Update on Social Distancing Capacity Estimates
On June 11, you received a preliminary social-distancing capacity estimate for your school, along with a set of guiding questions to help you think about how to maximize space in your building to serve students next year. In a subsequent letter from Deputy Chancellor Goldmark on June 17, you were also notified that you would receive room-level data before the end of the school year. Based on rapidly changing health guidance, your feedback, and ongoing dialogue with public health and education leaders across the country, the DOE is updating these capacity estimates. Therefore, you can expect to receive updated estimates, along with room-level data, in the days ahead to support your planning for next year.
For questions, please complete and submit this inquiry form.
I have just enough respect for administration so I won't link to the inquiry form. This will save them from having to see some commenters here going off on them. However, I read the message from DOE here as: "We are making this up as we go along but really don't know what we're going to do for September." As usual, I hope and pray I am wrong and that they have a workable plan but my prediction from last week stands on what we are likely to get in September if the kids return to school buildings:
Let's acknowledge we will get the DOE version of blended learning which means sort of organized chaos in 1,800 different schools that will go in about a million different directions.
WaPo
ReplyDeleteDaily reported coronavirus infections in the U.S. top 50,000 for the first time
California added 9,740 new cases to its official tally — a new daily high for the state — bringing the U.S. total to 52,770 cases reported on Wednesday alone. Texas, Arizona, North Carolina and Georgia also reported records for new cases.
In 45 states, seven-day averages of new infections are higher than they were a week ago, according to a Post analysis. Health officials are nervously eyeing the July Fourth holiday amid the surge. Some beaches, including in South Florida, Texas and Los Angeles, have been closed for the weekend.
What could go wrong? They got this under control at the federal state and local levels. Schools, open them up.
ReplyDeleteWhat happened to the hot weather would kill the virus? Seems like this virus likes the hot weather and hot states.
ReplyDeleteTo the general public we are the only remaining workers who or demanding to be able to stay home while still receiving full salaries. Everyone with school-age children knows that the remote learning was a farce. No matter how hard you think you worked since March it was still nothing compared with getting your ass out of bed traveling across the city and confronting 150 kids a day face to face
ReplyDeleteAlso schools are one of the hardest places to social distance safely. That's why also Broadway theaters aren't opening until January. There is no way to socially distance at theaters either unless you take in one quarter of the audience at a time. Can we do that with schools?
ReplyDeleteThat is exactly what they are attempting to do with these different cohorts going on different days.
ReplyDeleteAs a teacher who is retiring in the near future, I want stay at home learning. I faked it big time and loved not commuting.
ReplyDeleteBut, the doe can definitely have a plan and should have one.
Why not have kids go to school in 2 hour blocks? Then, they go home.
Something can be done where each grade goes in a different day. I don’t know. Call it common sense. Oh, wait, it’s the doe.
@Jeff faked it big time.
DeleteWhat were their original capacity guidelines? What science is the change based on? Is Carranza's stance that until 108000 epidemiologists tell him otherwise, it's safe to pack us in classrooms? Wtf?
ReplyDelete@7:17 am:
DeleteThey don't know.
Junk science.
Yes.
No one cares about educators.
I hope the DOE is also taking into count students that:
ReplyDeleteNew arrivals to the state & country
Safety, medical, travel transfers
Homeless students (who just moved to the district), etc. Nah, what am I saying. They have it all under control and figured out. It's the NYC DOE for goodness sake.
* NYC SCHOOLS PLAN SEPT. REOPENING WITH SOCIAL DISTANCING: MAYOR
ReplyDeleteWow, James, this is a first. 11 comments already and we still haven't heard from the racist who wants to tell us that we should be more afraid of Black people than of COVID.
ReplyDeleteEek. No concern for the cattle I mean educators. No surprise.
ReplyDeleteThese idiots think that if business needs it they can drop a ball and it will float. Murderers.
ReplyDeleteLook up A - 10595 NY Assembly Bill its about an early retirement incentive.. You Have to have 25 years of service and you have to be at least Age 50. It will give you up to 3 yrs service depending on you time in Google and read it.
ReplyDeleteYou’re going to need to be at least 56 to get three years of pension credit. And that assumes you
ReplyDeleteStarted teaching at age 20