“We don’t have full instruction and sometimes we don’t even have a teacher overlooking us in those classrooms,” said Stephanie, a Brooklyn Tech High School student who didn’t want to give her last name. “It seems like everyone around you is getting sick.”reported in the school system
“Teachers cannot be required to provide asynchronous instruction and Office Hours… a family is keeping a student home and is requesting all assignments,” said the memo from First Deputy Chancellor Dan Weisberg. “For these students, staff are expected to engage in normal past practices with respect to non-COVID student absences.”
That means about 8% of K-12 students got tested last week. Students in the 3K and Pre-K programs are not part of surveillance testing, and students who don’t opt in to the surveillance program are also not part of the testing pool.
I think now is not the time as the numbers are down trending and the children have lost way too much in education with many falling behind. The students who are absent because of COVID will be better to return - those absent because of fear , well......
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Note that one of the facts is wrong in this article. Kindergarten students are not yet being included in the surveillance covid testing. Just first grade and older. As a kindergarten parent, I think this should change to include 3K, pre-K and K ByJessicaGould bysophiachang
It should not have taken this long to create a remote option for kids, if families asked for one months ago. City agencies and our leaders need to stop with the whiplash policies and mandates and instead LISTEN to what the populace has been saying all along.
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