{"id":152903,"date":"2021-01-12T03:28:23","date_gmt":"2021-01-12T00:28:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/teacher-vaccinations-mean-all-schools-should-reopen-full-time-asap\/"},"modified":"2021-01-12T03:28:23","modified_gmt":"2021-01-12T00:28:23","slug":"teacher-vaccinations-mean-all-schools-should-reopen-full-time-asap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/teacher-vaccinations-mean-all-schools-should-reopen-full-time-asap\/","title":{"rendered":"#Teacher vaccinations mean all schools should reopen full-time ASAP"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Teacher vaccinations mean all schools should reopen full-time ASAP<\/strong>”
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Good news<\/a>: New York City began vaccinating teachers against COVID-19 on Monday. That leaves the teachers\u2019 union no excuse for continuing to oppose in-person learning: Classrooms at all grade levels must reopen so our kids can get the education they\u2019re entitled to \u2014 but have lost out on for nearly a year.<\/p>\n

United Federation of Teachers chief Michael Mulgrew announced Sunday his members have been given vaccine priority, along with the elderly and transit and public-safety workers, after Gov. Andrew Cuomo finally gave in to Mayor Bill de Blasio\u2019s pleading and expanded eligibility. And Blas said teachers working inside classrooms get first dibs. (Though some of the 20,000 \u2014 more than one in four \u2014 who got medical exemptions to work remotely have started signing up, too.)<\/p>\n

Middle- and high-school students haven\u2019t seen the inside of a classroom since the city shut schools on Nov. 19. Though even that was only part-time. Pre-kindergarten and elementary students resumed a \u201chybrid\u201d learning last month, while special-needs kids returned to classrooms full-time. Kudos to de Blasio for getting that much done; children needing special ed are particularly ill-served by remote classes.<\/p>\n

But all kids need to go back, full-time. \u201cWithout in-person instruction, schools risk children falling behind academically and exacerbating educational inequities,\u201d warned a National Academies of Science<\/a>, Engineering and Medicine report last year. Nathaniel Beers, coauthor of the American Academy of Pediatrics\u2019 report, explained that all children suffer under remote learning, even teens: \u201cAdolescence is a period of time in life when you are to be exploring your own sense of self and developing your identity,\u201d he said. \u201cIt\u2019s difficult to do that if you are at home with your parents all the time.\u201d<\/p>\n

These experts emphasized that children were at low risk of catching or transmitting the coronavirus, but the UFT doesn\u2019t care about the science \u2014\u00a0or the students. It threatened first a lawsuit and then a strike, only going back on the job when the mayor offered new concessions, including a no-layoffs guarantee. And it has continually pushed to reclose schools and to avoid any more reopenings, with more-radical factions demanding all schools shuttered until the whole city is basically virus-free.<\/p>\n

Yet as de Blasio noted last week, \u201cThe safest place to be in New York City is, of course, our public schools.\u201d As the city\u2019s positivity rate inches up toward 9 percent, the schools are well below 1 percent. <\/p>\n

With teachers near the front of the line for vaccinations, there\u2019s no reason they can\u2019t get back on the job instead of teaching remotely from, as some of them have done, vacation spots and even the backseat of a car. New York\u2019s children have lost nearly a year of education; it\u2019s long past time they get to learn in a classroom again. \u00a0\n <\/p><\/div>\n

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“#Teacher vaccinations mean all schools should reopen full-time ASAP” Good news: New York City began vaccinating teachers against COVID-19 on Monday. That leaves the teachers\u2019 union no excuse for continuing to oppose in-person learning: Classrooms at all grade levels must reopen so our kids can get the education they\u2019re entitled to \u2014 but have lost…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":152904,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/01\/HEALTH-CORONAVIRUS_VACCINES-Q_A-1.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=1200","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[70897],"tags":[89048,70344,82862,70643,43,47212,72940],"class_list":["post-152903","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-1-11-21","tag-coronavirus-in-ny","tag-covid-vaccine","tag-department-of-education","tag-editorial","tag-teachers","tag-united-federation-of-teachers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152903","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=152903"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152903\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/152904"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=152903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=152903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=152903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}