He did not do a single thing to fix failing NYC schools so on his way out the door Mayor de Blasio destroyed the rare functioning component of the NYC school system. You voted for this, New Yorkers, twice. nytimes.com/2021/10/08/nyr…
.@elizashapiro is openly anti-gifted education so "experts say" is her opinion. That second paragraph, though, YAH teaching kids with a wide range of abilities in one classroom is difficult. But whatever, it's only kids who lose out.
The next mayor can absolutely overturn all of this. This is @elizashapiro's way of saying he shouldn't.
I love all the parts of this article that are like *and then we'll just retrain all the teachers and spend millions of dollars on this and it will be totally fine* as if the rest of the school system isn't mostly a flaming disaster and all of their plans worthless.
It really is leftism in action. They could not make the bad schools better so they'll make the good schools worse and call it a win. (I should note these changes do not affect me. My kids are old enough to not have destruction of G&T make a difference.)
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I missed this live but am watching it now. facebook.com/events/s/scien… Right off the bat Randi Weingarten challenges that it was her union that kept schools closed. Mmm, it's the remix.
At the 10:34 mark, Michelle Walker, one of the activists at Open Schools USA says “A lot of people don’t know that practicing physicians are prohibited from speaking against the CDC guidance.” Is that right?! facebook.com/events/s/scien…
First speaker Irwin Redlener is so intensely obnoxious, conflating the topic- child masking- with like anti-MMR-vaxxers. This is what the pro-masking side has, hysteria.
I don't know even know where to start with Walensky. She is atrocious at her job. Walensky said schools should open in Feb 2021, then was cowered into reversing herself by WH (pressured by Randi). But oh there's more.
She said pregnant women should be vaccinated and then 3 days later *walked that back.* She continues to push masking kids despite all the available data (incl real world data from, oh, Europe) saying it's a largely unnecessary step.
A NYC friend has a 2nd grader who was "exposed" to someone with COVID in his classroom on 9/20. He will not be able to return to school until 10/1. If the exposure happened on 9/27, new rule say he won't have to quarantine at all. Best part is...his brother still going to school.
So much is so, so deeply stupid and anti-science and it kills me that people are just taking it. This kid is losing two weeks of school because of pure idiocy. It's an embarrassment. Everyone involved in this policy-making should be fired. Everyone quiet is pathetic.
Why does every change take weeks to implement? Why can't new quarantine rules start the day they're announced? How did you people vote for Bill de Blasio for two freaking terms with a straight face?
On one hand, I'm glad that a lot of hard truths are being acknowledged now. On the other hand, I rewrote this sentence like 4 times to take out all the f-words. nytimes.com/2021/09/08/mag…
A year ago I seethed in the @TheSpectator (spectatorworld.com/topic/children…) that poor kids would be left behind while the wealthy would hire tutors and be fine. Now we know it has happened:
This is the education commissioner for Tennessee. Sorry but no, it is someone's fault. It's the fault of every single person who kept schools closed. Period.