“The kids are not getting the full educational experience that they deserve,” one New York City teacher said. “But they are also very aware that we’re still in the middle of a crisis.”
that his administration’s “exploration of anything remote is to target the children who are infected”—and not the hesitant families that Castellano, Tan, and others described. “It is not just to send a signal out that if you don’t want to come to school, don’t come to school,” Adams said.
The general uncertainty has parallels with the earliest days of remote learning, back in the spring of 2020. Castellano said, “At first it was, ‘If they do an assignment, you count them as present.’ Then it became, ‘If you have any interaction with them, then it counts as present.’ Then it became, ‘If you have a conversation with their parent and they say that their child will do the assignments, then it counts as present.
Yet even those who dread remote teaching may accept the need for more of it. “Teaching elementary-school kids remotely does not work,” Sarah Jingleman, an English as a New Language teacher at a school in Queens, told me. She taught from home during the 2020-21 school year owing to pregnancy. “It didn’t work academically, but itdidn’t work emotionally and behaviorally.
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