You already can see that the reopening of city schools this fall is shaping 🐟up as a complete disaster — because too many of the peo♔ple in charge would rather focus on other cares.
City Depa✤rtment of Education officials seem more concerned with issues like “white privilege,” and not how to get kids back to learning in the classroom.
Families now have no clue what the school day (or week) will loo👍k like when the new year begins in just over two months. Which days, if any, will kids do remote-learning from home? Parents with jobs may need to scramble to find adult supervision.
One principal warns that students may be in school just a third of their time, as The Post’s Selim Algar reported. In-person art, music, science, tech and phys-ed “in the traditional sense” are out, Brooklyn’s PS 107 Principal Eve Litwack notes. As is pretty much all specialized leaღrning, since folks must keep apart.
“A💧t a certain point, this isn’t school anymore,” a mom at the school sighs. “Parents don’t kn𒆙ow what to do.”
And the central bureaucracy is offering most schools no guidance on likely social-distancing rules, online-class standards or anything else. It’s as if everyone from Chancellor Richard Carra🤪nza on 🉐down has just checked out.
Or is busy with stuff like like Tuesday’s “Anti-Racist Community Meeting,” sponsored by DOE’s Early Childhood Division. Forget reading and ’rithmetic; it’s Racism 101 for . . .💎 preschoolers. (And with teachers strictly🀅 segregated by race or ethnic group, too.)
Meanwhile, at a UFT delegate m𓄧eeting last week, union officials warned that🐭 “it’s pretty clear we aren’t going back into buildings” unless the feds dump millions in aid on the city’s schools.
On Tuesday, Mayor Bill de Blasio blithely insisted that “most” parents are “willing” to handle the uncertainty about the fall♑; only the “privileged” are looking to flee the system. Translation: The only parents who aren’t rushing to find other options are the ones who can’t afford anything else.
Everyone in “th🦋e other New York” will just hꦐave to put up with incompetence and chaos.