With goals of “building trust” and “transparency” in the BPS Strategic Plan, the biggest hurdle facing years of misguided and rotating leadership is the inability of city leaders to understand each school is a community built by and for students, parents and educators.

On June 6, Mayor Michelle Wu and Superintendent Mary Skipper announced their proposal to move the John D. O’Bryant School of Mathematics and Science from Roxbury to the West Roxbury Educational Complex.

The latest School Committee meeting brought out the beginnings of what a BPS superintendent search process would look like.

As Boston begins yet another search for a BPS leader, what is most evident is the desperate need for parents, students and educators to be involved in the selection process and not as an afterthought.

In a textbook example of gaslighting, the Jan. 25 Department of Elementary and Secondary Education (DESE) board meeting showed a complete disconnect with and disregard for the impact of COVID policies on families and school communities across the state.

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…