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Madison Park students talk about starting their year in chaos

The Dig provides comments from students.

A couple weeks ago, the Bay State Banner painted a rosier picture of where the school is today, although it didn't provide any comments from students.

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And the city council's solution to the problem is to abandon the school and build a new one with the name of one of their members of it.

Sickening!

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I think, and this might be my four hours of sleep talking, that the worse a teacher you are, the worse a school you get assigned.

This could be an urban legend but I've heard it more than once. It would be a nice way to sink Madison Park and its teachers.

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We have utterly failed the kids at this school, and likely other schools as well. We, being the tax payers of Boston. The management that we have put in place at the BPS central office, or wherever they may be, are obviously incompetent. Utterly incompetent. What message does it send to kids about how they are valued as part of society and citizens of our city when the adults in charge of providing them a place to learn and to get an education simply can't get it together? What must it be like to show up at school ready to learn, and have the adults whose responsibility it is to help you learn tell you that there aren't any classes? It makes me sick. If Mayor Walsh does not correct these problems - he is the only elected official with the actual power to make the necessary changes - I am going to do whatever I can to see that he is not re-elected.

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The two leaders of the school system, Johnson and Menino, were checked out for several years and we're seeing the trickle down effect now I think. I'm disappointed Walsh still hasn't put someone officially in charge yet, but I understand that is a long process given all the stake-holders and politics involved. McDonough seems to have largely managed things in an ok fashion but I don't believe any real institutional change can happen until there is a new person brought in with the full backing of the mayor.

I'm not blaming myself on this one - it's a strong mayor system we have and the mayor is only elected person with real power over the BPS. Walsh has 'only' had 11 months to make any changes. A huge institution like the BPS can't be reformed overnight.

Edit - I didn't mean to sound flip about this- the way these kids have been handled is terrible and shameful. I just lay the blame on people who are no longer involved with the issue.

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BPS had more schools, teachers, and students in the past than it does now and ran better with fewer administrators. Part of fixing the system to to reduce staffing of administrators back to something resembling reality. The organization is bloated and top heavy which makes it really hard to have culpability or decisions made in a timely fashion.

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" I just lay the blame on people who are no longer involved with the issue."
Like Judge Garrity maybe ?

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