So to give you a sense of how it’s going. My son’s NYC public high school had 30% attendance today.
2/ a bit more context here. there are obviously lots of different issues in terms of health for students, for teachers, staff. but one point that gets less attn in the public conversation is that for most of the schools in nyc right now most of what they’re doing is doing …
3/ COVID test, organizing and administering isolations, sending kids home with COVID. Meanwhile large numbers of teachers and staff are out with COVID, many students are out with COVID and many families are keeping their kids home to avoid getting COVID. it’s important …
4/ for schools to remain open if possible but keeping them open under these circumstances is basically doing so on principle because politicians and COVID policy influencers have decided schools must never ever close no matter what and no matter show short a period of time.
5/ Again it’s not even a school or no school thing. It’s brief closure vs COVID perseverance theater in the classroom.
6/ I’ve heard that many classes are just showing movies since if 2/3rds of the kids are out and the teachers out it just causes more trouble to teach because most of them aren’t there. I said “I’ve heard” because well … both of my sons are home with COVID.
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