ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — New York schools can bring children back to classrooms for the start of the school year, Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced Friday, citing success in battling the coronavirus in the state that once was the U.S. heart of the pandemic.
NY (0.95%) is one of the 15 states that has a positivity rate that is lower than 5%, a WHO guideline for reopening.
Risks between Old Covid hotspot (NY) and New Covid hotspot (FL):
Wow that’s awesome. Here’s hoping that opening the schools doesn’t change the rate at all.
I love a success story with this shit.
NYC is one of the few places that may be able to pull off a safe school reopening.
However, I am still pessimistic that the re-opening can be sustained if/when the first students or teachers test positive.
De Blasio said a return to classroom instruction is vital to jump-starting the city’s economy, now hobbled by parents being forced to stay home with their children.
If ever there were an opportunity to pay parents (or other family members) a public “child-care stipend”…
Staying at home to care for children during a deadly, global pandemic is it.
As a temporary measure to slow community spread, keep children, parents, grandparents, and educators safe, meet basic needs, and keep the economy moving, it strikes me as less than odious.
Have any self-identified “progressives”, big-city mayors or otherwise, floated this?
They need to. I so agree with you.
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Fingers crossed for them. I hope they’ve spent the whole summer up to now planning for this, because if they waited for this go-ahead to start planning they’re up the creek. (At the very least you have to have done surveys of every classroom and hallway in every school to find out how many kids you can accomodate at not-completely-unsafe distances. And have testing/screening protocols in place. And…)
Focusing on the science for a safe reopening…gee, that seems so novel in the way most of the US has handled this. NY is doing it right, we’ll have to wait and see if they can pull it off, because if they can’t with their current infection rates then everyone needs to shut down and figure out how to handle home schooling until a vaccine is procured. Either way, it’s a challenging environment, I don’t envy anyone who has to deal with this right now.
Well, there goes their success story.
They all get plenty more than us single folks with all their favorable tax treatment and write-offs.
Here in NYS we still have a month. Schools don’t open until after Labor Day. Many have added a week after that as the date to start. Hope for the best. My granddaughters need to be in school.
hahahahaha Now I’m beginning to think that he just didn’t want to see Trump hahahahahahahahaha
Guess I’m okay with this. He’s been one of the few reasonable ones in this crisis.
Gohmert, though…
I have mixed feelings about this.
I hope it doesn’t backfire but it would be nice if things here in NYC got back to normal.
I’m more worried about all the yahoos from other states showing up as tourists and starting it all over again.
Yeah. I hate to be a buzzkill too, but sometimes it’s just more adaptive to enter into an observational state. I’m a gonna monitor the situation.
Hawaii had a success story. Then they let tourists back in, and their new case rate per capita went from best in nation to 12th, and still climbing.
NY is in a position to do this. Other states are not.
Still, it’s quite likely that there will be spikes as happened in Israel. The hybrid plan is the best model as it can easily be transitioned to full online, as I think will probably happen. If it were me, I’d close down all in person schooling through 12/31. Failing that, a hybrid is the best fall back position. All school sports should be shut down for the year.
But it’s going to be a cake walk compared to the horror show that’s coming in Georgia. On a webex meeting yesterday, a colleague there with kids in high school said that basically all of the schools are already turning up Covid-positive teachers.
