Chaotic Reopening of NYC Schools: This Is What Mayoral Control Looks Like

For Teacher-Student-Parent-Worker Control of the Schools!
Chaotic Reopening of NYC Schools: This Is What Mayoral Control Looks Like
Use Union Power to Reopen Schools Safely!

By Class Struggle Education Workers/UFT

http://www.internationalist.org/mayoral-control-leads-to-nyc-schools-chaos-2102.html

The deadly coronavirus pandemic led to the first-ever nationwide U.S. school shutdown. While coronavirus cases were escalating in much of the country, rates of infection and of positive tests for COVID-19 in the summer and early fall were far lower in New York City, making it possible to reopen schools. The actual reopening of NYC schools in the fall was a story of unending chaos, with changing deadlines and confusing schedules of “blended” and fully remote instruction. Class Struggle Education Workers and the Internationalist Group declared “Where Infection Rate Is Low, Schools Should Reopen Safely with Billions for Sanitation & Ventilation, Triple Classrooms Now, Hire Thousands.” Those who demanded that schools be kept closed even where virus contagion was low (and now even with vaccine becoming available) went against overwhelming evidence that “remote education” can’t work for the great majority of students and exacerbates racial/class inequalities. They play into the hands of the enemies of public education and blow the critical opportunity to win important safety measures which are also key to quality education, particularly by sharply reducing class size. The CSEW calls for union-led teacher-parent-student-worker committees at every school to inspect and sign off on reopening plans. Chaotic Reopening of NYC Schools: This Is What Mayoral Control Looks Like (23 February 2021)

Submitted February 28, 2021 at 08:22AM by a_indabronx https://ift.tt/2NLoYpP