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Do you envision NYC schools will re-open (under the hybrid model) by September this year or do you foresee a continued shut down and remote learning for all?
While I’m generally for school re-openings in smaller districts especially in the suburbs, I’m skeptical for NYC. We have too many students who travel across districts and even boroughs to attend their schools via train and bus. Even at the elementary level, the G&T program means one elementary school will have students from 10+ different neighborhoods attending.
If they aren't immuno-compromised and are generally healthy children and teens, they will be fine. The virus has shown that the amount of kids and teens severely effected are a very miniscule amount.
Now the teachers, that's different. If they are again, sick and vulnerable and elderly and sick, should just stay home or maybe do a ZOOM from home while the kids are in class, or something like that.
We need to open the darn country up already, not just the schools.
If they reopen, I think they will be fine. I've been watching kids play around with no masks and no social distancing for two months now. Never mind the kids, adults are chatting up strangers with no masks on, crowding into outdoor cafes where obviously you can't eat with a mask on, and touching all kinds of things that at least a hundred people touched before them (public bathrooms, water fountains, bus doors etc.) After seeing all that, I think either the virus is just about gone, or most of us are immune. Whichever it is, having kids in smaller classes with masks on can't be that dangerous in comparison.
Will schools reopen, though? Anyone's guess. A lot of people are still pretty freaked out. IMO they're forgetting to be freaked out about the other extreme - kids with no education and no child care, unemployed parents, all that. I know there's been no school since middle of March, but it's one thing to hang on in this situation for half a year and another thing to be told it will continue indefinitely. It's only going to be so long before landlords stop holding off on the evictions and start putting people out on the street.
If they aren't immuno-compromised and are generally healthy children and teens, they will be fine. The virus has shown that the amount of kids and teens severely effected are a very miniscule amount.
Now the teachers, that's different. If they are again, sick and vulnerable and elderly and sick, should just stay home or maybe do a ZOOM from home while the kids are in class, or something like that.
We need to open the darn country up already, not just the schools.
So send the children to their doom basically? What happens when they bring it back to their parents?
If teachers don't want to teach, they can quit! If parents want to rob their children of their education, that's their problem and something their children will have to live with. However, in NYC, there is a certain community that is bussing their children to school; jammed packed on big yellow buses with no mask mandates and they are getting their education. So go ahead parents of public school students, rob your children of their education; I mean, it's public school education anyways.
Public school education is what the child makes of it, I know many successful people that went through it, not everyone has rich parents.
If the kid wears a mask and follows the guidelines, it can be safe.
Most people who started home schooling in March said it just wasn’t the same. Kids who are used to being around their peers don’t take sitting in their own living room serious.
Keep in mind, most politicians kids are older and graduated college, they are not in the same situation.
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