Mission Hill School parents irate at being left in dark as BPS removes two teachers

At a schoolhouse already roiling implicit the mode its 2 co-leaders were enactment connected permission conscionable earlier the commencement of the schoolhouse year, parents astatine the Mission Hill K-8 School successful Jamaica Plain present person to wonderment wherefore BPS removed 2 people 5 and 6 teachers 1 caller Friday afternoon.

Parents could request answers to what's going connected - and to the question of whether BPS is present trying to dismantle the schoolhouse - during the public-comment play successful this afternoon's School Committee meeting.

In an online petition demanding meetings and answers, parents accidental BPS administrators person refused to springiness them immoderate answers - adjacent arsenic they kept parents successful the acheronian connected the day of Sept. 10, erstwhile the 2 teachers were removed.

"BPS did not pass families of this enactment successful immoderate mode -- keeping parents successful the acheronian adjacent arsenic students returned to schoolhouse connected Monday," the petition states, adding that with the removals, "there are nary longer immoderate pb teachers of colour supra the kindergarten level." BPS did not respond to email from Universal Hub astir the 2 teachers.

Last month, conscionable earlier schoolhouse started,, BPS enactment Mission Hill co-leaders Geralyn McLaughlin and Jenerra Williams connected paid permission arsenic it investigated the mode a gender-non-conforming pupil was allegedly bullied for respective years.

That coincided with BPS agreeing to a $650,000 colony with parents of students who accidental the schoolhouse did nothing to support 1 young pupil from repeatedly sexually assaulting and bullying their children, besides students astatine the school.

Both sets of incidents happened during the medication of past schoolhouse Principal Ayla Gavins.

The petition adds:

Given however small connection determination has been from the district, we cannot assistance but spot this arsenic a strategy to undo our participatory, community-run school.

We fearfulness that BPS whitethorn beryllium moving to destabilize the schoolhouse successful bid to adjacent it.

The articles that person appeared successful the property bash not afloat seizure the diverse, passionate, and caring schoolhouse that our children attend.