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The return to the classroom will be exceedingly difficult — and maybe impossible. @keithgessen reports on city schools' struggle to reopen during a still-festering pandemic https://nym.ag/2BUi8sf
The people charged with preparing the most ambitious school reopening in the country are angry at one another, working at cross-purposes, and full of distrust http://nym.ag/2BUi8sf
The city's Department of Education asked every principal in the system to measure their buildings and come up with a reopening plan that would meet social-distancing guidelines — all in less than a month http://nym.ag/2BUi8sf
Schools Chancellor Richard Carranza said schools would be deep cleaned each night. But Robert Troeller, president of Local 891 of the International Union of Operating Engineers, says the DOE’s cleaning protocols are unrealistic http://nym.ag/2BUi8sf
Carranza also said HVAC systems would be upgraded, though Troeller says most schools were built so long ago that they don't even have HVAC systems http://nym.ag/2BUi8sf
Many teachers worry that the in-classroom experience, as envisioned by the DOE, won’t be very educational http://nym.ag/2BUi8sf
Despite the precautions being taken, teachers worry that schools can’t be made safe and that the buildings are simply in too much disrepair http://nym.ag/2BUi8sf
“I want to be back in school when it’s safe,” says Annie Tan, a fifth-grade special-ed teacher in Sunset Park. “But I also don’t want kids to feel in a year’s time that their presence killed someone. I honestly think that’s going to happen” http://nym.ag/2BUi8sf
