Thread by @MOREcaucusUFT

In case you didn't think there was more news today: attached is our @UFT MOA with @NYCSchools for SY2021-22.

Initial reaction from a MORE member: $225 x 80k teachers = $18mil that could have paid a full $60k salary to 300 providers for a centralized remote option #RestoreRemote

@UFT Mulgrew:
-teachers & related service providers will get paid $225 Oct. 31 for setting up a digital classroom 9/9-10/1
-setup will be for 1st day of an emergency closure; staff won't have to upload content >24 hours b4
(so we'll be rushing to post stuff during quarantines)

@UFT Mulgrew: digital classrooms used
-synchronously (live) for remote parent-teacher conferences, snow days, class/school closures, & if teacher/provider is quarantining & able to work remotely
-asynchronous (not live) Election Day, partial class closures for middle/HS staff

Continuing from last tweet, according to our @UFT @NYCSchools MOA we won't be using digital classrooms for instructing absent students outside of quarantine, newsletters, ongoing family communication, and uploading/collecting lesson plans.

Many wonderings, but let's keep going:

@UFT @NYCSchools If a whole class/school closes, teachers/related service providers do live remote instruction; mostly applies to elementary schools w/ all students unvaccinated & where whole classses quarantine w/ an exposure. But for middle & high schools w/ mixed student vaccination statuses..

Remember, under new rules vaccinated people do NOT quarantine. Students depending on age & access may or may not be vaccinated & so quarantines are complicated/will be partial for classes. The @NYCschools staff vaccine mandate means staff will NOT need to quarantine if exposed 🤮

Vaccinated students will not quarantine if exposed; unvaccinated students will, meaning partial class closures; teachers/providers leave work for the quarantined while teaching rest in-person, THEN will have office hours for quarantining students & get paid per-session for em.

This is a big one: we can get observed for our evaluation under digital classrooms aka remote learning; need 24 hr notice.

Hey @UFT @NYCschools can you say any louder that you expect a lot of this school year to be remote for students/staff due to exposures and quarantines? 🤮

@UFT @NYCSchools Our @UFT @NYCschools MOA throws a measly $225 for working both remote and in-person platforms & little overtime for middle/HS quarantine office hours. This is a huge amount of work that could've gone to a centralized remote force, lessening class size AND keeping schools safer!

@NYCschools continues to place the burden on students/staff w/ a weak testing protocol, questionable ventilation, already overcrowded classrooms b4 the pandemic, limited social distancing "where possible," & making staff do much extra work for pennies.

& @UFT went along with it.

And we all worked Spring Break 2020 w/o that needed break & STILL have not gotten paid for it. This MOA is insulting to all the staff who have gone above & beyond to make real the lacking leadership and planning of @NYCSchools, and we are ashamed @UFT keeps going along with it.