Upper West Side, NYC dive bar update: hot. Humid. No A/C. Two idiots to my right arguing the modern day dividing lines of east and west egg, and two to my left demanding the bar put baywatch on tv. Life makes sense.
@NYC_stateofmind My kid attended middle school in NYC - she learned all the states (and capitals) about midway through 8th grade. So this should be covered in the coming school year for him.
@karenvaites@kportermagee And math fundamentals (eg memorization of times tables). Also noteworthy that this is a new phenomenon- a Stanford study in 2009 showed no advantage to Catholic schools in reading and they were behind public schools in math.
@Shelli_Rosen@elizashapiro I am not anti-vax. I was vaccinated and support teacher mandates. Data shows unvaccinated kids are less risky (not zero risk, but less) than unvaccinated adults. The hypocrisy of the teachers is infuriating
@elizashapiro It’s the vaccinated teachers who should be supporting this mandate as their unvaccinated peers are more dangerous than the students ever were.
@HammSanchez@nytimes@elizashapiro@NYCSchools@UFT@deanbaquet Counterpoint- quality input won’t come from Twitter. NYC parents and UFT teachers wishing to voice concerns can always email her. What frustrating is that the accounts she permits to reply agree with her, giving illusion of consensus.
@karenvaites@emmabgo I wouldn’t give too much credit. Yes, she included a pro-open, schools are safe quote… from a mom in Staten Island. I almost feel like this is a very backhanded way of delegitimizing this POV.
@MyMomSaysImFun1 @MarkLevineNYC This idea is ethically abhorrent. You want insurance companies denying coverage for failure to prevent illness? Do we refuse to cover treatment for overdoses? Obesity? Someone hit by a car while jaywalking?
@angrybklynmom@NYCMayor@NYGovCuomo@RichAzzopardi 100% correct. Nobody will trust that mandates will ever cease regardless of hospital capacity. Nobody will see any point to getting variant boosters. A rerun to mandates will have long term adverse consequences for the economy and public health.