So it's not safe for teachers to meet or eat lunch in the same room but it's okay for students to? 1st day back to @NYCSchools for students, everyone. Also, where are we gonna eat lunch since kids are in the room the whole day? Don't have a teacher's lounge🤦🏻 #returntoschool2020
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
Yesterday I got a letter from my principal saying there was a "potential case" in the school that our school is building collocated with. Got a letter this morning saying there's no case after all. How does one determine a "potential case" in @NYCSchools? #returntoschool2020
One of my colleagues told their students they had to leave the Google Meet because of the fire drill/false alarm (you can't just end the call on Google Meets for everyone like Zoom) leaving the students hanging, and a student proclaimed, "I AM THE TEACHER NOW" #returntoschool2020
I hope I'm wrong about COVID19 spread in schools in-person. But nothing the NYC Dept. of Ed has done gives me faith this reopening plan will keep us safe. @NYCSchools #NotUntilItsSafe #returntoschool2020
The first two weeks back in my school building have been... a lot, to say the least. I'm hoping I have part of this weekend to decompress and journal about the dumpster fire that is the NYC school reopening #returntoschool2020
“It’s extremely frustrating to get tossed around like we don’t matter. A lot of educators are scared [@NYCSchools] are going to keep pushing back [school] every week. It’s not sustainable. It’s just downright disrespectful, all of it.” #returntoschool2020...
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
Went thru SESIS training Wed. on PADs: they wouldn't answer Qs verbally, only thru the chat, and wouldn't answer the question: "how do you adapt IEPs to remote learning by the 21st when we haven't met students/don't even have our schedules yet?" No answer. #returntoschool2020
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...
So nice to meet all my students virtually today thru Google Meets (although the video froze when a student showed their "fluffy" dog)! Felt like I was shouting across my mask to be heard. Parents wanted to hear about the school schedule and I had no answers. #returntoschool2020
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
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
#Red4Ed today at school and on @CNN in solidarity with all school workers opposing unsafe school reopening today and all days. We're fighting for the schools our students deserve. Thank you @MOREcaucusUFT for fighting so damn hard for NYC. #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
A week later this is still what's happening. @NYCSchools are not ready at all to reopen. #NotUntilItsSafe #returntoschool2020 twitter.com/AnnieTangent/status/1303...
Teachers who have been teaching in-person: how has it been? #returntoschool2020
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
