NYC mayoral candidate Eric Adams comes under attack for remote-learning comments Shant Shahrigian Leading mayoral candidate Eric Adams, the Brooklyn borough president, came under attack on Sunday over comments earlier this year suggesting one teacher could handle hundreds of students at a time during virtual summer school. Rival candidate Maya Wiley, a former top legal aide to Mayor de Blasio, took aim at Adams and at online learning. “Online learning is not racial equity because kids of color fall further behind in online learning,” she said at a press conference in Jackson Heights, Queens. “That was before COVID. We have not figured out how to make it work for our kids, any of them.