Mayor Bill De Blasio’s plans for re-opening the nation’s largest school district flew off the rails this week due to a “Staffing Crunch” as teachers, parents, and students were left with no clue whether to send their kids to class or stay home.
“As schools face a staffing crunch, @NYCSchools will no longer require that blended learning students be given synchronous (aka live) instruction every day they’re remote. Live teaching time will vary by school. Fully remote will still get live teaching daily. More soon,” posted the education reporter for NY1.
NEW: As schools face a staffing crunch, @NYCSchools will no longer require that blended learning students be given synchronous (aka live) instruction every day they're remote. Live teaching time will vary by school. Fully remote will still get live teaching daily. More soon.
— Jillian Jorgensen (@Jill_Jorgensen) September 16, 2020
Every day is a new adventure with the NYC Department of Education. https://t.co/tqfhePsrUJ pic.twitter.com/2qoxXyW5fF
— Karol Markowicz (@karol) September 16, 2020
Schools will no longer be required to offer ANY live instruction on blended students' remote days if they don't have the staff available to do so.
This is a major change in guidance, and in what students will experience, and comes, oh, 12 hours before they're logging on tomorrow.— Jillian Jorgensen (@Jill_Jorgensen) September 16, 2020
Fully remote students will get live instruction every day. The number of parents choosing remote has been increasing… wonder what next week's numbers update will show us.
— Jillian Jorgensen (@Jill_Jorgensen) September 16, 2020
“I honestly…do not believe there's a lot of confusion…a friendly reminder, everyone, the DOE, City Hall, we are the people providing the services to our parents and our kids. And we've made very clear what all the preparations have been.” @NYCMayor this morning https://t.co/5gZ8Q16JeH
— katie honan (@katie_honan) September 16, 2020
My school is setting up classes so all our students face the back of the room 🙃 and I’m supposed to stand at the front and teach so I can see their computer screens 🙃 but they can’t turn around 🙃 because that would increase air shared between us 🙃 I hate it here 🙃
— Isabella Bartels (@idbartels929) September 15, 2020
h/t Twitchy
DE BLASIO SPIRALS: 2 NYPD Shot, 1 Stabbed, Mayor Says Protests Remind Him of John Lennon’s ‘Imagine’
Two members of the NYPD were shot in Brooklyn overnight Monday and another officer stabbed in the neck as protesters defied an 8pm curfew imposed by beleaguered Mayor Bill de Blasio.
“The melee unfolded when a suspect approached a cop on Church Avenue near Flatbush Avenue at about 11:45 p.m. and stabbed him in the neck, a police source said,” reports the New York Post.
Meanwhile, the mayor faced a growing backlash after saying the violent situation reminded him of John Lennon’s utopian anthem ‘Imagine.’
NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio: "I don't mean to make light of this but I'm reminded of the song 'Imagine' by John Lennon." pic.twitter.com/ElerZgB2y3
— The Hill (@thehill) June 3, 2020
“I don’t mean to make light of this. But I’m reminded of the song ‘Imagine’ by John Lennon. We played it at my inauguration! What about a world where people got along differently? What about a world where we didn’t live with a lot of the restrictions that we live with now,” said De Blasio. “We’re not there yet. The protest movement themselves is how we make progress!”
Read the full report at the New York Post.
DE BLASIO SPIRALS: Embattled Mayor Says Spike in CoVID Hospitalizations Has Nothing to do With Protests
New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio told reporters he would be “surprised” if a recent spike in CoVID-19 hospitalizations was related to the ongoing George Floyd protests taking place in all five boroughs.
“I would be surprised if that’s what’s causing it,” de Blasio said Friday. “I think we’re much more likely in the next week [or] 10 days to see a manifestation, if there is one.”
“It is dangerous to be close together,” he admitted. “I don’t like that.”
Watch Bill de Blasio get Booed at a George Floyd Memorial.
How embarrassing. pic.twitter.com/iaEzWStJNP
— Benny (@bennyjohnson) June 4, 2020
“If you were at one of those protests, I would, out of an abundance of caution, assume that you are infected,” Governor Cuomo said Thursday. “One person, one person can infect hundreds if you were at a protest.”
Read the full report at Fox News.
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