Each of the four candidates running for School Committee in next month’s town election identified COVID-19 as a main reason for running, Both challengers, Ashleigh MacKinnon and Eric Kelley, criticized the decisions and actions of the existing board which includes two incumbents, Sean Costello and Kendra Stetson Campbell, up for reelection.
Both Costello and Stetson Campbell said they stood by the board’s decisions, most significant of which were the decisions to return to the school year in a hybrid model and eventually bringing students back fully in-person starting on this week.
“I think we have made the best decisions we could with the information we had at the time,” Stetson Cambpell said. “We are looking at feedback from parents, from students, from teachers, we’re looking at DESE guidelines, we’re looking at CDC guidelines, and a lot of times they don’t match or they change.”