From Pew Research:
Dear __________,
Tomorrow marks the first day back inside your school building for many of you. We understand this transition may be challenging and have been working ahead of your return to ensure your safety. Still, we are counting on you to be the eyes and ears of the building and to alert us immediately if you see any issues upon your return.
We have already reached out to your chapter leaders, and your COVID-19 building response team will be making sure the processes and procedures are in place for safety protocols, personal protective equipment and other COVID-related concerns. The building response team consists of members of your school staff who take on the following roles: BRT leader, special needs coordinator, emergency officer, assembly point coordinator, recorder, school nurse, custodian and school safety agent(s).
In addition to this school-based building response team, the UFT has sent health and safety liaisons to check that the PPE and safety protocols we established in September remain in place at your building.
Middle schools will be observing the more stringent in-school testing regimen that the city agreed to adopt in December when elementary and District 75 schools reopened:
●Mandatory weekly testing: Twenty percent of all in-person students and staff in all open school buildings will be randomly tested on a weekly basis.
●Student consent: No student will be allowed to stay in school for in-person learning without a testing consent form signed by their parent or guardian. Principals have been instructed to conduct a testing consent form review by the end of the workday on Feb. 24.
Answers to many questions on building safety can be found on our Safety FAQ, which is updated regularly to reflect the latest information.
Please alert your chapter leader and call our special safety hotline at 212-331-6317 to report unsafe conditions or protocols that are not working correctly at your school.
Your devotion to your students and your flexibility this school year are unmatched, and you deserve to feel safe in your workplace. Working together, we will make sure our school communities remain safe.
Sincerely,
Michael Mulgrew
UFT President
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Why shouldn't teachers go back?
Michael says we are safe and that is our savior.
(Reuters) - A new coronavirus variant that shares some similarities with a more transmissible and intractable variant discovered in South Africa is on the rise in New York City, researchers said on Wednesday.
The new variant, known as B.1.526, was first identified in samples collected in New York in November, and by mid-February represented about 12% of cases, researchers at Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons, said on Wednesday.
Why should I make the trip if there are no students and I'm talking into a computer?
Going back to "teach" seven kids total for the day while my online kids have to do a posted assignment. Or do I have to record my lesson and do more work? Going back makes no sense at this stage. The year's a wash.
955 and 1016, many of us have been showing up to teach to out remote classes. It's called D75. It's horrible. They make you have an up to date bulletin board for your remote class. Just wait. All of the MS and HS teachers don't know how good you had it...
It seems every group favors keeping buildings closed for now. Except Repubs. Why though? What is this divide? Is it natural or fostered?
How many students actually stepped into a building today?
It’s the white , upper middle, wealthy who happen to be mostly republicans. These shitheads think we are enslaved babysitters to them , they look down on us, zero respect. They think we have it so good. They are jealous of summers off, etc. They can afford to have babysitters or stay home and watch their own kids but they are entitled assholes who don’t want to do either.
I have a question. How do you update a bulletin board if your class is remote? You do not have any student work to display.I just to know.
12:54 I'm a died in the wool conservative Republican Trump supporter, and I believe schools should be closed until all staff are vaccinated. I have friends with like views who believe the same. We are all mask wearers and believe in the protection of it. I believe schools are big petrie dishes at this current time. However, it's funny how things are opening up quickly now that there is a new administration in place. You just can't generalize. Also, the demographics in the Republican party base have changed and are continuing to change, and across ethnic lines too. There is a large working class who supported Trump in 2016 and 2020. I'm sure the 15,000 people on the Keystone XL Pipeline who just got their pink slips are not fans of this new president to say the very least.
Our official final numbers:
Grade 6=137
Grade 7=114
Grade 8= 129
It was awesome being back. Kids were happy. Teachers were happy. Besides the masks, it felt like normal. Starting a novel next week! Kids are in rows, which is better for learning anyway.
3:35
You sound like a very sensible person. I wish all Trump supporters were like you.
When I hear Trump Supporter I think of the lawless group of terrorists that invaded the Capitol building.
