{"id":127891,"date":"2020-12-07T01:37:36","date_gmt":"2020-12-06T22:37:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/nyc-parents-protest-all-virtual-classes-for-older-kids\/"},"modified":"2020-12-07T01:37:36","modified_gmt":"2020-12-06T22:37:36","slug":"nyc-parents-protest-all-virtual-classes-for-older-kids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/nyc-parents-protest-all-virtual-classes-for-older-kids\/","title":{"rendered":"#NYC parents protest all-virtual classes for older kids"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#NYC parents protest all-virtual classes for older kids<\/strong>”
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A group of Big App<\/a>le parents rallied outside City Hall on Sunday to demand the return to hybrid learning for all grades \u2014 the day before only K-5 students were set to head back into classrooms.<\/p>\n

Joining a recent wave of protests across the country calling for more in-class instruction, about 70 parents and kids waved signs that said things such as, \u201cSafest place for children is in school\u201d and \u201cHome detention is not education.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cSpring was really tough,\u2019\u2019 said mom Suzanne Nossel, who has a 16-year-old son and 13-year-old daughter in New York City\u2019s public-school system, which switched to all-virtual learning at the height of the pandemic.<\/p>\n

Nossel and other parents at the rally said the city needs to reopen its middle and high schools to hybrid learning again, not just the lower grades, for the kids\u2019 sake.<\/p>\n

\u201cHaving the interaction with the teachers, the social<\/a> opportunities \u2014 it\u2019s such a critical age in terms of development,\u2019\u2019 the mom said of the older students.<\/p>\n

Nossel\u2019s daughter, Liza Greenberg, an eighth-grader at MS 243 on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, agreed.<\/p>\n

\u201cI [was] doing remote school since March, and we recently went back to hybrid, and it was so great to see my friends and actually have the human contact that is so important at my age,\u201d the teen said.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen school went back remote [in November], I know a lot of my friends have been struggling with mental-health issues, depression, eating disorders, and it\u2019s going to continue unless we actually take action.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hybrid instruction in city schools began in late September, only to shut down amid spiking local COVID-19 cases in early November.<\/p>\n

Ten days later, Mayor de Blasio announced he was reopening the younger grades to partial in-person learning again, as federal and local health officials reported schools\u2019 coronavirus rates were far lower than their communities\u2019 and younger students appear less vulnerable to the virus.<\/p>\n

Still, hybrid learning in the lower grades is only open to the 195,000 kids whose parents already signed them up for hybrid \u2014 as long as the children have signed consent forms for the Education Department\u2019s mandatory, random, now-weekly coronavirus testing.<\/p>\n

A showdown was looming between the schools and some parents who have balked over the notion of having their kids tested without them present \u2014 with a group of moms and dads vowing to show up at buildings Monday to usher their children in without the forms.<\/p>\n

The city had been using a threshold of a 3 percent positive-test rate involving the virus to shut down its schools. Once the city went over that threshold, the schools were to shut, although de Blasio then recently reversed course involving the lower grades.<\/p>\n

More than 15,000 people have signed a change.org petition <\/a>demanding Hizzoner toss that 3 percent limit altogether.<\/p>\n

\u201cIndoor dining remains open. Gyms remain open. Nail salons and barbershops remain open. Only schools are threatened with closure. This is nonsensical,\u2019\u2019 the petition says.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe arbitrary 3% rate to close schools should be abandoned in favor of recognizing how important schools are to our children, to our parents, and to this City.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mia Eisner-Grynberg, 38, whose husband teaches in the upper grades in the city, was at Sunday\u2019s protest over the continued closure of the middle and high schools.<\/p>\n

\u201cWatching what my husband has been experiencing at his [grade] six to 12 school at the time when [students] were in school, I can tell you 100 percent those kids who were coming into the building were the kids who need to be in school,\u2019\u2019 she told The Post.<\/p>\n

\u201cTo take those very vulnerable kids in particular and say, \u2018You can\u2019t be here\u2019 for the indefinite future, it\u2019s baseless, it\u2019s arbitrary, and it\u2019s wrong.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mayoral spokeswoman Avery Cohen told The Post in an e-mail Sunday, \u201cMayor de Blasio is the only big-city mayor in the country who has been able to open schools successfully.\u00a0 <\/p>\n

\u201cThousands of children will be in classrooms this week, and we\u2019re working to get our middle and high schoolers back as quickly as possible. The safety in our schools has parents across the city rejoicing, and it\u2019s a testament to the Mayor\u2019s leadership in these tumultuous times.\u201d<\/p>\n

The debate over the re-opening of schools to more in-person learning is heating up across the US, where there have been protests in at least nine cities including the Big Apple, in the past week, Medium reported.<\/p><\/div>\n

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