NY Post
One after another, sick Brooklyn Technical High School teachers called union chapter leader Nate Bonheimer last week, to tell him they’d tested positive for COVID-19.
By Friday, five of them had shared the devastating news. But after being notified about each one, the city Department of Education still ordered the 6,000-student school’s 350 staffers to show up for work last week, saying the building had been cleaned.
“The DOE did not close the school for any of the cases,” said Bonheimer, who worries that inaction exposed others to the dreaded infection.
The city failed to follow a March 9 directive by the state Education Department that “requires an initial 24-hour closure, in order to begin an investigation to determine the contacts that the individual may have had within the school environment.”
DOE did not attempt to identify close contacts, Bonheimer said. “They did not alert the people who needed to know the most to protect themselves, their families and everyone else they came into contact with.”
One infected teacher was so torn by the secrecy he took it upon himself to personally let all his students know his condition.
Around the city, teachers and administrators are outraged that Mayor Bill de Blasio and Schools Chancellor Richard Carranza resisted a drum beat to close the public schools in the name of safety.
Some renamed the coronavirus “Carranzavirus.”
“You say equity and excellence, but every other school district closed before you did. You had these kids like petri dishes spreading this to their families,” an administrator fumed.
Some DOE employees believe de Blasio and Carranza deliberately kept the lid on the COVID-19 cases popping up, putting kids and families at risk.
“The blood is on their hands,” one said
NY Post
A Brooklyn principal has died due to complications from the coronavirus — the first known death of a city public school staffer tied to the pandemic, officials said Monday.
Dezann Romain, 36, led the Brooklyn Democracy Academy in Brownsville, a transfer school that serves students who have dropped out or fallen behind in credits in traditional high school settings.
“It is with profound sadness and overwhelming grief that we announce the passing of our sister, CSA member Dezann Romain, Principal of Brooklyn Democracy Academy, due to complications from Coronavirus,” the union said in a statement.
“Our prayers are with her family and school community as we mourn alongside them. Please keep Principal Romain in your thoughts and continue to do everything possible to keep yourselves and your loved ones safe during this health crisis.”
Romain was promoted from assistant principal between 2016 and 2017, public records show.
“This is painful for all of us, and I extend my deepest condolences to the Brooklyn Democracy Academy community, and the family of Principal Romain,” Schools Chancellor Richard Carranza said in a statement.
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To make matters worse, there was not a investigative follow up by Health Department officials tracing who the positive teacher had interactions with. Since each teacher teaches up to 175 students, can you imagine these students possibly sharing it with other teachers and each subsequent teachers sharing it with another 175 students? The entire group of students would need to have to have been quarantined. That never happened.
While people blame the inhabitant of the WH for his corruption and blunders, this falls squarely in the hands of Diblasio and his underlings. Why the orders not to contact the Department of Health? It was clearly an attempt of muzzling the beginnings of the epidemic.
There is surely much more that City Hall needs to be held accountable for.
I Remember when the Democrats came unglued for holding aid to Ukraine? Now Pelosi is withholding aid to Americans and what do you hear from the Democrats....CRICKETS!!! Not one word from them. You democrats are useless!!
Sorry if I'm in the minority on all of this but I actually think this "virus" Is nothing more than a conspiracy and what people are just getting is the flu and it's being covered up by the government and CDC because they messed up the flu vaccines very badly this year. But that's just my opinion which I know I'm in the minority on. Anyway, better to be safe than sorry,so stay well everyone!
Caranzavirus played the fiddle while public education burned with FEVER.
Yes, and DiBlasio wanted the schools open so that they could provide Free Meals to the usual population...obviously, there was no such thing as a "free lunch" in this case. CRIMINAL!
Maybe De Blasio was a believer in the herd immunity theory.
To the dumb idiot who posted above, did you read the bill??? No, you did not. If you had used your feeble mind to read it (rather than parrot the GOP talking points), you would have seen that the bill is larded up with giveaways to corporations but hardly anything for the citizens. And, by the way, this bill is nothing for corporate socialism!
"To the dumb idiot who posted above, did you read the bill???"
Yes Democrat's are playing "Let's make a deal" with American's lives.
The teachers have strong union. File a grievance.
Anonymous said...
Sorry if I'm in the minority on all of this but I actually think this "virus" Is nothing more than a conspiracy and what people are just getting is the flu and it's being covered up by the government and CDC because they messed up the flu vaccines very badly this year. But that's just my opinion which I know I'm in the minority on. Anyway, better to be safe than sorry,so stay well everyone!
Wednesday, March 25, 2020
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