We all need to meet in the middle. Stay safe !
12:54 Anonymous Anonymous said...
"I'm a died in the wool conservative Republican Trump supporter . . ."
I can't tell if you intended the pun or if you simply made the common spelling mistake here (died instead of dyed), but it works as a double pun and it gave me a good laugh.
Dyed in the Wool
When wool is dyed before being spun into thread (as opposed to after it is spun or woven into fabric), the color is profound and likely to last a very long time. From this we can infer the metaphorical meaning of the idiom dyed in the wool, which means profoundly, deeply ingrained, or to an extreme degree. It’s usually used in describing a person’s political, cultural, or religious beliefs or to emphasize their commitment to something.
As a conservative and a republican you know that Trump is not a conservative, not a republican, and not dyed in the wool in any sense that gives the expression meaning.
Confronted with the most tragic and deadly health crisis to face America and the world in an hundred years, Conservatives shamelessly tried to use the crisis to lower taxes. Trump, who claimed to have already cut taxes more bigly than Reagan, though this was like most of Trump's lies, mathematically, factually, and politically impossible, proposed a cut to the capital gains tax and a tax credit for corporate entertainments and meals, then, in a desperate reversal to paper over his pandering to billionaires like himself, he floated a payroll deferral to appease the populists who were losing faith, not to mention their jobs, their loved ones and their lives. The so-called Republican party is a party in search of a reason to exist since most of the people elected to the other party and most of the people who vote for the other party are conservatives, if not dyed in the wool conservatives, whatever that means these days. The republicans, with little left to call a platform, are trying to revive what died by attacking the progressives, but the progressives were just trounced by the conservatives who call themselves democrats.
To support Trump, a man who has no discernable policy or politics, about anything, a man who has nothing that is dyed in the wool, and to be a republican and conservative, a supporter of the party that died and let Trump bury it, this must be painful. Your man left WH in disgrace, having lost the election, and the house and senate to the democrats, though I guess you may take some solace in the fact that the democrats are also conservatives.
To the pun. The conservative party that could claim wool dyed deep died. Trump gave it its last rites when he cut taxes and ran up the deficits, waged war on free trade and the economic libertarians, cut the wings of the foreign policy hawks, then lost the white house and the congress.
Cutting spending, balanced budgets, free trade, deregulation, the rule of law, American exceptionalism ... these were the heart of dyed in the wool conservative republicans. Trump is another matter. The two don't make strange bedfellows but a kind of necrophilia, a love of the dead, what has died. Their love song Nostalgia is the tune of fascists who want to return to golden ages and make things golden again, or white again. As you note, Trump has broadened his base, lobbing off chunks of the old labor democrats and Latinos who share his "family values" (translated this means Macho and misogyny), but Trump is not going to be able to do identity politics, the reality TV of the progressives. Well, I guess he can still attack the over educate elites and teachers ;-)
1:37, It's the art of performance. Just impress the man from downtown... Bulletin boards in a D75 HS is insulting to the students. How about some academic privacy. Would you want your work and grades up on the wall? D75 students still are teens, they aren't stupid and they have feelings.
I'm sure carranza and mulgrew appreciate you putting your life on the line. Now ask them where spring break pay is.
Another book recommendation. I meant to post this when James pointed me to his attempt to get the UFT to support the workers when they struck.
