Peter Kadzis basically livetweeted an angry meeting of Mayor Walsh, Superintendent Tommy Chang and BLS teachers. Teachers demanded Walsh and Chang refuse resignations from Headmaster Lynne Mooney Teta and Assistant Headmaster Malcolm Flynn, Walsh got mad, Chang told teachers not to pull that sort of thing in front of the media but they did anyway.
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Walsh has got to go
By Michael Kerpan
Thu, 06/23/2016 - 12:02pm
Either by being defeated in the next election -- or (maybe even better) forced out due to the (alleged) criminal conduct of his top staffers.
He gets mad REAL easy. And he makes bad decisions routinely. I have never been so sorry for a vote cast.
Good luck
By Boston_res
Thu, 06/23/2016 - 12:33pm
One word: Unions
He's got big union support.
If we are lucky...
By Michael Kerpan
Thu, 06/23/2016 - 12:39pm
... his "support" for unions might get him indicted.
I for one...
By Boston_res
Thu, 06/23/2016 - 12:48pm
...will welcome our first female mayor...and am damn thankful Linehan isn't the council president.
Ditto...
By Michael Kerpan
Thu, 06/23/2016 - 12:51pm
... on both counts.
Welcome anyone
By Arthur
Thu, 06/23/2016 - 10:37pm
I'll welcome anyone, male or female, black, white, or other, just as long as he/she is qualified and not a tax and spend, special interest liberal.
I dunno
By erik g
Thu, 06/23/2016 - 12:57pm
Maybe it's just an echo chamber in here and it's blinding me to reality in the rest of the city, but I don't think I know much of anyone who isn't pissed off at Marty for one reason or another. When it came down to Connolly/Walsh at the last election, I didn't have any strong feelings about either one. I broke the tie by voting against the guy who rang my doorbell right after my 4-month-old fell asleep. Now that there's a face to the name, I think he's going to have a harder time against a challenger.
I voted againsty Connolly...
By Michael Kerpan
Thu, 06/23/2016 - 1:03pm
... largely because of his ties to groups favoring (in essence) privatization of public schools. As it turned out, Walsh (after getting elected) made it clear that he was, in fact, also a big fan of charter school expansion. Nice little bait and switch Walsh pulled there.
Exactly!
By tmrozzie
Thu, 06/23/2016 - 1:08pm
Hit the nail on the head.
It's funny though
By anon
Thu, 06/23/2016 - 1:39pm
His stated positions on charters wasn't any different than Walsh's though so I think that fear was way overblown (in general, not picking on you.)
Anyways, Marty is not a world class mayor. I do think there are a lot of good, smart people working for him, in and out of BPS, but there's a veneer of hackery floating on top of their good works.
I couldn't understand that at the time.
By Sally
Thu, 06/23/2016 - 1:45pm
Heard so many people claim they were voting for Walsh just on that issue and then they were shocked, SHOCKED that it turned out he held the same views since he wove and dodged during the whole campaign. Connolly, with several young kids, had skin in the game and what seemed to me a pretty good understanding of the complex issues around charters, etc, whereas I never heard Walsh speak a convincing word about his school plans.
I think the fact that pro-privatization/charter groups...
By Michael Kerpan
Thu, 06/23/2016 - 1:51pm
... pumped a lot of money into his campaign hurt him. Had they not done so, Walsh bobbing and weaving might not have worked so well.
It helps
By bosguy22
Thu, 06/23/2016 - 1:53pm
When every union in the nation is sending you $10k checks weeks before the election.
really though?
By anon
Thu, 06/23/2016 - 2:03pm
...when Walsh got $500k in gray money from out of state education unions via Roslindale's own Jocelyn Hutt, that didn't give you any pause? Connolly's $ from GOP and charter folks was nickels and dimes compared to that.
https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2013/12/28/ameri...
Yes....
By Michael Kerpan
Thu, 06/23/2016 - 2:39pm
... that gave me pause. I wasn't particularly happy with either choice. In retrospect, perhaps I should have voted differently.
P.S. Your link indicates that the source of the money came out only _after_ Walsh had already been elected.
Not to get too far off topic...
By anon
Thu, 06/23/2016 - 2:47pm
The fact that outside interests saw fit to shovel $500k in anonymous funding to support Walsh was hugely concerning to me SPECIFICALLY because these backers felt it was necessary to do this in a back-channel way.
Connolly didn't try to hide that people like Jane Swift gave him $500 because that's all small time stuff. $500k is a lot of dark money in a mayoral election.
anyways, I think barring an indictment, Walsh gets re-elected in a walk. Wu and Pressley don't seem opposed enough to run against him and Tito doesn't have the support.
But Connolly got...
By Michael Kerpan
Thu, 06/23/2016 - 2:54pm
... something like $1.5 million from education privatizers -- which is hardly chump change.
