Around the world and across the nation, depending on what “safety experts” make up and what those in charge want to do, from pre-school to post-graduate… when, where, and how to go back to school, or not go back, has become the new ABnormal.
Governor Andrew Cuomo faced backlash from a group of New York City parents who say his plan to keep their children’s schools closed due to an increase in virus cases is arbitrary and adds an increased burden on their lives.
Parents whose children are “lucky enough” to have the option of in-person learning face a host of logistic hurdles such as navigating staggered arrival and dismissal times. A parent with two kids (each required to be dropped off and picked up at different times) can spend hours a day just getting their kids to and from school. The process has become so disruptive, it could start impacting some parent’s ability to work.
The City’s Department of Education announced last Thursday that about 300 public and private schools in Brooklyn and Queens were ordered to close and carry out courses online. The mandate included Catholic schools, which prompted the Archdiocese of New York and Brooklyn to appeal to parents to contact Cuomo to voice their concerns.
These schools say they have followed safety measures to the letter and outbreaks in the surrounding neighborhood should not affect the reality inside their schools’ doors.
Cuomo’s orders involve a two-week closure, but some parents complained that the maps released by his office were unclear on what schools were affected. The paper pointed out there are many homes where siblings travel to schools, which means one child may be forced to stay home while the other continues to go to in-person classes.
The Governor (“Dictator”) of New York also warned religious institutions about coronavirus restrictions and said he is willing to act if they refuse to adhere to the guidelines. Governor Cuomo said large religious gatherings “cannot happen again,” and if these places of worship do not comply, “then we’ll close the institutions down. I am prepared to do that.”
Emily Oster, a Brown University economics professor, said statistics involving 200,000 kids show children are not “super-spreaders.” Researchers studied a two-week span in September and found a 0.13 percent infection rate among students and 0.24 percent infection rate for staffers, the New York Post reported.
“I think it was thought the minute we get people together in schools, there would be these huge outbreaks – and that hasn’t come to pass,’’ Oster told the paper.
Mumbo, Jumbo
Using a different danger zone plan, NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio announced new school closures and mandates in so-called red zones in Brooklyn and Queens. The communities surrounding these areas are considered “orange zones” and are forced to employ remote-only classes and outdoor dining only.
The City has also heard from students who fear risk of infection during their commute to schools, the WSJ reported. Once inside a school building, measures can be taken to assure social distancing is practiced, but the bus ride to the school could risk exposure.
TRENDPOST: What is happening in NYC is happening around the world. Essentially, rules and regulations are being made up by “experts” and school administrators with no hard data or scientific proof to support their decisions.
In all of their reporting, the Presstitutes fail to note that Sweden, when the virus hit hardest in the winter months, did not close down elementary schools. And, as reported by Reuters, “Separate studies by Sweden’s Karolinska Institutet (KI), an independent medical research institute, and the European Network of Ombudspersons for Children and Unicef, showed that Swedish children fared better than children in other countries during the pandemic, both in terms of education and mental health.”
Again, as for the U.S., we have clearly illustrated the stupidity of “those in charge” in fighting the COVID War, as they did with air-raid drills that sent children under their desks in their fight to win the Cold War.
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