Some Quincy students will go back to school part time in the fall

The school committee chose a hybrid model by a vote of 4 to 3 Thursday night.

– News covered by Quincy Quarry News with commentary added.

Hi ho, hi hi, it’s off to school for some to go …
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Some Quincy public school students will soon be heading back to school part time; however, when all of them might be returning to classrooms full time has yet to be merely but tentatively projected.

Last night the Quincy School voted to approve a hybrid mash up of alleged plan to at most but partially reopen local public schools and which Quincy Quarry News can only properly expect will make local parents long for the days of early release Tuesdays.

Mr. Twain was a shrewd observer of local politics
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Overall, the but partial plan to return students to the classroom is arguably akin to the product of a committee tasked to design a camel.

Even more disconcerting, the plan to variously return some students to classrooms was made in spite of the fact that Quincy was yellow-flagged earlier this week by the state as an at risk for COVID-19 infection community.

On bright side, at least Quincy wasn’t red-flagged
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The vote to approve the plan was by a narrow four to three margin, with Quincy Mayor Thomas P. Mayor Koch and thus also the automatic Chair of the School Committee voting along with his prime supplicants on the School Committee and as was only to be expected.

More telling, however, was that two of the three school committee members who have actual teaching experience as well as the these two have the added bonus of consequential school administration experience voted against the plan whereas the third but former teacher with a checkered history as a high school female sports coach voting in favor of the plan.

A Public Building Department headquarters’ handicapped access ramp
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Additionally, and as only to further be expected, Mayor Koch talked up going to whatever expense to bring local public schools’ air filtration equipment up to snuff as well as upgrade equipment wherever possible.

So what, however, for the fact that the City’s Public Buildings (Maintenance) Department cannot either put its long pending new headquarters in working condition or maintain its current office space.

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