New York Mayor Bill de Blasio announced Monday that high school students will return to personal education on March 22, which will provide an important step forward in the process of returning to normal from the coronavirus pandemic.
The struggle to personally arrange school attendance has been at the heart of de Blasio’s policies, even though the threat to teenagers as distributors is a problem.
The mayor remains optimistic that the city can handle the initial yield, which will provide a mix of strategies. About half of the city’s 488 high schools offer full-time education for most or all of their personal students, while the other half will use hybrid education, reports the New York Times.
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“We have all the pieces we need to bring high school back and bring it back strong, and of course bring it back safely,” de Blasio said at a news conference. “We are bringing our schools back fully in September, period.”
The decision is likely based on the recent decline and plateau of new business in the United States, and specifically in New York: From the peak of about 14,000 new daily business on January 11, the city has about 7,200 new business on March 7. registered.
Only students who enrolled for personal classes in the fall can report to the classrooms, which totals about 55,000 of the 282,000 high school students across the city, according to Reuters.
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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has recently kept pace with the message that younger students can return safely – with safety measures in place – without teachers having to receive vaccinations – but high schools are more problematic.
Vaccinations have so far been approved for people 16 years or older, meaning high school populations may be vulnerable to infection.
These concerns have led to heated debate over the past month, with some officials blaming teachers’ unions for resisting personal returns for any grade level despite CDC leadership.
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Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot has spent weeks in talks with the local teachers’ union to agree on a plan for the pre-K to 8th grade to return.
Trade union president Jesse Sharkey said the plan “is not what one of us deserves. Not us. Not our students. Not their families.”
Lightfoot describes the Chicago Teacher’s Union as ‘similar to a political party’.
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New York City offers the largest school system in the United States, with 1.1 million students.