He did?
By anon
Thu, 06/23/2016 - 3:11pm
"To date, super PACs and labor unions have poured $2 million into Boston’s mayoral race. The vast majority of that money — $1.65 million — has been spent on Walsh’s behalf. By contrast, outside groups have spent less than $190,000 promoting Connolly’s candidacy. The pro-Walsh tally rises daily."
http://commonwealthmagazine.org/politics/003-big-d...
All I can say ....
By Michael Kerpan
Thu, 06/23/2016 - 3:16pm
... is read the very end of the Globe article you linked. It has the figure I mentioned.
Fair point
By anon
Thu, 06/23/2016 - 3:30pm
With both candidates I guess the question is if that money was contributed in exchange for specific promises or if it was more aspirational fund-raising. Obviously the teacher union PACs can't be happy with all of Walsh's moves in spite of their heavy spending. I suspect Connolly wouldn't similarly have been the creature of the charter folks.
I guess we'll never know...
I agree, sally
By bibliotequetress
Thu, 06/23/2016 - 6:13pm
I started off working on Felix Arroyo's campaign. Crossed my fingers that at least we'd end up with someone to protect the schools against charter encroachment. Walsh never took a strong stand,was merely less vociferously pro-charter.
No choice
By Arthur
Thu, 06/23/2016 - 10:40pm
There was no viable choice in the last election. I voted for the guy who would do less of a bad job. I still think Connolly would have been worse, but I do wish there was somebody better than Walsh to vote for.
Anecdotal, but
By tmrozzie
Thu, 06/23/2016 - 1:09pm
I was at a community event a few weeks ago when His Honor arrived, and no one really gave much of a hoot. They had to repeatedly ask people to come over on the PA system so he could give a few words, when no one really wanted to.
But again, could be the echo chamber.
Walsh will win re-election
By Fitz
Thu, 06/23/2016 - 12:40pm
Walsh will win re-election easily and he knows it.
The Mayor failed to fix the Captions on City cablecasts/webcasts
By theszak
Thu, 06/23/2016 - 12:46pm
The Mayor failed to fix the Captions on City videos, City cable/webcasts for hard of hearing folks, for The Deaf Community, for ESL English as Second Language folks. A transparent background is needed for Captions on video from Boston City Hall. The black background on Captions for hard of hearing folks, for The Deaf Community, for ESL English as Second Language folks on Webcasts/Cablecasts of Public Meetings of Boston City Council... the black background obscures the video, for example nameplates of City Councilors and Officials Testifying.
Four Offices involved with City video haven't changed the black background to a transparent background for the Captions...
Boston City Council Programming Manager
http://www.cityofboston.gov/citycouncil/live.asp
Mike Lynch, Broadband & Cable
Boston Dept. of Innovation and Technology (DoIT)
617-635-2737
email
mike.lynch at boston.gov
http://www.cityofboston.gov/cable/
Boston Community Access TV
https://www.bnntv.org/about/board
WGBH Access Media Group
http://main.wgbh.org/wgbh/pages/mag/services/capti...
This is unfair
By alkali
Thu, 06/23/2016 - 12:50pm
This is deeply unfair. Walsh hasn't fixed anything, so of course he hasn't fixed closed captioning.
Also,
By Felicity
Thu, 06/23/2016 - 5:55pm
Cityofboston.gov is inaccessible to the Blind.
He gets mad REAL easy
By Waquiot
Thu, 06/23/2016 - 4:41pm
Sure Michael you remember the thin skin of the guy who he replaced.
I'm not with Walsh on this issue, but if you ever read Menino's book (which, even though it had the bias of being autobiographical, contains an admission that he kept Brook Pharmacy or whoever from the Square solely to protect his buddy at Sullivan's Pharmacy) you'll see that aside from the criminal probes, Walsh is right where Menino was at this point in his 20 year mayoralty, specifically on the issue of education.
All the same...
By Michael Kerpan
Thu, 06/23/2016 - 4:48pm
I mostly liked Menino and I mostly dislike Walsh. Irrational? Perhaps. But I've had more than enough of Walsh already.
Politics are, by their nature
By Waquiot
Thu, 06/23/2016 - 10:36pm
As irrational as most of us are. If you need an example, here's 2- the race for the White House this year and the quest to fill a vacant Supreme Court seat.
Menino got mad real easy and
By Arthur
Fri, 06/24/2016 - 9:17am
Menino got mad real easy and made bad (corrupt) decisions all the time.
Weird
By JohnAKeith
Thu, 06/23/2016 - 12:03pm
I thought the mayor's email this morning said the meeting would be "private" and then have a media event after??!!!
"10:00 a.m.
