While some CPS elementary students were able to return to in-person learning this week, high school students and parents wonder if and when they ll be able to do the same.
In the meantime, while K-4th graders return for a hybrid schedule this week, Jackson said it remains a challenge convincing many parents to send their children back. We ve seen this throughout the country when school opens, you end up with about 25-30% who opt-in first, but as confidence grows over time, those numbers tick up, Jackson said.
CPS parent Sabrina Jackson is keeping her 3rd grader home. I did not let him go back into the building and my reason behind that is, I felt the schools were not up to par yet for me, she explained.
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New York City educators call for action to stop in-person schooling and save lives
New York City’s Democratic Mayor Bill de Blasio, with the collaboration of the United Federation of Teachers (UFT), is now actively preparing to open high schools for face-to-face instruction in the largest school district in the US. The new Chancellor of Schools, Meisha Porter, recently pledged, “I promise we’ll do everything to reopen schools, starting with high schools.”
Under conditions in which the New York B.1.526 variant of COVID-19 is spreading largely undetected throughout the city, the drive to reopen all schools will escalate the deadly conditions confronting educators and the entire working class.
Liberals claim to be driven by science. It is increasingly clear, however, that science only matters when it is beneficial to their political interests.