{"id":505774,"date":"2022-11-02T05:34:09","date_gmt":"2022-11-02T02:34:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/award-for-pro-mask-pro-lockdown-nyc-teacher-has-a-lot-to-learn\/"},"modified":"2022-11-02T05:34:09","modified_gmt":"2022-11-02T02:34:09","slug":"award-for-pro-mask-pro-lockdown-nyc-teacher-has-a-lot-to-learn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/award-for-pro-mask-pro-lockdown-nyc-teacher-has-a-lot-to-learn\/","title":{"rendered":"#Award for pro-mask, pro-lockdown?! NYC teacher has a lot to learn"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a3f3c52633ab\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a3f3c52633ab\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/award-for-pro-mask-pro-lockdown-nyc-teacher-has-a-lot-to-learn\/#%E2%80%9CAward_for_pro-mask_pro-lockdown_NYC_teacher_has_a_lot_to_learn%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;Award for pro-mask, pro-lockdown?! NYC teacher has a lot to learn&#8221;<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CAward_for_pro-mask_pro-lockdown_NYC_teacher_has_a_lot_to_learn%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;Award for pro-mask, pro-lockdown?! NYC teacher has a lot to learn&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<div>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>Bashing the parents of the students you teach, especially those who fought to get kids back into your classroom and freed from irrational and harmful totems like face masks, is <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>arently a good career move for some New York City schoolteachers \u2014 and profitable, too.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/bobsonwong\">Bobson Wong<\/a>, a 17-year veteran math teacher, was just awarded <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/patch.com\/new-york\/bayside\/bayside-math-teacher-awarded-20-000-exceptional-education-methods\">$20,000<\/a> and the MfA Muller Award for Professional Influence in Education for \u201cinfluencing the teaching profession in exceptional ways\u201d and his \u201cability to have a positive impact within [his] school community and drive change outside of [his] own classroom.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>On <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Twitter<\/a>, meanwhile, Wong regularly and publicly shares his disdain for the parents of his students who advocated opening schools \u2014 in Marxist, classist language.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen I see the \u2018keep schools open\u2019 screaming about ending mask mandates from the comfort of their home offices in their posh neighborhoods unaffected by COVID, I shake my head. Centering your convenience at the expense of everyone is the embodiment of privilege.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"835\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/maud-maron-125.jpg?w=835\" alt=\"bobson wong\" class=\"wp-image-24492052\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/maud-maron-125.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1252 1252w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/maud-maron-125.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=835 835w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/maud-maron-125.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=417 417w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/maud-maron-125.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 835px) 100vw, 835px\"\/><figcaption>Wong tweeted his scorn for parents who advocated opening schools.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Twitter<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Wong might want to seek out an English teacher for a refresher class in irony. No single profession had their \u201cconvenience centered\u201d more than unionized public-school teachers who fought to keep them \u201cworking\u201d from home and made sure they were first in line for vaccines (and did not have to return to work after being vaccinated!).<\/p>\n<p>The teachers union also successfully fought off the reasonable request to livestream class lessons when up to two-thirds of students were at home because of New York City\u2019s insane union-driven cohorting system, which did nothing to lower transmission of COVID and did so much to deny so many public-school children stranded at home days, weeks and months of in-person school.<\/p>\n<p>Teachers, ER doctors, EMTs, firefighters, cops, corrections officers and MTA bus drivers and subway conductors who worked through the pandemic could help explain to Wong what \u201ccentering your convenience\u201d and \u201cprivilege\u201d actually look like.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"586\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/maud-maron-124.jpg?w=1024\" alt=\"bobson wong\" class=\"wp-image-24492050\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/maud-maron-124.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1536 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/maud-maron-124.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/maud-maron-124.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>\u201cI shake my head. Centering your convenience at the expense of everyone is the embodiment of privilege,\u201d Wong tweeted. <\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Twitter<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>So could the parents, mostly moms, who left the workforce and had careers end or stall so they could do the jobs that teachers were still being paid to do \u2014 you know, teach kids. Wong has an impressive pedigree: He\u2019s a Bronx <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/sciencee\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"5\" title=\"Science\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Science<\/a> graduate with a BA from Princeton and two master\u2019s degrees. He may well be a great math teacher. <\/p>\n<p>But one wonders: Wouldn\u2019t all those degrees and nearly two decades of teaching math imbue some basic numeracy? New York\u2019s extended school closures and lockdowns did nothing to slow or stop the COVID transmission that ravaged our city in spring 2020. In the end, New York state fared worse than Florida, our polar opposite when it comes to pandemic policy, in terms of mortality rates.<\/p>\n<p>New York\u2019s self-inflicted economic damage, youth mental-health crisis and devastating learning loss are what we open-school parents were trying to prevent. And we were right to do so, Mr. Wong. We were also brave, stubborn, resilient and, eventually, immune to the lame and ridiculous accusation of privilege tossed around by you and so many others.<br \/>We did not have the privilege of letting your vitriol bother us \u2014 we had to do the hard work of getting schools open.<\/p>\n<p><em>Maud Maron is a co-founder of Parent Leaders for Accelerated Curriculum and Education (PLACE-NYC) and former Democratic congressional candidate.<\/em>\n                        <\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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