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Mayor Bill de Blasio officially presented his school reopening plan Friday — calling for a weekly “blended approach’’ of in-class and online learning for “a vast majority of kids.”
Most students will physically be in class two to three days a week, the mayor said.
“You can certainly say, ‘Yeah, it’s gonna be tough, it’s gonna take a lot of work,’ ’’ Hizzoner told reporters in a conference call.
He said the city’s daily positive-test rate for the coronavirus must remain below 3 percent for the plan to work. He said Friday’s figures show it remains steady at 1 percent.
The discovery of a vaccine for the deadly contagion would help bring schools “back to full strength,’’ de Blasio said, referring to all in-school learning.
He said it was “conceivable’’ that schools could fully reopen for on-site instruction without a vaccine if the number of virus cases in the city becomes virtually nonexistent but added that the scenario would be “difficult.’’
Each school’s plan will vary between one to three days of in-student learning, with the rest of the school week remote, depending on such things as its enrollment and layout, city officials said.
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The city is going to extremes to make sure this school year doesn’t get flushed.
Department of Education workers have been spotted using pieces of toilet paper stuck to the ends of sticks to gauge the airflow inside classrooms as kids return in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic.
One stunned city councilman exposed the bizarre testing method in all its low-tech glory by posting a tweet Wednesday showing a worker poking at a ceiling vent with bathroom tissue affixed to a flimsy piece of wood using a binder clip.
“The official and comprehensive NYC inter-agency classroom ventilation inspection process,”
Mark Treyger zinged in the post.
When quizzed about the tissue rig, Mayor Bill de Blasio conceded that he wasn’t qualified to issue a “a great technical answer” — but insisted that folks shouldn’t not to diss the Charmin.
“That’s actually the way the CDC recommends you test these things,” he explained.
De Blasio and Schools Chancellor Richard Carranza announced this week that the DOE would vet all city school buildings for adequate ventilation to guard against coronavirus transmission.
The pair said that DOE engineers would spearhead the sweep and that the vast majority of schools would be cleared for operation by September 1.
4 comments:
When quizzed about the tissue rig, Mayor Bill de Blasio conceded that he wasn’t qualified to issue a “a great technical answer”
Well what do you know? This may be the first time that the all knowledgeable, omnipotent genius mayor admits to not being qualified about something. This admission alone is THE highlight of 2020 in NYC.
They're shoving that toilet paper up the wrong crack!
Pretty much sums up their knowledge.
Loving the first three anonymi this morning!!
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