Thursday, April 9, 2020

I am going to say this once, and briefly, because I am so done with this

If in the midst of this pandemic,
when people are dying due to a virus that hits us on racial disparities, access to health care, socio-economic status, and other inequities;
when people are trapped in homes, if they have homes, that may be unsafe or violent;
when we have literally millions of people losing their jobs;
when children are lacking access to food, to safety, to mental health supports;
when we are in the middle of the biggest disruption to education that we have had since the 1917 World War/flu epidemic combination;
when we have a catastrophic lack of leadership at the federal level that seems bent on getting us all killed;

if in the midst of this, your main concern and your energy around advocacy has been around the MCAS?

you heavily need to reconsider your--no, not the Commissioner, or DESE, or the state, all of whom have made their priorities quite clear--priorities.

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