{"id":151193,"date":"2021-01-09T04:15:10","date_gmt":"2021-01-09T01:15:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/why-city-public-schools-keep-failing-the-pandemic-challenge\/"},"modified":"2021-01-09T04:15:10","modified_gmt":"2021-01-09T01:15:10","slug":"why-city-public-schools-keep-failing-the-pandemic-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/why-city-public-schools-keep-failing-the-pandemic-challenge\/","title":{"rendered":"#Why city public schools keep failing the pandemic challenge"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Why city public schools keep failing the pandemic challenge<\/strong>”
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Nine months into the pandemic, the city teachers\u2019 union is still pushing for maximum school closures while administrators remain both distant and disastrously incompetent.<\/p>\n

After long waffling on the issue, Mayor de Blasio now says schools should remain open for the rest of the year. Yet United Federation of Teachers chief Michael Mulgrew this week urged the city to adopt the state\u2019s now-outdated 9 percent community-infection rate to trigger school closings.<\/p>\n

Yes, this is the same Mike Mulgrew who recently backed off his demand for complete closures when a neighborhood crosses the 3 percent line, after that proved a huge public-relations black eye.<\/p>\n

Thing is, a UFT faction called the Solidarity Caucus wants to end in-person learning entirely. According to Gothamist<\/a>, the group and the larger MORE-UFT caucus want schools to go all-remote until the virus passes and vaccinations are more widespread.<\/p>\n

Setting aside the Department of Education\u2019s hyperbole about having the \u201cgold standard in safety measures,\u201d public schools now require weekly testing of students and staff plus face coverings, and closing buildings when the need arises. Middle and high schools are now all-remote, though quality learning an ever-more-remote possibility with each passing day.<\/p>\n

Yet for union hard-liners, it\u2019s not enough. These so-called educators want elementary school kids and children with disabilities to suffer the same fate.<\/p>\n

School administrators, meanwhile, can\u2019t even keep track of which kids are enrolled. As The Post\u2019s Susan Edelman reports, not only did the DOE turn a parochial high schooler into a phantom public-school student and issue bogus report cards, it actually sicced child abuse investigators on the boy\u2019s family.<\/p>\n

The boy\u2019s mother, Margaret Tomasi, told The Post that her son never enrolled at Brooklyn\u2019s Cobble Hill HS; he\u2019s an honor student at Xaverian HS. But she found it impossible to reach any administrators to correct the mix-up.<\/p>\n

The school put the kid on its missing-student list despite failing to connect with the family. That led to a home visit by Administration for Children\u2019s Services caseworkers investigating \u201csuspected child abuse\u201d thanks to a referral from Cobble Hill administrators. (ACS closed the case after Xaverian officials set them straight.)<\/p>\n

But the DOE comedy of errors doesn\u2019t end. The school had sent the family two report cards giving the lad identical incomplete-but-passing grades. In comments, an algebra teacher even cited his progress in three areas \u2014 a bogus personal assessment for a phantom student. A gym teacher gave him the highest grade \u201cME\u201d for \u201cexceeding standards\u201d \u2014 when gyms and playgrounds were closed. The \u201cMindfulness\u201d instructor helpfully noted, \u201cFrequently does not submit course work.\u201d<\/p>\n

The DOE\u2019s grading policy during the pandemic doesn\u2019t allow for any attendance requirement, bans F\u2019s and encourages teachers to use canned \u201cassessment\u201d language. Tomasi could have moved up the next grade without ever having attended school.<\/p>\n

Oh, and the city\u2019s agreement with the UFT suspends teacher assessments, too \u2014 a bribe to keep the union from striking when the mayor first wanted schools to reopen.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s no wonder enrollment is plummeting as parents seek alternative schools that don\u2019t use COVID as an excuse to give up, whether private, parochial or charter. What unites virtually all those schools is that they\u2019re free of both the UFT and the DOE \u2014 two institutions that put the children\u2019s needs at the bottom of the priority list.\n <\/p><\/div>\n

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