We went to the school district superintendent's meet and greet today. Not that she's a bad person, but people like that are really good at talking about whatever they want regardless of what question they're asked. I think she brushed off my suggestion about sharing more information about what secondary school is like, but I did get out of her that there was a survey of the high school students' opinions on safety and their experience.
After searching the MPS site and not finding anything, I emailed her assistant who sent me the 2023 survey. That one isn't all bad news, but it is concerning. I searched for the 2024 one and saw it mentioned in meeting minutes and on Reddit but couldn't get the actual survey results.
So I emailed the school committee member that talked about it on Reddit and have to hope she sends it to me. Failing that, I contact the superintendent again and the other school committee members. Failing that, it's a FOIA.
This is so much effort to get public information that should just be easy to search for.
Along those lines, after weeks of nothing, I got a response from Keolis, the company that the MBTA pays to run. I had asked them if they could let the community know when they're doing construction and on what dates because the trains going through the neighborhood have to honk when that's happening.
And their response was to the mayor's office forwarding my question because they don't reply to nobodies through their customer service. The response was literally "it will be a few more weeks", completely ignoring my request to provide specifics to the people affected by them.
I'm trying to act local, as they tell you to do when there's not much you can do about blatant banana republic corruption and national sabotage happening at the national level. But it is a grind.