Hey NYC education reporters! Here are some headlines waiting to be articles:
The mayor promised to test 20% of kids: Here’s how many are really getting tested.
The DOE spent millions on subpar air filters: why?
These kids got Covid at school: Here are their stories.
.@NYCMayor@NYCSchools plan is to actively hide the number of Covid infections from families for a political agenda, at the expense of everyone
Do you know how many kids were tested at your kids school? How many positives there were?
So basically- and unsurprisingly- the whole “learning loss” panic was BS.
Because this week hundreds of thousands of nyc kids had zero learning. Zero. And no one cares.
Other than learning that @NYCMayor@DOEChancellor@NYCSchools@KathyHochul don’t give a crap about them.
The safest, most mentally healthy place for students to be is in freezing, half-filled classrooms, in their winter jackets, supervised by a skeleton crew of demoralized public servants, who have been abandoned by the elected leaders 🇺🇸
This @nytimes report exemplifies everything wrong w/ current edu journalism: not one single teacher or frontline school staffer interviewed but plenty of verbiage from politicians and quotes from an Ivy Leaguer and the head of an advocacy group funded by Walton and Koch money.
Stop lying and saying the “Safest Place for kids to be is in school”. No it’s NOT! The positivity rate is 30%! Our schools are overcrowded & poorly ventilated! Kids aren’t wearing high quality masks and the DOE isn’t testing or tracing adequately!STOP IT!
The school that @NYCMayor@DOEChancellor paraded around today to pretend schools were safe? 41% of its students were absent today. Why? Cuz @nycschools families know #SchoolsAreNotSafe right now during a COVID surge.
It's ~6pm and we know now @NYCSchools attendance today was 67.38%. (For reference, attendance March 13, 2020 was 68%.) It's not just staff out; it's also hundreds of thousands of students. Our families know #SchoolsAreNotSafe and their kids deserve a remote option.
I’ve never seen anything remotely close to the level of discontent with the @UFT I’m seeing this week.
While other unions and cities push for and win things like required testing before returning to schools, they won’t even call a damn town hall to speak to their own members.