“I did not want my children to be home again. I could not do it again,” one parent said. “It was not good for my family. It was not good for me as a person.”
A teacher takes the temperature of students arriving on the first day of classes at a public school in the Bronx. Photo: Stephanie Keith/Bloomberg via Getty Images Jessica Phillips Lorenz’s fifth-grade daughter is a pediatric-cancer survivor and is immunocompromised. She’s also too young to be vaccinated against COVID-19. So when she walked into a Brooklyn classroom for the first time in 18 months on Monday, Lorenz was naturally concerned for her daughter’s health.
Mayor Bill de Blasio announced earlier this year that public schools would not have a remote option for students come the fall, putting an end to what was originally thought of as a short-term measure to curb the spread of the virus. Instead, most children spent the majority of the past academic year virtually trapped at home, forcing their parents to balance child care and their jobs, often at the same time as they proctored kids’ Zoom school.
David Hong, who teaches English to high-school students in Queens, said initially he was anxious about the risk of catching the virus from teaching in person. “I didn’t really know who was vaccinated or not. The numbers I know are not like 100 percent or even close to 100 percent for teachers. I think it was in the 60s or something, and I’m sure in my school it was similar,” Hong said.
“I set up my classroom, we did all this work welcoming kids back and making them feel warm and fuzzy. And we just got our first case in school today,” Jacobs said on Wednesday. “We quarantined a whole class. Their parents are all getting notified right now. They’re gonna be out of school for ten days and we have to go online and provide asynchronous remote learning for them over those days while we’re in-person teaching all the other kids.
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