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
On the @UFT super-safe 50-pt @NYCSchools checklist: Is plexiglass installed in the main office? "Yes." Check it out yourself: a three-foot plexiglass installed in an office that's at least 10 feet wide. 🤦🏻♀️ This isn't a joke. #onlywhenitssafe #returntoschool2020 #wewontdieforDOE
@NYCSchools staff like me are terrified. The rage comes from knowing this schools reopening didn't have to be like this if @NYCMayor @DOEChancellor @UFT put our safety 1st all along. We had months to make a workable plan. There's no plan; now there's no trust. #wewontdieforDOE
Truly no words to tell how furious, ashamed, angry I am at @NYCMayor @DOEChancellor @NYCSchools @UFT @FollowCSA @DistCouncil37 for not protecting NYC. On the City Council @MarkTreyger718 hearing doctors said THERE WILL BE A 2ND WAVE IF YOU OPEN SCHOOLS. LISTEN!! #wewontdieforDOE
We STILL don't have a clear idea how a @NYCSchools plan that hasn't been figured out in the past 2 months (or 2 weeks for that matter) will be figured out in another two weeks. We have no money. We don't have the staff to do their convoluted plans. It's NOT SAFE. #wewontdieforDOE
Still haven't gotten our school building inspection report even tho @UFT Prez Mulgrew promised we'd have it today. People are saying it might not come til Saturday. We're supposed to go in-person Tuesday. @UFTUnity what you agreed to is not okay. #OnlyWhenItsSafe #wewontdieforDOE
Truly no words on how furious I am at my union @UFT. Educators are forced back into schools buildings 9/8, a few days after UFT said it was unsafe to go back, then after striking a backroom deal w/ @NYCMayor. @UFTUnity shame on you. People will die on your watch. #wewontdieforDOE
Chinese language press on why educators like me don't feel it's safe or ready to reopen schools, even with a delayed reopening on the 21st! #OnlyWhenItsSafe #wewontdieforDOE twitter.com/AnnieTangent/status/1301...
I put up a window decal on the wall of my windowless classroom last year. Bought an air purifier, the only thing to get rid of the disgusting smell in my room. We're telling you schools are unsafe cuz we're in em, 5 days/week for 10 months. #OnlyWhenItsSafe #wewontdiefordoe @uft
This is the final full week before @NYCschools are set to reopen Sept. 10th. We got ten days to stop this unsafe reopening plan. We're not stopping @DOEChancellor @NYCMayor #OnlyWhenItsSafe #wewontdieforDOE
Thank you @ForOurBabies76 @MerilMousoom @TeensTakeCharge @integratenyc @coconut_bambino so many more fighting like hell to stop a NYC unsafe school reopening. I know I am missing so many more this Saturday night, and am so thankful for y'all. #OnlyWhenItsSafe #wewontdieforDOE
My summer goals started pretty well, then devolved into the second to last one REAL quick. Still not done w/ that goal tho @NYCMayor @DOEChancellor @NYCSchools @UFT. We won't stop til we get it.
#wewontdieforDOE #OnlyWhenItsSafe #FundEducation #TaxTheRich Can't believe it's 8/27...
“Why isn’t the gov't, particularly here in NYC, helping the schools, funding the schools properly, so that the schools can be a safe place where their kids can go?"
"Someone failed them.”
#OnlyWhenItsSafe #FundEducation #wewontdieforDOE #DemandSafeSchools...
I'm a @NYCschools teacher ready to strike @UFT to fight for safety & against ed cuts for students, educators, families, ALL New Yorkers. Willing to work remotely/safely, NOT put our bodies into unsafe defunded schools conditions. #OnlyWhenItsSafe #wewontdieforDOE 📸: Josh Pacheco
About time @UFT. "New York City’s teachers union is starting to gauge support among members for a strike over school reopening plans." #RefuseToReturn #demandsafeschools #OnlyWhenItsSafe #wewontdieforDOE...
40 Woodruff, sorry! We're at @DOEChancellor's house and ending momentarily, but we won't stop to end this unsafe @NYCSchools reopening plan! #OnlyWhenItsSafe #demandsafeschools #wewontdieforDOE twitter.com/AnnieTangent/status/1296...
On @NBCNightlyNews briefly tonight: teachers should not be funding an underfunded education system as is, esp. for an unsafe school reopening. Teachers are having to reckon- are we going to go back & risk our lives? We can't teach in body bags. #OnlyWhenItsSafe #WeWontDieForDOE
We won't die for the NYC Department of Education. Thx stoop.stories on IG: can't wait to share our interview! Fitting to film at my childhood elementary school P.S. 42, where, as a student, my dream of being a teacher started. #WeWontDieforDOE #DemandSafeSchools #OnlyWhenItsSafe
Can you tell we're tired?
Of the lack of information?
Of the lack of transparency from @NYCMayor @NYCSchools @NYGovCuomo @UFT?
Of being told we're part of an experiment to risk our lives?
Of being told we should martyr ourselves?
For what?
#OnlyWhenItsSafe
#WeWontDieforDOE
Why do educators have to fight for our safety
Why do principals have to fight for our safety
Why do students have to fight for our safety
Why do families have to fight for our safety
Why can't we just be safe
@NYCMayor @NYGovCuomo
We keep us safe
#OnlyWhenItsSafe
#WeWontDieforDOE
Getting emotional that we have to march today to fight for educators' & students' lives in front of @UFT @NYCSchools #DemandSafeSchools. CU on the streets at 52 Broadway & 52 Chambers 5pm. #RefusetoReturn #WeWontDieforDOE #OnlyWhenItsSafe #SchoolsOurStudentsDeserve #UnionStrong
