{"id":132735,"date":"2020-12-14T01:41:08","date_gmt":"2020-12-13T22:41:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/ny-leaders-driving-parents-insane-with-school-closing-moves\/"},"modified":"2020-12-14T01:41:08","modified_gmt":"2020-12-13T22:41:08","slug":"ny-leaders-driving-parents-insane-with-school-closing-moves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/ny-leaders-driving-parents-insane-with-school-closing-moves\/","title":{"rendered":"#NY leaders driving parents insane with school-closing moves"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#NY leaders driving parents insane with school-closing moves<\/strong>”
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Bad enough parents must play Red Light, Green Light on kids\u2019 in-person learning; worse, the rules of the game<\/a> are unclear, ever-changing and set sometimes by Mayor de Blasio,\u00a0sometimes by Gov. \u00adCuomo \u2014 two\u00a0officials who are rarely on the same page.<\/p>\n

Families\u00a0are now again wondering: Are their kids\u2019 schools about to close down for the umpteenth time \u2014 after reopening just last\u00a0Monday? And what does it depend on?<\/p>\n

Out of some 850 schools that opened the first week, 19 schools had closed for various periods by Friday \u2014\u00a0plus one Staten Island school that was shuttered before it even opened.<\/p>\n

And the governor has been imposing\u00a0new restrictions, as COVID cases and hospitalizations climb. Back in July, Cuomo\u00a0set an arbitrary 9 percent positivity-rate threshold for closing schools statewide. Tuesday, Mayor de Blasio said he believes that rule is still in effect. So if COVID trends continue, new school closures may be on tap.<\/p>\n

Yet the gov has recently stressed the importance of keeping kids in school: Amid COVID, he wrote, \u201cthe safest place\u201d to be is in school. So, will he\u00a0change or scrap his 9 percent number? Alas, his aides haven\u2019t responded to questions about that.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, de Blasio vowed to open schools by early September. Then he folded in the face of a\u00a0teachers-union strike threat, repeatedly pushing off the start, until he finally opened them in October \u2014 after cutting a deal with the union that included a closure threshold of 3 percent.<\/p>\n

The uproar when he closed schools again on that basis led him to quickly reverse himself again, letting some schools reopen. Following all this?<\/p>\n

Then there\u2019s the game\u00a0with the definition of \u201cin-person\u201d learning:\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s called [an] in-person program,\u201d but kids \u201csit in front of laptops\u201d; there\u2019s no in-person instruction, fumes mom Halina Kosiorowska, whose third-grader attends PS 71 in Queens. Often teachers aren\u2019t even present; kids basically spend \u201chours in front of the iPad in a school building.\u201d<\/p>\n

Online instruction isn\u2019t improved just because kids are\u00a0in a classroom. They need live, in-person interaction with teachers.<\/p>\n

Yes,\u00a0policies need to evolve as we learn more about what\u2019s safe and what\u2019s truly risky.\u00a0But leaders need to set clearer, more reliable plans that ensure kids get a meaningful education \u2014 COVID or not.\n <\/p><\/div>\n

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“#NY leaders driving parents insane with school-closing moves” Bad enough parents must play Red Light, Green Light on kids\u2019 in-person learning; worse, the rules of the game are unclear, ever-changing and set sometimes by Mayor de Blasio,\u00a0sometimes by Gov. \u00adCuomo \u2014 two\u00a0officials who are rarely on the same page. Families\u00a0are now again wondering: Are their…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":132736,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/12\/new-york-schools.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=1200","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[70897],"tags":[83622,70430,5042,70344,43,70603,69286],"class_list":["post-132735","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-12-13-20","tag-andrew-cuomo","tag-bill-de-blasio","tag-coronavirus-in-ny","tag-editorial","tag-remote-learning","tag-schools"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132735","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=132735"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132735\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/132736"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}