Mayor Walsh meets with staff at Boston Latin School. (CLOSED PRESS)
*A Media Availability will be held outside of the school following the meeting
78 Avenue Louis Pasteur, Boston"
Teachers have cell phones.
By bulgingbuick
Thu, 06/23/2016 - 12:05pm
Teachers text journalists who then Tweet.
So I guess Walsh and Chang plan to extend....
By Michael Kerpan
Thu, 06/23/2016 - 12:23pm
... the near-total gag order that applied to BLS administrators to the entire staff?
Kip Dynomite I'm merely pointing out
By bulgingbuick
Thu, 06/23/2016 - 1:39pm
technology as the conduit not the Constitution.
How many stood up in public to defend her
By EM Painter
Thu, 06/23/2016 - 12:13pm
The monster these teachers created will come for them next.
What the hell are you talking about?
By Michael Kerpan
Thu, 06/23/2016 - 12:20pm
How did "these teachers" create the monster that caused LMT (and Flynn) to resign?
Doesn't anybody read The Crucible any more?
By EM Painter
Thu, 06/23/2016 - 12:35pm
Conformist panic
Unexplained natural phenomena
Jealousy
Confess or death justice
Hysterical teenagers
It's all there!
I am quite familiar with The Crucible...
By Michael Kerpan
Thu, 06/23/2016 - 12:43pm
... what makes no sense is your slamming of BLS's teachers as being "creating" the current situation. The people creating and manipulating the situation have had the BLS teachers as targets from the start (not diverse enough, fire a bunch and then hire the right kind of teachers in their place).
What are you talking about?
By EM Painter
Thu, 06/23/2016 - 2:41pm
Are you crazy or something? What is wrong with you? Am I even here? What are these strange lights and sounds all around me??
It's more like The Red Scarf Girl, and
By Patricia Roberts
Thu, 06/23/2016 - 12:53pm
the Cultural Revolution in China generally. A few kids decide they want to be stars, and decide they don't like the teachers and headmasters, so the kids assert that their targets are insufficiently politically correct. One by one, the targets fall, and so do those who disagree, or who try to defend the targets. Maybe they'll set up a re-education camp for these administrators (and teachers). I think Nazi Germany did this, too, when they were taking over German society.I wonder if the mayor and Chang are so desperately afraid of being called racist that they're going along with this, or if this is part of their agenda.
Or, maybe
By anon
Thu, 06/23/2016 - 3:43pm
They are fed up with the culture and want to change it to be more fair for all.
I'm sure you have recently graduated and lived as a minority person, so you know what you are talking about. Yup.
Teachers say it's racism when they are evaluated
By EM Painter
Thu, 06/23/2016 - 8:00pm
Teachers are very willing to say it's racism if they are getting evaluated. They don't like when they are on the receiving end though!
As soon as these accusations were made, she was done.
And the follow up is just vultures trying to get somebody's sister-in-law a city job. It's just scratching for real estate as usual.
Thanks for the Chinese analogue
By EM Painter
Thu, 06/23/2016 - 4:07pm
The way you are condemned as soon as you are charged.
What do you mean we can't stage a student walk out
By bulgingbuick
Thu, 06/23/2016 - 1:42pm
during Summer.....someone get Tito on the phone.
Ironic
By anon
Thu, 06/23/2016 - 12:15pm
Pulling "that sort of thing in front of the media" is what started this whole overblown story off in the first place.
Re: >"...Walsh got mad... in front of the media."
By theszak
Thu, 06/23/2016 - 1:19pm
>"I often appreciate your input on Uhub, but your recent comment in the article "Meeting between mayor, BLS staff ends badly" was off-topic and not helpful to furthering the conversation."
It relates to...
>"...Walsh got mad, Chang told teachers not to pull that sort of thing in front of the media."
http://www.universalhub.com/2016/meeting-between-m...
That demanor kept Tom Menino
By bulgingbuick
Thu, 06/23/2016 - 1:43pm
as a one term Mayor 5 times.
Pretty Amazing following this on Twitter
By Iresd
Thu, 06/23/2016 - 12:20pm
Amazing
By hux
Thu, 06/23/2016 - 1:09pm
Just keeps going:
In the words of Gordon Ramsay
By Will LaTulippe
Thu, 06/23/2016 - 12:21pm
SHUT IT DOWN! What's the point? Close every school and fire every teacher on Friday. Take the summer to rebuild the whole thing. Hell, take a year if you have to. A year off from school would be better for these kids than the absolute garbage education they get now in this city.
Sometimes I wonder if you are nuts....
By Michael Kerpan
Thu, 06/23/2016 - 12:25pm
... other times I am sure.
How many decades of crap are you going to tolerate?
By Will LaTulippe
Thu, 06/23/2016 - 12:29pm
We're already up to four. Five? Six? How much longer is it going to keep sucking? Maybe hire back the good people, but for now, maybe a purge is best.
