Count me in. I'm so over these people. I was sympathetic; I went to your meetings; I was supportive of going remote; now LEAVE ME ALONE! I work full time and my husband is traveling for work again so I'm also supervising home school alone while working full time and I have no patience for your increasingly ridiculous petty demands.
PPE is a ridiculous, petty demand after 2 teachers and students in different pods come up + for COVID within days of each other? When the DOE is providing teachers with N95s?
@anonymous The DOE supplies N95s -- why shouldn't Hunter / CUNY? Besides which, they're expensive! A 3-month supply of true N95s is several thousand dollars when bought retail.
As a hybrid parent, I wish the school would have closed for 14 days. Annoying and probably not needed since the PTA is spearheading saliva testing but the most precautious. I assume the teachers would have been ok with that decision.
Honestly, I am not sure what the future of the school holds. I think teachers will leave and families that can will leave. It will change the school community for good.
Those families clearly don’t realize what a mess the school is currently. I am a 7th grade parent and I wish I would have kept my child at his previous school.
@anonymous It's all relative, right? Someone may be in a worse predicament. And hopefully for your 7th grader, this will be over after this school year so the remainder of his or her time at Hunter will be better. Fingers crossed.
I'm a 7th grade parent and dc is doing hybrid. I think dc is getting an amazing education so far. We know dcs who are barely getting any live teaching (in-person or remote). We feel lucky that the teachers are working to keep everyone safe and that--remote or in-person--the classes and the teaching are great. If any of you want to leave, you should go asap so some other kids/families can take your spots.
You are lucky. The ES kids are getting very little instruction. I don't want to leave, but I think at this point they should have an actual math lesson or two and give some homework.
Count me in. I'm so over these people. I was sympathetic; I went to your meetings; I was supportive of going remote; now LEAVE ME ALONE! I work full time and my husband is traveling for work again so I'm also supervising home school alone while working full time and I have no patience for your increasingly ridiculous petty demands.
PPE is a ridiculous, petty demand after 2 teachers and students in different pods come up + for COVID within days of each other? When the DOE is providing teachers with N95s?
@Anonymous Come on, just buy your own masks like everyone else.
@anonymous The DOE supplies N95s -- why shouldn't Hunter / CUNY? Besides which, they're expensive! A 3-month supply of true N95s is several thousand dollars when bought retail.
For all those following this drama: https://gothamist.com/news/nyc-schools-updates-october-19-2020
Edit to say SOME parents. Many are sympathetic.
As a hybrid parent, I wish the school would have closed for 14 days. Annoying and probably not needed since the PTA is spearheading saliva testing but the most precautious. I assume the teachers would have been ok with that decision.
I think the teachers will stop at nothing short of getting the damn school locked up for good.
@anonymous It will take cooperation from the administration to avoid that.
Honestly, I am not sure what the future of the school holds. I think teachers will leave and families that can will leave. It will change the school community for good.
Families that can Have already left.
There are so many more considering it. At least in the ES.
this is such a crazy generalization. many who can leave have also stayed. this is a blip in a 13 year experience.
There will be many MANY other families waiting in the wings to take you kids' places. I'm not trying to be snarky, but its true.
Those families clearly don’t realize what a mess the school is currently. I am a 7th grade parent and I wish I would have kept my child at his previous school.
@anonymous It's all relative, right? Someone may be in a worse predicament. And hopefully for your 7th grader, this will be over after this school year so the remainder of his or her time at Hunter will be better. Fingers crossed.
@anonymous DOE has right of return for up to a year if the school has space. If there's an open seat, you can switch dc back.
I'm a 7th grade parent and dc is doing hybrid. I think dc is getting an amazing education so far. We know dcs who are barely getting any live teaching (in-person or remote). We feel lucky that the teachers are working to keep everyone safe and that--remote or in-person--the classes and the teaching are great. If any of you want to leave, you should go asap so some other kids/families can take your spots.
You are lucky. The ES kids are getting very little instruction. I don't want to leave, but I think at this point they should have an actual math lesson or two and give some homework.
Such different ages though! ms and hs can handle hours on Zoom.
Just because they can, doesn't mean they should. But I agree, ES is harder over Zoom.
for certain values of "handle." its exhausting and hard to focus on Zoom for hours at any age.