New York City unveiled a preliminary plan to bring students back and provide some much-needed relief for parents. But it isn’t nearly enough. realaxelfoley and lisaxmiller discuss
What the fall will look like is still very unclear. Photo: fStop Images - Emily Keegin/Getty Images As Americans struggle to plan for the fall school term amid a pandemic that isn’t going away, New York City unveiled a preliminary protocol to bring students back and provide some much needed relief for parents. But it isn’t nearly enough.
Parents can’t plan. Kids can’t learn. Parents can’t work. Kids can’t see each other. It’s an unbelievable crisis. And no one has talked sufficiently about overcrowding. SO MANY NYC public schools are overcrowded, especially in underserved neighborhoods. The CDC can mandate distancing requirements, but the schools can’t comply within their infrastructure limits.
Ben: What, you mean President Trump just threatening state governments if they don’t reopen schools isn’t enough for you? Ben: The consensus among parents seems to be that even aside from all the problems created by kids being at home all the time, online learning just isn’t very effective. Have you found that to be true? And if the city could get to a hybrid model where the online part was, say, cut in half, would that make much of a difference?
Ben: Right — this schools reopening plan, like so much else, would be easier for the affluent to negotiate. Lisa: Yes. We used to say “children are our future.” Now it’s like, children are underfoot and impeding our ability to do our jobs, but, whatever, we’ll keep them home because we can’t figure out what else to do with them. It’s not okay, as we say in our house. AND if the virus stays at this level in New York — big IF — there ARE ways to stay safe if people can put their heads together and put some money and some energy and creativity into it.
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