On the Zoom call this morning with my sons' school, the principal informed the parents whose kids are currently fully remote that they could not, actually, and despite what the mayor and schools chancellor have promised, switch to in-person.
Basically, if a lot of the remote kids wanted to switch to in-person, it would add a "cohort" to the school and the kids currently doing in-person would likely move from a 2-3 day schedule to a 1-2 day schedule.
ALSO there's just not enough space for even that so if too many wanted to move, they would use a lottery system to decide who gets in-person learning that one whole (two on alternate weeks) day a week.
It's all I can do to stop myself from writing "WHAT IF WE JUST GOT OFF THIS RIDE AND OPENED SCHOOLS FULL-TIME FOR EVERYONE" in the chat. But I'm already the crazy parent who is like "isn't this whole system so dumb? Let me tell you why...." on playdates.
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I want to have all my schools-during-COVID writing in one place so figured I'd put it all here. So, THREAD.
It starts in March when I call for schools to close. Other countries had closed & it made no sense that my husband had stopped going to work yet my kids were still in school. I'd soon learn that making sense was no longer a thing that should be expected. nypost.com/2020/03/13/for…
I should also note, because we live in an absurd time where you're for or against, good or bad, "believe" in COVID or not believe, that in mid-Feb I told everyone to prepare for a lockdown and buy toilet paper. I took COVID very seriously.
I spend too much time reading about how other countries are handling children during COVID. This is Holland. They also don't wear masks.
The rules on distancing matter a lot because when we're lucky enough to have in-person school, it's on a part-time schedule because kids allegedly need to distance (and, additionally, all the kids in NY wear masks all the time including recess). No one else is doing this.
In Germany, grade school kids in some regions don't wear masks at all & in other areas kids wear them only in common spaces, not in classrooms. Again, my 4yo wears a mask all day, including recess, & still doesn't get to have full-time schooling. It's bullshit. This is bullshit.
You know the whole thing with “NYC is in trouble” and “NYC is doing great, look at me eating my sandwich in this park,” is that NYC is huge and it varies block by block. I just drove west on 3rd street from Ave B. It was...not good.
On Ave A there was a man with his pants down menacing people with a metal bar. I drove past him and pulled over to a police car closer to 1st Ave to tell them about it. As I was telling them, another guy came by to report a different guy acting violent.
But as I continued driving, the outdoor seating at Il Buco Alimentari & Vineria on Great Jones is packed and looks like it was dropped there from Italy. People drinking wine and enjoying life. Snap that picture, you don’t even know what’s happening 3 blocks away.
Hillary Clinton has spent the last 4 years saying Donald Trump is an illegitimate president. If you want to fight the decaying of our democracy, start there.
The gaslighting is just too intense right now. No one thinks Republicans are going to riot in the streets if Donald Trump loses. But we are frequently told to brace for the left being unable to accept results reached by the rules we’ve used for hundreds of years.
Do I think Trump happily accepts a Biden wins and throws no shade on it? No, I don’t. He’ll say it was rigged, he’ll say he really won, etc. ;
(Again, like Hillary!) But do I think he will cling to power and refuse to leave the White House? Get a grip.
Thread: NYC’s Health Dept is referring to a COVID spike in some parts of Brooklyn as the "Ocean Parkway cluster," and, well, I've got a problem with that. Ocean Parkway is a main thoroughfare in Brooklyn. It cuts across many neighborhoods. reuters.com/article/idUSKC…
But...of the 3 neighborhoods mentioned by this Health Dept official, Ocean Parkway only runs through one of them. Ocean Parkway is, for much of its length, quite Jewish. So this seems to me, and I'm happy to be corrected, a "the Jews are spreading COVID" wink.
We just would never do this kind of thing for other groups in NYC. I can't even present an example of what doing this to another ethnicity would look like because it's so offensive. Why does it continue to be ok to target Jews like this?
On April 3rd Gov. Cuomo questioned the need for masks because Mayor de Blasio had suggested they were useful and Cuomo enjoys putting the mayor in his place. How many lives did that game cost? nypost.com/2020/04/03/and…
In March, Gov. Cuomo’s MTA *prohibited* MTA employees from wearing masks. As of mid-August, 131 MTA employees have died.
In May, Gov. Cuomo said “How do we get justice for those families? Who can we prosecute for those deaths? Nobody. Mother Nature, God, where did this virus come from? People are going to die by this virus. That is the truth.” I guess he finally found someone to blame.