NYC delays school again, start date 9/29
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Anonymous
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They are losing a month of school all for planning....
New York City Schools Delay In-Person Instruction for Second Time Teachers complained classrooms were unsafe due to the coronavirus pandemic New York City schools will delay in-person instruction for a second time, Mayor Bill de Blasio said Thursday, after growing complaints from teachers over classrooms being understaffed and unsafe due to the coronavirus pandemic. The nation’s largest school district offered its 1 million students the option of fully remote learning or a hybrid of some in-person instruction and remote learning. In-person instruction was scheduled to begin on Monday. Mr. de Blasio said at a news conference that in-person instruction will instead begin in phases, with the youngest students returning to classrooms first. https://www.wsj.com/articles/new-york-city-schools-delay-in-person-instruction-for-second-time-11600353749 oy vey. |
Anonymous
| It should have been late September to begin with |
Anonymous
| I can only imagine the chaos this creates for people. They are still debating going back at all? |
Anonymous
| They are going to have the same problems we're having here. When it's time for the teachers to go back into the classrooms, they will express their concerns about safety and refuse. Can't have school without teachers. It is going to take a lot to convince public school teachers that they can do their jobs reasonably safely in person. Parents have an interest in getting their kids back into school; teachers have an interest in not getting COVID. The two are at odds with one another. It's an unsolvable problem without a lot of $$ and extra buildings into which kids and teachers could spread out. School districts can make plans and set opening dates and then postpone those opening dates over and over. The same thing is going to happen every time until COVID infection is a rare event. |
Anonymous
| As much as people criticize the DMV school districts for deciding early for an all-virtual start, it's better than being promised hybrid and having the start date pushed back, last minute, multiple times. |
Anonymous
Agreed! I would be apoplectic if I were a NYC parent. |
Anonymous
| give all teachers hazmat suits |
Anonymous
Home depot wanted to donate our teachers PPE, they said no. It's not about hazmat suits, some of them (not all) just want to be on permanent vacation. |
Anonymous
+100 WTF |
Anonymous
This. PPE is not hard to find these days. So goal post moves |
Anonymous
Arbitrary timeline. |
Anonymous
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They should not be opening at all. I suppose we should be thankful they're devoting a little more time to planning things to improve safety precautions. |
Anonymous
| They shouldn't have even considered opening. |
Anonymous
ITA. I don't know what they were thinking. They would've had to have shut down within a month or so. It's harder to go backward. |
Anonymous
Why would you turn it down? |