Get the best educators on the planet and pay them to run the schools. Harvard, Oxford, Johns Hopkins. We pay, what $1.3 billion now? Hand them the billion and see what they can come up with for getting kids educated well.
Harvard, Oxford, and Johns Hopkins...
By Bob Leponge
Thu, 06/23/2016 - 12:36pm
... are really good at educating people who gravitate towards academics. The curriculum is more or less designed to train future professors, which is kind of funny given how few college graduates go into academics as a career. This has bugger-all to do with running an urban school system.
Wait a sec...
By Scratchie
Thu, 06/23/2016 - 12:53pm
Are you implying that one of Tulip's proposals is impractical and unrealistic?
I'm going to have to sit down.
Then what's the best urban school system?
By Will LaTulippe
Thu, 06/23/2016 - 12:56pm
Hire them.
I think they're already employed somewhere
By erik g
Thu, 06/23/2016 - 12:58pm
n/t
Again, we pay a billion
By Will LaTulippe
Thu, 06/23/2016 - 1:02pm
People often seek employment elsewhere if offered more money for the same job. This is the best place to live on Earth in 2016. They will come.
HA!
By ChrisInEastie
Thu, 06/23/2016 - 2:11pm
Riiiiight.
Guess what
By anon
Thu, 06/23/2016 - 2:44pm
http://www.bostonpublicschools.org/site/Default.as...
Perhaps quit while you're behind
By adamg
Thu, 06/23/2016 - 2:47pm
Yes, BPS has problems. Lots of them. Some intractable. But it's a better system than it was 20 years ago, even 10 years ago and there's a lot of good stuff that happens in it - and, well, you basically don't know what you're talking about.
True but outside of the exam schools there are few
By bulgingbuick
Thu, 06/23/2016 - 3:04pm
if any other Boston schools that attract and keep families engaged. Brockton has as many challenges as Boston however they have outstanding schools. The have strong leadership and they push students to excel and push back against those that attempt to degrade education through politics. Walsh should take note.
And you're missing
By adamg
Thu, 06/23/2016 - 3:12pm
Boston Arts Academy (which, granted, is a kind of an exam school - it requires an audition) and even places such as, yes, Jeremiah Burke (no longer in danger of being taken over by the state) and that program at Charlestown High School for kids who need extra help to get enough credits to graduate (which, naturally, BPS wanted to shut but then got a $400,000 grant from Liberty Mutual and then the director won a $100,000 prize).
I'm not trying to be Pollyanna here - as I mentioned above, the system still has some major issues - but compared to other large urban school districts, BPS is doing pretty well.
You're just not thinking big
By erik g
Thu, 06/23/2016 - 3:22pm
You're just not thinking big enough. Decisive actions! For instance, we just found some asbestos up in the attic of my house. You might argue, "Well, you should probably get it removed," or "If you leave it alone, it'll probably be fine. Me, I'm a man of action. The minute I get home, I'm planning on burning that fucker to the ground.
Burning down the house!
By johnmcloughlin
Thu, 06/23/2016 - 5:46pm
You wild and crazy guy, the joke is on you, you will be left with a burnt house AND a pile of asbestos! Because it does not burn. You would feel bad because no house, only superfund site to live at.
Oh, you were showing how silly these comments full of hyperbole are? Never mind.
Cue Barney Frank
By Bob Leponge
Thu, 06/23/2016 - 7:06pm
Didja hear him waxing philosophical on the radio last Saturday?
Great interview. Impassioned defense of the progress that can be made by working incrementally within the system. Pisses off the revolutionaries but gets stuff done.
Yah it gets stuff done
By SwirlyGrrl
Thu, 06/23/2016 - 7:42pm
For the "right" people - the ones who already have power and control of the system.
Sadly, Barney is but a power bottom for the banking industry these days.
this is real life - not a reality show...
By sunyata2000
Thu, 06/23/2016 - 12:30pm
These kids get a real education at most BPS schools and I believe Adam has a child in a BPS school also and he would attest to this.
This isn't trivia night or some drinking game. Rebuilding the 'whole thing' is not a trivial matter that you are accustomed to - it takes real thought and decisions that have a real impact on the real world and actual children.
Your comments are usually recognized as trolling and I shouldn't feed you but seriously.... give it a break w/ your knee-jerk Trump-esque responses. Save your energy for Trivia night.
Wait...
By tmrozzie
Thu, 06/23/2016 - 12:45pm
What exactly are you mad about here? You want to fire all the teachers in one of the best public schools in the country? Because they expressed their displeasure with the questionable handling of this incident?
He wants to fire every public school teacher in Boston...
By Michael Kerpan
Thu, 06/23/2016 - 12:47pm
... not just at BLS.
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