New York
City’s mayor announced this evening that the city’s public schools will be
closed from tomorrow until at least April 20, and possibly through the end of
the school year. I’m not teaching in the schools, but I know, while this is
probably the best move from a public health standpoint, this will cause a heap
of problems: for children with special needs for whom remote learning will be
most difficult, for children who live in homeless shelters for whom school is
the most stable place. Children who depend on the free lunches will be able to
pick them up, and take them home, for at least the next week.
Teachers
will spend next week learning how to teach remotely, and there is some plan to
get computers to the 300,000 or so children in the system who don’t have them
at home.
Good luck to all you New York City school teachers out there.
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