{"id":69019,"date":"2020-09-17T04:50:44","date_gmt":"2020-09-17T01:50:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/its-time-for-the-department-of-education-to-reopen-the-schools\/"},"modified":"2020-09-17T04:50:44","modified_gmt":"2020-09-17T01:50:44","slug":"its-time-for-the-department-of-education-to-reopen-the-schools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/its-time-for-the-department-of-education-to-reopen-the-schools\/","title":{"rendered":"#It’s time for the Department of Education to reopen the schools"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#It’s time for the Department of Education to reopen the schools<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

\n Remote learning was off to a fine crash-and-burn Wednesday, with big problems all across the city. Worse yet, many teachers are determined not to show when in-person schooling resumes in a few days \u2014 under any condition. Mayor de Blasio nonetheless vows schools will open Monday. He needs to stand tough.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe mayor\u2019s reopening plan is not safe,\u201d huffed a teachers-union caucus, the Movement of Rank and File Educators. It blasted the city for \u201cinadequate contact tracing and a lack of transparency\u201d and threatened that teachers wouldn\u2019t return until they\u2019re satisfied \u2014 which looks like never.<\/p>\n

United Federation of Teachers boss Mike Mulgrew cited a \u201cmajor staffing challenge.\u201d The city is adding 2,000 teachers, but principals-union head Mark Cannizzaro says 10,000 are needed. Indeed, the hapless Department of Education dropped the news<\/a> late Tuesday that roughly half the children slated for \u201cblended\u201d learning may have no direct contact with a teacher on days when they\u2019re logged in from home.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s a mess. This is a system, after all, run by a race-obsessed chancellor whose hires have left the bureaucracy even more inept than usual.<\/p>\n

But the city is taking countless steps to make schools safe. It set up testing routines, contact tracing, ventilation procedures, hybrid schedules and numerous other measures. Kids whose parents have concerns can opt for online instruction only. Teachers with serious medical issues can get exemptions.<\/p>\n

As for the \u201cstaffing challenge,\u201d de Blasio got it right: \u201cI\u2019ve never met a manager [who] didn\u2019t want .\u2009.\u2009. more personnel,\u201d he snarked Tuesday. If gaps remain, he said, his folks will address them. That\u2019s eminently reasonable, yet not good enough for some teachers and \u00adunion leaders.<\/p>\n

What a contrast from, say, health-care providers, police or transit workers \u2014 all of whom reported for duty at the pandemic\u2019s height despite sky-high infection rates and trip<\/a>le-digit daily death tolls. This week, the infection rate has been below 1 percent; Monday\u2019s death toll: seven. Of 17,000 school officials tested, only 55 (i.e., 0.32 percent) were positive.<\/p>\n

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Brooklyn resident Mark Drew and daughter Jillian Drew a 4th grader at PS-261 in Boerum Hill.<\/span>Paul Martinka<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Meanwhile, online-only learning remains a virtual joke. Teachers spend much of the day just getting students to log on and pay attention \u2014 and that\u2019s when the system can avoid the glitches that plagued the first day of school. Many parents are counting on kids in school at least part-time so they themselves can work.<\/p>\n

Another delay would mean cheating children of anything close to a real education, while wreaking havoc on their parents\u2019 lives.<\/p>\n

De Blasio admits the system won\u2019t be perfect. And some teachers and kids will contract the virus.<\/p>\n

Some \u201cwill test positive,\u201d he noted, and they\u2019ll \u201cimmedia<\/a>tely get support.\u201d Infected students will \u201cgo home for two weeks,\u201d and then come back and complete the school year. \u201cFor the very small percentage of people who test positive for the coronavirus, it is a very temporary reality.\u201d<\/p>\n

He\u2019s absolutely right, even if it\u2019s politically incorrect to say. As the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports, 94 percent of COVID deaths have involved people with an average of 2.6 other conditions; 92 percent were 55 or older, an age when many teachers have already retired. Younger people often don\u2019t get sick or, if they do, recover quickly.<\/p>\n

So what happ<\/a>ened to \u201cfollow the science<\/a>\u201d? Doctors and scientists (the American Academy of Pediatrics, for example) stress that the benefits of in-person school outweigh the dangers of COVID. Fact is, it\u2019s vital to get kids out of the house, away from screens and back in class.<\/p>\n

De Blasio vows the system will open for in-person instruction Monday. Yet he also promised they\u2019d open Sept. 10, before caving. For the sake of the kids, parents \u2014 and science \u2014 he best not buckle again.\n <\/p><\/div>\n

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