After all, my 12-year-old still hadn’t set foot on her campus for weeks, having attended class just seven times this academic year. My 5-year-old was back in kindergarten (after an arbitrary, de Blasio–imposed break), but only half time, because her school didn’t have enough personnel to process kids in groups larger than eight or nine. That half time quickly turned to no time when two staffers in a 1,000-student school tested positive for COVID-19.
Remote learning—the borderline oxymoronic term to describe classroomless education attempted via computer screen by tens of millions of K-12 students nationwide—continues to be the norm for more than three out of four New York City public school students, including a disproportionate share who are economically (and now academically) disadvantaged.
Yet de Blasio may have been onto something when he puffed out his chest to Politico and said, “Just do it! We have proven you can keep school safe if you are willing to adopt enough rigorous measures.”
And with the election of a teachers union–friendly Democratic president, Gotham’s policy of prioritizing guild wish lists over student and parental concerns may indeed become the national norm.
God help us all.
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