{"id":102202,"date":"2020-10-31T20:39:21","date_gmt":"2020-10-31T17:39:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/doe-hides-attendance-numbers-amid-nyc-schools-reopening-critics\/"},"modified":"2020-10-31T20:39:21","modified_gmt":"2020-10-31T17:39:21","slug":"doe-hides-attendance-numbers-amid-nyc-schools-reopening-critics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/doe-hides-attendance-numbers-amid-nyc-schools-reopening-critics\/","title":{"rendered":"#DOE hides attendance numbers amid NYC schools reopening: critics"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#DOE hides attendance numbers amid NYC schools reopening: critics<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

\n The city Department of Education is hiding abysmal attendance in many schools on its website by omitting the numbers of students showing up, critics say.<\/p>\n

Mayor de Blasio admitted last week that only 283,000 students \u2014 about a quarter of the one\u00a0 million enrolled \u2014 have set foot in classes \u201cat least once\u201d since schools reopened. De Blasio had earlier claimed about 500,000 were coming in.<\/p>\n

But DOE spokesmen refused to say how many students have shown up more than once or on a regular basis, raising doubts about de Blasio\u2019s ability to deliver the classroom instruction he promised.<\/p>\n

\u201cConcealing the attendance data is a tacit admission that the administration has been unable to provide in-school instruction in a way that has garnered the confidence of families in NYC,\u201d said Eric Nadelstern, a deputy chancellor of teaching and learning under ex-Mayor Mike Bloomberg.<\/p>\n

The DOE, with a current budget of $34 billion in taxpayer funds, \u201chas a legal and moral obligation to provide data as basic as whether the kids are coming to school,\u201d he said.<\/span><\/p>\n

The DOE did not reveal any attendance data for the first month after schools reopened.<\/p>\n

Last week, under pressure from The Post and other media<\/a>, the DOE started posting daily attendance rates at each of 1,600 schools \u2014 but only percentages, not actual numbers.<\/p>\n

The DOE claimed citywide average daily attendance up to 88 percent. Its website also listed widely varying rates of students attending classes in-person and online at each of 1,606 schools.<\/p>\n

The\u00a0 DOE would not explain why it omitted the numbers.<\/p>\n

In addition, the website listed as many as 421 city schools \u2013a quarter of the system \u2014\u00a0 without any attendance data.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Some teachers say the tallies at their schools have hit rock-bottom.<\/p>\n

At Forest Hills HS, which has 3,800 students, only 42 or so students showed up on Wednesday \u2014\u00a0 roughly a third of those expected to attend, staffers said.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt feels like ghost building,\u201d social studies teacher Jordan Pincus told The Post.<\/p>\n

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Social Studies teacher Jordan Pincus at Forest Hills High School.<\/span>Helayne Seidman<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Only a few students sat in some classrooms \u2014 all with windows open for ventilation\u2013 while dozens of other classrooms stood empty. All the teens logged onto laptops to take classes led online by teachers at home or elsewhere in the building.<\/p>\n

\u201cNot a single student is getting instruction from their teacher live and in person,\u201d Pincus said. \u201cNobody.\u201d<\/p>\n

The students stay in the same rooms all day, with lunch brought to them. They eat during online classes.<\/p>\n

Pincus teaches social studies remotely four days a week. Once a week, he simply stands watch over kids taking classes online.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m at home when I\u2019m teaching. The only time I\u2019m in school is when I\u2019m not teaching,\u201d Pincus said.<\/p>\n

Pincus does not take attendance of students in the rooms. An aide comes around with a class roster to do so.<\/p>\n

On Friday,\u00a0 the DOE website listed 94 percent of Forest Hills students attending remotely, and 25.8 percent of kids scheduled to attend in-person showing up.<\/p>\n

A Brooklyn high-school teacher said he rounds up students taking various courses remotely, and puts them in one room.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s the one I\u2019m babysitting,\u201d the teacher said. \u201cThe kids call it \u2018study hall.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

Staffers call homes to ask why other kids did not show up. \u201cThere are so many absent students it gets scary,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

The DOE\u2019s lax grading policy will further mask the no-shows. While kids are encouraged to participate in remote or blended learning each day, \u201cattendance will not be a factor in student grades,\u201d says the 2020-21 policy unveiled last week.<\/p>\n

An NX, or \u201ccourse in progress,\u201d will replace a failing grade, the policy states.<\/p>\n

Mayor de Blasio agreed more students are no-shows, but said they are logging onto classes from elsewhere.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have kids who . . . participate more remotely on the days that they are supposed to be in school,\u201d he told WNYC radio host Brian Lehrer Friday.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have school seats that are sitting (empty) during the day,\u201d the mayor added. \u201cThat\u2019s creating a dysfunction we have to address because we can\u2019t have a seat going to waste. There\u2019s plenty of kids who would like to be in those seats.\u201d<\/p>\n

In a sudden about-face, the\u00a0 DOE announced it will give families only one more chance to switch from fully remote to blended learning classes, with sign-ups due Nov. 2-15. That cut-off outraged many parents who had planned to make that decision after January.\n <\/p><\/div>\n

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