This whole thread is very interesting and illuminating.
#NotUntilItsSafe @thereadingzone
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I have to teach today and watch six students eat unmasked in our classroom today. Schools in the zip code next door to ours closed today for an indefinite period of time due to rising coronavirus case rates. Hard to NOT think we're sitting ducks. #makeitmakesense #notuntilitssafe...
Just told even tho I'm part-time remote, I'll likely have to report to school daily to be emergency coverage in case in-person teachers are absent cuz there's no sub coverage across @NYCSchools; then my students won't have me as their remote teacher that day 🤦🏻 #NotUntilItsSafe
And now we'll have students without reliable devices YET AGAIN FOR WEEKS because @NYCSchools didn't care to plan this out. We're over a week into remote learning now, most of our students' time will be spent remotely, and this!!! 🤦🏻🤦🏻🤦🏻 #returntoschool2020 #notuntilitssafe
South Brooklyn: rise in cases in Borough Park, Midwood & Bensonhurst: "The Ocean Parkway Cluster” rapid increases in rates over last 3 weeks. "That cluster represents 20% of all new COVID-19 citywide in the past week." #NotUntilItsSafe...
On the gratitude train: thanks to a @MOREcaucusUFT member my employee verification confirmed that, as of last week Tuesday 9/8 I have tenure!!! Due process rights in @NYCSchools is all the more sweet esp in these times where we gotta speak up and fight back. #notuntilitssafe
Chicago Teachers Union would never EVER let Chicago Public Schools pull the crap that @UFT has enabled @NYCSchools @NYCMayor to do for months. Truly shameful. We need an organizing fighting bottom-up rank-and-file union NOW (@MOREcaucusUFT!) #NotUntilItsSafe #returntoschool2020
I honestly feel so similarly right now about @NYCMayor @NYCSchools @DOEChancellor #returntoschool2020 #NotUntilItsSafe https://https://t.co/xr2dYTq72p
It is so damn hard to work for the NYCDOE which keeps changing things by the hour. I had to find out over Twitter school is delayed again to the 29th. I'm so tired. #returntoschool2020 #NotUntilItsSafe
Among all the other @NYCSchools reopening issues we got, staffing and supplies remain: here's me on @PIX11News tonight! #notuntilitssafe #returntoschool2020 www.pix11.com/news/back-to-school/staf...
I'm about to meet my students for the first time over Google Meet, hoping my school WiFi can handle all of us on video and talking together, wearing my mask the whole time, in my classroom, and it's sinking in this is our #returntoschool2020. #notuntilitssafe
Someone just messaged me their school's on this list of schools w/ cases, which they didn't know (!!!), a list published after staff have been in buildings for SIX DAYS w/o students. WHY ARE WE DOING THIS?! #NotUntilItsSafe #returntoschool2020 @Jill_Jorgensen @theeAngryBirder
What we do this week, @NYCSchools educators and staff, may be the most important things we ever do in our profession. I was hoping I'd be wrong, but it's clear we are not ready to reopen schools Monday. We must go fully remote and avert this pending catastrophe. #NotUntilItsSafe
When we finally go fully remote I'm gonna sleep and rest so much
But WAIT I'LL BE LAST MINUTE PREPARING FOR REMOTE TEACHING AND BE EXHAUSTED AGAIN
There's no winning
Except that we'll be alive and safe(r)
#NotUntilItsSafe #returntoschool2020
If we're not preempted, @rosyclark and I are gonna be on @CNN LIVE with Brooke Baldwin around 3:40pm talking about the unsafe NYC school reopening plan and why we have to stop it! #notuntilitssafe #returntoschool2020
We @NYCSchools staff have no idea what or how we're teaching. Many of my colleagues across the city have no idea WHO they're teaching. Don't have enough staff. Less than a week til we #returntoschool2020 w/ students.
55 staff members are positive for #Covid_19.
#NotUntilItsSafe
About to head to bed but: cooking, board games, lots of rest, video chats, and talking with @MOREcaucusUFT educators who are fighting against an unsafe school reopening this weekend soothe the soul. One week to make @NYCSchools go fully remote. #NotUntilItsSafe #wewontdieforDOE
A week later this is still what's happening. @NYCSchools are not ready at all to reopen. #NotUntilItsSafe #returntoschool2020 twitter.com/AnnieTangent/status/1303...
I haven't been offered PPE at school in 4 days. Found out we only have 175 adult masks which would last 2 days. @UFT hotline has been called: we have a ticket number, told PPE is backordered; meanwhile we're coming into @NYCSchools every day. #notuntilitssafe #returntoschool2020
Our schools staff reported to the building today and sat on a 3-hour Zoom meeting from our classrooms. We had to stop streaming our videos because the bandwidth of our school WiFi couldn't support it.
There are so many issues with this. #NotUntilItsSafe #returntoschool2020
I wrote most of this on my train ride to school this morning w/ @MOREcaucusUFT: "3 Days Into NYC School Reopening And It's Clear: Schools Are Not Safe" #NotUntilItsSafe #returntoschool2020...
I got tenure yesterday & now can more publicly say I've been organizing with my @UFT teachers union caucus @MOREcaucusUFT for the past 4 years. SO proud of all our work to build schools our students deserve, ESPECIALLY since the pandemic hit. #NotUntilItsSafe #returntoschool2020
@nycschools kids in-person are going to be learning 2/3rds of the time remotely: have NO IDEA if they have to return their old devices and WHO will provide the new ones. We're two weeks out and still don't know. Logistics are a hot mess, @UFT. #NotUntilItsSafe #returntoschool2020
This @NYCSchools reopening is a hot mess. A guardian asked today about returning the iPad and the start of school and the schedule and I had nothing for them and I guarantee their new school doesn't have anything either. Not safe or sound. #NotUntilItsSafe #returntoschool2020
Custodial engineer heard air in my former windowless classroom: "I can hear the air flowing!" & checked off something on his list. Is that scientific or measuring air changes, esp. since that room will now be used as an office for other staff? #NotUntilItsSafe #returntoschool2020
My school needs 28 more staff members to make blended/remote @NYCSchools models work. TWENTY-EIGHT MORE IN TWO WEEKS. It's not logistically or money-wise possible to do their in-person model & would be fixed IMMEDIATELY if we went full remote. #NotUntilItsSafe #returntoschool2020
Didn't bring my books cuz I dunno if kids will touch/read physical books this school year in-person. Everything will live in the Google Classroom it seems. Don't know a safe and effective way to teach special education students from 6 ft away. #NotUntilItsSafe #returntoschool2020
Spent the day mostly in my windowless classroom from last year (ventilation issues much?), throwing away student work from b4 schools closed March, packing away their stuff, & moving the rest to my new window-full classroom. I am exhausted. #returntoschool2020 #NotUntilItsSafe