{"id":77706,"date":"2020-09-29T03:28:15","date_gmt":"2020-09-29T00:28:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/de-blasios-school-reopening-bungles-a-disgrace-by-social-justice-standards\/"},"modified":"2020-09-29T03:28:15","modified_gmt":"2020-09-29T00:28:15","slug":"de-blasios-school-reopening-bungles-a-disgrace-by-social-justice-standards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/de-blasios-school-reopening-bungles-a-disgrace-by-social-justice-standards\/","title":{"rendered":"#De Blasio’s school-reopening bungles a disgrace by social-justice standards"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#De Blasio’s school-reopening bungles a disgrace by social<\/a>-justice standards<\/strong>”
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\n Getting kids back in school is vital to all families, especially those of the less-privileged. So it\u2019s maddening to see how horribly Mayor Bill de Blasio and Chancellor Richard Carranza have screwed up \u2014 with the latest news<\/a> being word that one of de Blasio\u2019s own advisory committees flagged the likely teacher shortage four months ago.<\/p>\n

The Wall Street Journal reports that at least nine members<\/a> of the Education Sector Advisory Council are furious at how badly their advice was ignored. David Banks, president of the Eagle Academy Foundation, filed a June 2 memo discussing the need to avoid budget cuts and principals\u2019 worries their voices weren\u2019t being heard, as well as the looming teacher shortage. Later that month, the council was disbanded.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe failure here has been a failure to anticipate the obvious,\u201d Banks, an ex-principal, told the Journal. Indeed, the mayor has cited the shortage as a key reason he\u2019s had to delay the start of in-school classes twice now. It\u2019s also forced many schools to drop standards for remote classes \u2014 as children doing hybrid learning aren\u2019t even guaranteed a live teacher on their remote days.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Team de Blasio has added to the shortage by repeatedly making concessions to the United Federation of Teachers about what \u201ceducators\u201d are actually obliged to do when it comes to showing up for work or actually having live interactions with remote-instruction students.<\/p>\n

And, as The Post now reports, some schools are getting far more cash to hire substitute teachers than others \u2014 even as some would rather use added funds to hire guidance counselors or other staff, since substitutes rarely work out well.<\/p>\n

This is a grave injustice \u2014 by de Blasio\u2019s own philosophy: Better-off parents and kids can do much more to adjust when the public school system fails. The mayor\u2019s bungling plainly comes at a far higher price for \u201cthe other New York\u201d that he\u2019s always vowing to look out for.<\/p>\n

We understand why the principals\u2019 union has voted no confidence in the mayor, but we\u2019re dubious about its solution of having the State Education Department take over, since long-distance supervision would only add to the chaos.<\/p>\n

At this point \u2014 and we can\u2019t believe we\u2019re writing this \u2014 his best move might be to beg former Chancellor Carmen Fari\u00f1a to come back to resolve the crisis. But plainly the city needs someone calling the shots who actually understands how to run a school system.\n <\/p><\/div>\n

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