At an Oct. 27 Boston School Committee meeting, Boston Public Schools central office staff proudly displayed a graph of “BuildBPS Sessions for Community Feedback in 2021.” Glaringly missing from the list were the Blackstone, Sumner and Mendell elementary schools…

Last spring, Khymani James, a Black Boston Latin Academy senior who was elected by his peers to represent their interests on the Boston School Committee, resigned from his post in disgust. Citing “racist and adultist” behavior on the part of school committee members and other school leaders, James felt his voice—along with the voices of the students he was there to represent—was being silenced.

As a new school year began, BPS leadership continued a dangerous trend of being rhetoric-rich and implementation-poor…