Bay Path Teachers Association

10/12/2026

What happened in the room after administration cut the video feed at last week’s School Committee meeting. For the few minutes we were able to hold conversation with our elected officials, the temperature started to come down, and for the first time since March, it seemed we were about to be heard.

Then the Superintendent and SC leadership walked in with the police.

It’s been one week, and it is still hard to accept our employers would rather call law enforcement than listen to their own parents, alumni, and educators.

If this upsets you, if you feel this treatment is wrong- come to next month’s meeting, Monday, November 2nd, 6:45, Bay Path. Show the SC that silencing us will not stop the fight for a fair contract that protects the learning and working conditions of our school.

Union strong 💪🏼

10/10/2026

A school committee meeting was halted as police were called to es**rt the public, including a group of teachers, out of the room. See link below ⬇️

📸 Bay Path RVTHS/YouTube

10/09/2026

A recap of what happened at Bay Path on Monday. Superintendent Brenner admits they did not post the agenda properly on the SC website. Rather than acknowledge that mistake and make a motion to restore the public comment, they called the police.

Our District leaders would rather use procedure to silence their constituents than listen to the families, employees, and alumni at Bay Path. This is a defining moment in the deteriorating treatment of our educators under Superintendent Brenner’s reign.

Enough is enough. Bargain our contracts, now.

10/07/2026

Public comment can legally be removed from the monthly meeting IF the agenda change is posted 48 business hours in advance. It was not. This was brought to the SC Chair’s attention during the meeting, confirmed by sitting SC members in real time- the agenda was not posted. We have previously shared the screenshots evidencing this as well.

Beyond the procedure- it’s just wrong. It’s ethically wrong to take away the public’s right to speak to their elected officials. The majority of the audience were parents, taxpayers, and alumni. The SC’s attempt to silence the teacher’s union has expanded to silencing our entire Bay Path community.

When people in power cut off all avenues of peaceful resolution, breaking decorum is not a crime. There is a responsibility to speak truth to power, whether you are a union president, town resident, parent, student- this is our school. We care, we speak.

Union president challenges committee before unanimous vote to enter executive session; BPTA says police removed attendees

10/06/2026

Last night, the BP School Committee broke the law- again.

In order to legally remove public comment from their monthly meeting, the School Committee chair has to alert the community to the change to the agenda 48 hours in advance- meaning by 7pm last Thursday, October 1st.

Here are the screenshots from last night. At 7:58, when community members were being told the agenda change had been posted, no October agenda on the SC webpage. After being challenged on this, at 8:47, an agenda appears.

Rather than acknowledge their mistake and making a motion to restore public comment for the community members to speak, they called the police.

The irony of the our school leadership breaking the law, and then calling the police on their own constituents who were assembled peacefully to speak, is astounding.

This is not the type of leadership the staff and students of Bay Path deserve. This is not the proper use of taxpayer funds. This was another attempt to silence the union, rather than work with us and negotiate a contract.

Thank you to the community members who came to speak, and thank you to the SC members who stayed to listen. We see you.

Union strong 💪🏼

10/06/2026

🚨 School Committee calls police on Bay Path teachers, parents, alumni, and taxpayers 🚨

The Bay Path School Committee removed public comment from tonight’s meeting. There were parents, taxpayers, guardians, and teachers prepared to use their protected time to speak. When challenged on their continued attempts to silence the union, the School Committee attempted to clear the room by voting to go into executive session. When the public attendees remained in the room in order to speak to their elected officials, the School Committee Chair and Superintendent called the Charlton Police, who removed us from room.

They called the police on their teachers. Their parents. Their former students. Their taxpayers.

Whenever a group in power uses force to silence, they are not in the right. All we want to do is sit at a table and bargain our contract.

We thank the many school committee members who stayed in the room and engaged in conversation. We appreciate those who are willing to treat us with respect.

Union strong 💪🏼

10/05/2026

Our initial response to the misinformation the District is now pushing on the school’s website:

Truth matters- or at least it should.

10/02/2026

Hey Bay Path families! Did you know the District is planning on unilaterally changing the entire daily schedule next year? Instead of 8 45-rotating blocks, the leadership is attempting to implement 6 60-minute static blocks, a move that not only has to be bargained with the teachers as a substantial change in working conditions (different classes, different duties, different curriculum, etc.), but also substantially reduces students’ time on learning in core testable subjects (math, English, science) by a third?

Do you have a student who is consistently tardy? They will miss the same class every morning.

Do you have a student athlete who is dismissed early for games frequently during their season? They will miss the same class every afternoon.

Do you have a student on medications that ebb and flow through the day? They will experience the same peaks and valleys in the same classes every day.

Do you understand the science of the teenage mind, that they are not truly awake, alert until at least 8:30, and that their energy lags after lunch? They will be in the same class as those same times every day, struggling to wake up and retain what they are trying to learn, simply because where the class falls in a daily schedule.

The union was able to stop this unilateral change from being implemented this year by not only pointing out it was a change in working conditions that needed to be bargained in the new contract (they didn’t care), but that it would be a violation of every single IEP our student body has, specifically the service delivery grid that outlines how much time on learning students with disabilities are guaranteed in their impacted subjects.

Now, Superintendent Brenner has ordered the team chairs to convince parents and guardians to sign off on this new schedule in next year’s IEPs, despite not having bargained it with the teachers, or having hired the staff or established the curriculum for the “intervention blocks” being offered as an substitute for this time on learning.

This is why bully leadership is not just a problem for the employees, but for the students of our school. Instead of working with the teachers as partners, the administration is ignoring the recommendations of their own scheduling committee, ignoring their obligations to negotiate with the teachers, and ignoring our legitimate concerns that their new non-rotating schedule is NOT in the best interest of student learning and outcomes.

Join us Monday. Tell the School Committee and Superintendent that Bay Path educators are not the enemy- they are the classroom experts fighting for the best working and learning conditions for our school.