1/ I hope @bostonglobe or @bostonherald has a journalist willing to show the public the ruthless tactic the city is using to avoid the 4% threshold for remote learning:

Walsh had his BPHC appointee declare schools safe to reopen less than 12 hours after passing the 4% threshold.

2/ In short: MOA signed between BPS and BTU requires all learners to transition to remote if city passes 4% positivity threshold.

It empowers the BPHC — controlled by the mayor — to determine when schools can be reopened.

3/ the MOA is silent on what is obviously implied from any good faith reading: that the city needs to drop back under 4% for at least some time before BPHC is empowered to declare schools safe.

4/ because the MOA is silent on this point, Walsh and the city take a bad faith reading and decide BPHC is empowered to make this decision even before the city falls back below the 4% guardrail.

5/ But in a move that would make even Stephen Miller blush, they are declaring schools safe to reopen on the very day we first cross the 4% threshold.

I spent a few years working as a lawyer for cutthroat corporations. They would have never considered a move this extreme.

6/ The full MOA (maybe draft version? sorry) is linked here. A picture of the relevant section is attached:

https://www.bostonpublicschools.org/cms/lib/MA01906464/Centricity/Domain/162/Final-MOU-for-reopening-Schools-9.9.20.pdf