NYC Public School Students and Staff Deserve The Safest Possible Learning Environments: An Open Letter to Governor Hochul, Mayor Adams, Commissioners Rosa, Bassett, and Chokshi, Chancellors Banks and Young (and any staff creating or implementing COVID

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An Open Letter to Governor Hochul, Mayor Adams, Commissioners Rosa, Bassett, and Chokshi, Chancellors Banks and Young (and any staff creating or implementing COVID related policy)

NYC Public School Students and Staff Deserve The Safest Possible Learning Environments

The following are the minimum requirements to ensure schools are truly safe and protect the health of all children, educators, and their families. Each link takes you to that section for more detailed information:

1. Regularly post transparent, accurate, and essential data

2. Implement data-driven policies for ventilation & masks

3. Use testing to prevent spread, not as a talking point

4. Make a clear, sound, & responsible plan for future surges

5. Address the misguided pressure to return to “normal”

6. Make sure infectious students and staff observe safe isolation periods

7. Offer vaccination at school, including boosters, for staff and students

During the January surge:

• According to the NY Times, 3 children (0-17) died in NYC

• Richard “Zaire” Keyes-Neal, a District 75 student at P141K, lost his battle with COVID-19

• 1,587 NYC children between the ages of 0-17 were hospitalized with/for COVID

• 108,625 student cases were reported by the DOE’s situation room, 82% of all cases this year

• Students from 30 schools participated in a walkout demanding safer school conditions

• In-school prevalence rates rose to 15% of all students and staff tested

• Only 36% of 0-17 year olds were fully vaccinated 

• Families experienced an information blackout when situation room letters were halted for two weeks...

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The Blake Beat: "I’ve always wanted to live out a dystopian fiction plotline. A huge health crisis going on globally, schools only caring about politics and not the safety of their community, spending my time always being worried about dying instead of normal teenage activities."

 I love it at school right now.

Nothing like walking into the hallways and breathing in a thick scent of dread and fear. Smells great, really. Some people are even pulling down their masks to get a nice whiff. Who could blame them?

We even get breaks from our teachers all the time! Isn’t that great? I mean, nobody likes their teacher, the person they’re plenty used to getting instruction from at this point in the year. It’s MUCH better to get a change of pace of teachers, especially burnt out teachers that need to be using the time to plan for their other classes or tend to the students who are stuck at home.

I get to go through my classes, nice and exhausted, and retain not a single word that was said. Doing my assignments by stumbling through them is so much better than actually trying. No stress about getting right or wrong answers if you BSed the whole thing. Really taking advantage of in-person learning, because students can REALLY get the benefits of in-person instruction. I’m definitely learning better than I ever would at home...

https://www.theblakebeat.com/live-laugh-love/

Blair High School Students to Participate in Student Walkout Jan. 21st

 

https://www.instagram.com/mcpsstudentwalkout2022/

Blair HS principal reported daily absentee avg. rate of 24% out of 3,220 students this month at PTSA meeting last night. 700-800 students absent a day?! Blair principal did not opt for virtual option.

— Parents' Coalition (@PCMC1) January 19, 2022

@mcps @mocoboe Student Walk Out for Student Safety - Friday January 21st at 12PM

 

Let’s put pressure on the Board of Education to act NOW for the sake of our health!

https://linktr.ee/MCPSwalkout