The DOE is responsible not only in funding and hiring school nurses but should be supplying all schools with adequate toiletries and especially hand sanitizers. Again if the DOE is failing in their mission to supply hand sanitizers, then principals should be using their budget to pay for them. They should folow the example of the hospitals with no touch hand sanitizes strategically located throughout the building.
I have many colleagues in various schools and few, if any, have hand sanitizers in their schools. Manny teachers and other staff bring their own personal hand sanitizers to their classroom and offices but few share it with their students. Moreover, what about school cafeterias, bathrooms, auditoriums, and locker rooms? These common areas are a hotbed for germs and viruses and hand sanitizers are a necessary measure to limit the spread of various germs and viruses. Let's not forget that many children take mass transit to and from school, buses or trains good places to contract germs and viruses.
While the coronavirus appears not to be fatal for school-age children, that does not stop them from getting sick and the virus can potentially spread. throughout the school. . However, the precautions for the coronavirus can be effective for the common flu which can be fatal to school age children. In addition, history has shown us that closing schools before a pandemic takes hold saves lives.
Will Mayor de Blasio close the schools? I highly doubt it since the schools are a babysitting and food service and it would take a pandemic in the City to do so. Of course some communities have put the students health above their education funding Here.and Here
Note: The Mayor has ordered the DOE to hire 85 school nurses to partially cover (about 50%) of the shortfall. Let's see if the DOE follows through.
There's a teacher at the school I am currently at, who runs around frantically in the morning offering hand sanitizer to kids. It's kinda funny but also a sad statement of affair. It's crises like this which reveal the woeful gaps the DOE has. There aren't enough nurses in schools, or hand sanitizers or other basic things that are necessary. Might be because they spend all that money on consultants and pedagogy "coaches"/failed principals.
ReplyDeleteJust last week, some teachers mentioned how everything is suddenly being cleaned all of a sudden. Like, it takes an epidemic to get schools to do what they should have been doing all this time.
Almost everyone in the NYCPublic School system is PRAYING for the Corona Virus to hit and hit hard. The principals, admins, teachers, students - (all of them would prefer to be in bed sick or quarantined, rather than be in their disgusting warehouse schools) and the custodial staff (that will make loads of overtime). A totally dysfunctional and disgusting school system.
ReplyDeleteNotwithstanding the peculiar (not to mention sensational) reporting, we have had a grand total of 24 Coronavirus deaths since Trump shut off travel from China due to the virus on January 31. 19 of them (mostly elderly and ill) from a small nursing home in Washington State...and 3 others from Washington State.
ReplyDeleteAny chance we can ratchet it down from full panic mode here in NYC?
I believe that things like toilet paper and paper towels come from the custodian. That may be in their contract. I doubt that they would be required to supply sanitizer.
ReplyDeleteHow can a large school building-such as Bryant or Forest Hills be cleaned in one day?
they will never ratchet down the hype!!
ReplyDeleteWE SHOULD NOT HAVE TO GO TO PARENT TEACHER CONFERENCE BECAUSE OF CORONAVIRUS... NO PARENTS! PHONE CALLS,EMAILS, SKYPE, WHATEVER.. NO IN PERSON CONTACT! ALSO SHOULD NOT BE FORCED TO TOUCH SICK NOTES FOR ATTENDANCE AND TEACHERS CHOICE - LYSOL PRODUCTS SHOULD BE REIMBURSED!
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ReplyDeleteTo all the Justin Stark followers:
After being "excessed" from Port Richmond HS in SI, and Edison HS in Queens, the failed NYCDOE Administrator / ATR Supervisor Justin Stark surfaced at Mesivita Yam Hatora in Far Rock as a Social Studies Teacher in Sept 2019.
His biography notes 17 yrs of NYCDOE service.
The bitch couldn't even make the minimum 20 yrs.....wonder if he got a 3020A
Makes me feel like dancing!
1000% agree with statements above. Like seriously omgggg 70-80 year olds with pre existing conditions are dying like that is not common considering the flu would do the same for the elderly.
ReplyDeleteDoes not surprise me for a heartbeat the dems are politicizing this virus to impeach Trump againnnnnnnn. Cheering with Bill Maher in the background that the stock market has taken a hit.
It's 2020 there should be hand sanitzer machines all over schools. Its so frantic ahhhhhhh they should cancel parent teacher conferences, too dangerous lol.