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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Because they have 100,000 homeless students who depend on school to do their laundry and other essential services. It's a very different calculation than other cities. [/quote] At least make it optional for those who do not need those services. That exposes teachers to fewer people.[/quote] Even if they made it optional, almost all kids would go. It isn't just homeless kids, it's that most working and middle kids would be dangerously unsupervised at home because both parents work and there's no way they can afford a sitter at NYC rates. NYC schools stay open when other schools wouldn't. After 9-11, kids whose schools were close to the collapsed towers were back in school by the next monday. They actually had some high school kids go to classes at other schools (remember NYC has no bus system and the kids just take public transit and a student subway pass lets you take any train or bus), putting them on "shifts" meaning the kids from the affected schools would attend classes at a school at another area from lunchtime until the early evening and use their classrooms. This wasn't new for 9-11 either. My dad grew up in the NYC public schools and he remembers having to do shifts if there was something that shut down a school.[/quote]
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