They appear exactly as they appeared in the newsletter. The date shown is the day that we wrote about them in the newsletter. The entries, which come from our Documenting America's Path to Recovery newsletter, are sorted by month in reverse chronological order. The following section provides a timeline of New York's reopening activity beginning in April 2020. 7 Officials and candidates diagnosed with or quarantined due to coronavirus.The authoritative record of NPR’s programming is the audio record. This text may not be in its final form and may be updated or revised in the future. NPR transcripts are created on a rush deadline by an NPR contractor. Visit our website terms of use and permissions pages at for further information. MISDARY: Despite recent weeks of the sharpest rises in child cases coinciding with school openings across the country, educators and medical experts are adamant that the healthiest place for children to learn is in the classroom together with their teachers.Ĭopyright © 2021 NPR. You not having a backup plan for it - it's kind of ludicrous. LOPEZ: It's almost like a smack in the face of a parent where it's like, we're smart enough. MISDARY: Which makes the absence of a remote learning option this year a big concern for parents like James Lopez. And we have to follow that very, very carefully, especially amongst the age cohort where vaccines are, in fact, not licensed. El-Mohandes says fears that infections will rise among children are well-founded.ĮL-MOHANDES: There's no question that that is a very realistic possibility. And to be honest, the minute they tell me, hey, you have an option of sending them remote or sending them to school, I might keep them home again. Like, I'm expecting them to have school maybe the first couple weeks of September, and then I'm expecting a dreaded call of, hey, we got a couple of cases here. I hate to be negative, but I'm bracing to have them come back home again. But after the whole family was sick with COVID last winter, he's worried. MISDARY: He wants his kids back in school. LOPEZ: We're winging it right now, so might as well prepare for the worst. MISDARY: This is what James Lopez is packing into school bags for each of his sons - a kindergartner, a fourth-grader and a high school sophomore in Staten Island. JAMES LOPEZ: We're going to have the little bottle of hand sanitizers for each one, a pack of wipes, (laughter), a extra mask, maybe two masks with them just in case. Not being sure that the children actually will be wearing masks correctly is where potential for spread occurs. It's what happens in the school environment, how it is supervised, how the children are monitored. Ayman El-Mohandes calls it robust and comprehensive, but says kids are kids.ĪYMAN EL-MOHANDES: Plans are plans, but implementation is where the rubber hits the road. Pediatrician and public health expert Dr. MISDARY: The New York City Department of Education's reopening plan includes required vaccinations for staff, 3 feet of distance and a strict mask mandate. MONTE: To have faith - having reviewed a lot of high schools in Brooklyn during the summer, visiting summer school sites and seeing the efforts that our school system is already making to ensure a safe, sanitary learning environment, I'd say we're off to a great start. It was the dry run for the upcoming school year, and he tells parents who fear the worst. MISDARY: He inspected summer classes for COVID safety. What is the ethnic and cultural significance of it? And then get those students to talk about what's on their mind and what makes them comfortable or uncomfortable when returning to school. GREGORY MONTE: I've chosen an activity that our school developed about where students' names originate. ROSEMARY MISDARY, BYLINE: American history usually begins with the Enlightenment for Gregory Monte's Brooklyn high school students. NPR's Rosemary Misdary has been speaking to teachers, parents and public health experts, and they've been bracing themselves at a time when infection rates continue to rise among children. The nation's largest district has been mostly remote during the pandemic, but now they're returning to the classroom. Today's the first day back at school for about 1 million New York City kids.
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