this makes me so frustrated. literally sitting here with a 7 year child who is screaming 'I hate you' and sobbing while missing meetings trying to get them to write a sentence so they don't fall of a f-ing cliff of learning and all they have is reasons why they can't come in and zero solutions.
Ugh. These are not hard questions to answer on an individual school level. Obviously specials teachers and office staff should be covering for lunch or in the event of an emergency substitute. Windows should be open and doors should be closed. Children will be socially distanced because they will be in their seats.
I'm not a denier. Covid is real. But the risk for 15 healthy, masked people to share a room for 6 hours a couple of times a week is not a high one. They've been doing it in Europe and Asia just fine. The problem is bars, restaurants and partying--people talking and eating face to face, especially if they have been drinking and thus are sloppy. That doesn't describe the NYC back-to-school plan.
Covid is here to stay. We need to start reimagining our world and the first should be to get kids back into school buildings in places where the active infection rate is low.
I have a little sympathy for them and they are just whining. The rate of infections are low and they are increasing disparities with their stonewalling. They are not trying to come up with solutions but are offering barriers.
I am done with their whining. Where are the solutions they bring forward? Plus the phrase that everyone has to be safe, that is totally undoable. Every year teachers and kids die of the flu. We can't save every single life. Then we will never be able to leave our house again.
+1 Just being alive = risk. Whenever I get nervous about something that has statistically low risk, I always think of that mother and baby who died a few years ago when an airplane hit their house. She was literally just sitting in her house with her kid and died. We can't remove all risk from life. Right now the risk of covid in NYC is low. The kids should be in school with reasonable precautions taken until if/when the risk rises to a point where we should reevaluate (and the governor has already put parameters in place for this).
@Anonymous All the teachers seem to be asking for is reasonable precautions. The fact that they aren't being provided is not their fault. I have 2 elementary kids and a demanding job so know how hard it has been and will be, but feel that blame is being misplaced.
The irony that this group says they are committed to equity. Remote school will contribute enormously to inequity. It sucks for all kids but some have resources to make up for it.
Sigh. I think we need to come to terms with the fact that in-person re-opening just isn't happening.
I hope people can finally stop accusing teachers of being lazy and not wanting to work.
this makes me so frustrated. literally sitting here with a 7 year child who is screaming 'I hate you' and sobbing while missing meetings trying to get them to write a sentence so they don't fall of a f-ing cliff of learning and all they have is reasons why they can't come in and zero solutions.
Ugh. These are not hard questions to answer on an individual school level. Obviously specials teachers and office staff should be covering for lunch or in the event of an emergency substitute. Windows should be open and doors should be closed. Children will be socially distanced because they will be in their seats.
I'm not a denier. Covid is real. But the risk for 15 healthy, masked people to share a room for 6 hours a couple of times a week is not a high one. They've been doing it in Europe and Asia just fine. The problem is bars, restaurants and partying--people talking and eating face to face, especially if they have been drinking and thus are sloppy. That doesn't describe the NYC back-to-school plan.
Covid is here to stay. We need to start reimagining our world and the first should be to get kids back into school buildings in places where the active infection rate is low.
https://www.wral.com/europe-is-going-back-to-school-despite-recent-virus-surge/19256391/
I have a little sympathy for them and they are just whining. The rate of infections are low and they are increasing disparities with their stonewalling. They are not trying to come up with solutions but are offering barriers.
I am done with their whining. Where are the solutions they bring forward? Plus the phrase that everyone has to be safe, that is totally undoable. Every year teachers and kids die of the flu. We can't save every single life. Then we will never be able to leave our house again.
+1 Just being alive = risk. Whenever I get nervous about something that has statistically low risk, I always think of that mother and baby who died a few years ago when an airplane hit their house. She was literally just sitting in her house with her kid and died. We can't remove all risk from life. Right now the risk of covid in NYC is low. The kids should be in school with reasonable precautions taken until if/when the risk rises to a point where we should reevaluate (and the governor has already put parameters in place for this).
@Anonymous You said it much better than me! Thank you!
@Anonymous All the teachers seem to be asking for is reasonable precautions. The fact that they aren't being provided is not their fault. I have 2 elementary kids and a demanding job so know how hard it has been and will be, but feel that blame is being misplaced.
The irony that this group says they are committed to equity. Remote school will contribute enormously to inequity. It sucks for all kids but some have resources to make up for it.
I just can't with this anymore. I'm so angry. I have to stop reading these things and just accept that school isn't going to happen this year.
@ Anonymous . Same. It's driving me batty. I need to get on the stick and hire a tutor for my 5th grader, and forget about school.
TLDR
What's "TLDR"?
@Anonymous "Too Long Didn't Read"