The New York City teachers union warns it won’t let the nation’s largest school district reopen for in-person classes this month if the city doesn’t issue protective equipment, conduct testing and clean schools properly.
Union leader Michael Mulgrew in a Friday video accuses the city of not acting with enough urgency on the pandemic.
The return of public school students to classrooms was delayed from Sept. 10 to Sept. 21 so coronavirus safety precautions could be worked on further.
Mulgrew says the city knows what it needs to do to make schools safe and, in his words, “if you can’t make that happen before the children come into schools, then we’re not going to let you open these schools.”
(AP)
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He is right. A number of principals have been begging the NYC BoE to upgrade their HVAC systems to minimum standards, provide PPE for the entire school staff (including admin and maintenance workers) and clean the classroom and have not received a response Once school with nearly 80 staff received two boxes of 50 disposable masks, a couple of floor fans (which could make things worse) and a few containers of bleach cleaner. I’m not a big fan of the teachers union but the schools are not even close to reopen with 10 days left.
That’s The smart thing. Safety comes first!
If teachers don’t teach they aren’t teachers. Stop paying them.