BOSTON â This year s high school junior class will not need to take or pass MCAS tests in order to graduate, under a change approved Tuesday by the Board of Elementary and Secondary Education.
The move is one of a series of pandemic-influenced shifts the state has made within its standardized testing program since COVID-19 first shuttered school buildings last spring.
Students are typically required to pass 10th grade English and math MCAS exams in order demonstrate competency in the two subjects and graduate. Last year s 10th graders, the class of 2022, did not have an opportunity to take those tests last spring because education officials obtained a federal waiver and legislative approval to cancel the spring 2020 MCAS administration in the early days of remote learning.
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HUBBARD Sophomores in Hubbard High School’s Career and Community Exploration Class will host a 5K walk / run May 22 to benefit St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital.
Students in the class, which is taught by Jaclyn DelMonte and Jeremy Porter, must complete 25 volunteer hours by the end of the semester. In order to meet those requirements, the class decided to host a walk / run and support St. Jude’s. Little did the students know at the time of planning of the impact St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital has had on the family of Hubbard High School teacher Chris Moriarty.
She also died of cancer.
Watching this series is like living my childhood all over again!
And there are happy endings to what appear to be hopeless situations.
Are all entirely credible?!
That depends upon your own personal optimism!
What makes the series profound in my eyes is the fact that the central figure, Dr. “Max” is simultaneously both radically optimistic and, yes, because of his cancer, depressingly cynical.
Who wouldn’t be?!
The other, even more “troubled” character?!
A female doctor, Lauren Bloom, who, as she herself finally says in a therapy session: “I was in trouble…. And instead of asking for help… I just pushed everyone away! And I haven’t any friends left! And I was wondering: why I even bother recovering…. You know?! … Why not let myself sink deeper down the hole?!”