @MassEducation to do the same:
masklikeakid.com/the-pledge Calling MA leaders: @MassGovernor @MassLtGov will you join us and take the pledge to #MaskLikeAKid on Nov 1st?

masklikeakid.com
Oct 6, 2021 • 11 tweets • 4 min read
Today we sent a letter to the Baker administration, urging @MassGovernor to provide a clear answer: what is the end-game, the off-ramp, the objective for in-school mitigation measures on students who are in their third disrupted year of public education?
🧵 1/ As one million MA public school children walked back through the doors for in-person learning, they were met with a patchwork of inconsistent, overly restrictive, non-evidence based protocols that go far beyond the public health measures in any other venues in the state (2/)
May 26, 2021 • 12 tweets • 3 min read
Students may be back inside school buildings, but there's lots more work to do: view our testimony to the @MASchoolsK12 Board of Elementary of Secondary Education today to hear re: the concerning experience inside those school buildings:

Thread🧵(1/) All along, we had said our first goal was to get children back in buildings; then, we would focus on “picking up the pieces” of what’s going on inside of buildings. Sadly, there is quite a bit to “pick up”...

Here are examples from districts across the state:

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Mar 6, 2021 • 5 tweets • 4 min read
Parents are getting used to the shaming from elected leaders: Kudos to these Lexington parents for speaking up when *elected* School Comm member @kathleenlenihan publicly mocks them.

This is why we applaud 👏 @MASchoolsK12 disrupting local control

#openschools @schools_us More speaking up
Mar 6, 2021 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Bargain for labor all you want but @massteacher PLEASE for the love of all things STOP telling us that you’re doing this for the students. You must not have heard the very concerning calls from doctors to re-open schools for these STUDENTS who so badly need it. (1/n) In case you missed it @massteacher, some quotes from the folks who really are standing up for students ⬇️
Mar 5, 2021 • 4 tweets • 3 min read
At @MASchoolsK12 mtg: Commissioner @JeffreyCRiley discusses a provisionally accepted study by interdisciplinary group of doctors in a top infectious disease journal: "The effectiveness of 3- vs. 6-feet of distancing for controlling the spread of covid-19 among students and staff" The study compared 194 MA districts operating at 6 feet with 49 MA districts at 3-feet from Sept to January, with all other mitigation in place, concludes: "there was not a higher case rate of COVID-19 in either students OR staff based on the difference in spacing." #openschools