In Transit: Transport Workers Union In Nyc 1933-66
by Joshua Freeman
Temple University Press, 2001
eISBN: 978-1-59213-815-9 | Paper: 978-1-56639-922-7
Library of Congress Classification HD6515.T7F74 2001
Dewey Decimal Classification 331.890413880975
ABOUT THIS BOOK
This history of New York transit workers from the Great Depression to the monumental 1966 transit strike shows how, through collective action, the men and women who operated the world's largest transit system brought about a virtual revolution in their daily lives. Joshua Freeman's detailed descriptions of both transit work and transit workers, and his full account of the formation and development of the Transport Workers Union provide new insight into the nature of modern industrial unionism. Freeman pays particular attention to the role of Communists and veterans of the Irish Republican Army—including TWU president Michael J. Quill—in organizing and leading the union, as well as to the Catholic labor activists who were the principal union dissidents. Freeman also explores the intense political struggles over the New York transit system. He links the TWU's pioneering role in public sector unionism to worker militancy and the union's deep involvement in New York politics. His portrait of Fiorello La Guardia's determined opposition to the TWU belies La Guardia's pro-labor reputation. By combining social and political history with the study of collective bargaining, In Transit makes a major contribution to the history of American labor, radicalism, and urban politics. Now with a new epilogue that frames the history of the union in the context of labor’s revival and recent changes in TWU’s leadership, In Transit is an intimate portrait of the politics of mass transit and public sector unionism, and one of the most detailed reconstructions to date of the social processes of industrial unionism. This book will appeal to anyone interested in New York City's subways, politics, history, and labor.
https://www.bibliovault.org/BV.book.epl?ISBN=9781566399227
And Biden said he was a moderate. That was clearly a lie.
Biden-airstrike in Syria. Here we go.
@6:18 He meant to say that he was a moderate liar.
He claimed that Trump was an extreme liar.
Words matter, unless you are a Democrat.
If you want to understand the authoritarian fascism and of the Democrats, watch this interview of Glenn Greenwald:
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2021/02/25/glenn_greenwald_on_tanden_why_would_you_let_subject_to_corporate_interests_run_the_budget.html
Josh Freeman is the professor who wrote Working Class NY. It is a book I refer to often. You should consider joining John Lawhead's book reading group.
They are discussing The Teacher Rebellion by David Selden.
It doesn't seem to matter that 99.5% of people who ever get coronavirus recover. That doesn't seem to register with NYC's
" brightest".
NYC teachers will go down in history as the megga cowards of society. That is if they actually believe their own bullshit. I suspect at least half dont and are just lazy with no work ethic.
They are at best indifferent to their students and at worst hold them in contempt.
Over 500,000 Americans have died in this pandemic. No more, please.
10:12: You wouldn't be saying that if that .5% was one of your loved ones. I lost a cousin to Covid. Also you can't believe percentages. Do you think all schools have a valid graduation percentage.
TO 12PM Cowards? Recovery-What about the long term effects???? Not everything is about death.
What are the percentages of the long haulers? Teachers should not have to risk the chance of getting something that can affect them long ter,. Remember- Karma 12pm.
https://health.ucdavis.edu/coronavirus/covid-19-information/covid-19-long-haulers.html
335. you think all Trump supporters are violent because you watch fake news. I'd rather see crazies loot the Capitol than loot neighborhoods where people live and work like what happened by leftists all summer long. Republicans don't have to call for open schools anymore because the democrats are doing it for them. Those NYC wealthy sophisticates that look down on teachers voted for Biden. I can make this assumption because in 2018 the NYT produced a detailed map of the 2016 election and priviliged NYC neighborhoods were blue not red. Biden wants schools open. Cuomo, Deblasio. They all agree with Trump.
10:12 PM You are painting with a very broad brush. I suspect that the percentage of lazy teachers is similar to the percentage of lazy people in any other profession because teachers are humans like everyone else. Are you a parent of a public school student? It sounds like you hold your child's teachers in contempt.
I’ll never tell anyone how they should or shouldn’t feel, but I am happy to be back in the building.
There are few kids and the ones showing up WANT TO LEARN!!!!!!
doing this as long as I have been at it, that rarely happens.
I am glad to be back in a building, but can understand why people are apprehensive.
If my principal were bad and I have worked for bad ones, I would feel differently.
6:59 Just a continuation of the last Pres and the one before and the one before and.. ya get it
7:51 He's a moderate conservative.
8:14 or just read the history of the US and you'll get an understanding of the authoritarianism of the whole country.
10:12 half a million dead in our country. and tens of thousands with lingering symptoms and effects. what is so bright about submitting to that?
"Sweet and Dandy, Sweet and Dandy, Sweet and Dandy, Sweet and Dandy, Sweet and Dandy,
Sweet and Dandy....."
Toots and the Maytals
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