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Not much of an explanation in "N.Y.C.’s Schools Shutdown, Explained."

That's a very short article in the NYT this morning. Highlights: 
The mayor’s 10 a.m. news conference [yesterday] was repeatedly pushed back and finally began at 3 p.m. At a separate news conference earlier in the afternoon, Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo shouted at a reporter who asked whether schools would remain open. 
While he was speaking, The Times reported that schools would close on Thursday.... 
Many parents depend on their children being in school for at least part of the week in order to work. Educators and parents had also criticized the city for not improving remote learning even though about 70 percent of children already take online classes full-time. Some students, including those in homeless shelters, have not received iPads or laptops from the city, and teachers have said that some students struggle to log on.

Where's the explanation of the shutdown? I went to that article because it's newer than this NYT article, which I'd already read and which gives the foundation for the questions I hoped to get answered and absolutely did not: 

Virus transmission in city schools had remained very low since classrooms reopened at the end of September, and the spike in cases does not appear to be caused by the opening of school buildings. 

“Our schools have opened and have been remarkably safe,” the schools chancellor Richard A. Carranza said Wednesday. 

Still, the city is choosing to end in-person learning while the state is allowing indoor dining and gyms to remain open at reduced capacity. Nonessential workers are also continuing to use public transportation to commute to offices. That dynamic has infuriated parents run ragged by fluctuating school schedules and has frustrated public health experts who have been pushing for more in-person instruction.... 

Across much of Western Europe, bars, restaurants and theaters are closed while elementary schools at least have remained open.... 

Mr. de Blasio had put school reopening at the center of his push to revive the city, and he has repeatedly said that remote learning is inferior to classroom instruction.... 

The mayor and the teachers’ union, the United Federation of Teachers, have faced intense criticism as the 3 percent closure threshold drew nearer. Mr. de Blasio has said repeatedly that the union had not pressured him to set the threshold....

The new article — the one promising an explanation — doesn't even mention the teachers union! It looks to me as though that 3% positive testing rate was arbitrary, but the union insisted on it and de Blasio bowed. Where's the science?! At least give me some political science. 

Just 2 days ago, the NYT ran an op-ed by a pediatrics professor — which I blogged here — "Schools Should Be the Last Things We Close, Not the First/Why do we keep asking children to bear the brunt of a lockdown?" The professor, Aaron E. Carroll, said: "Almost everything else should be put on pause first. This is what Europe is doing. No one can explain why, once again, the United States is choosing its own path."

No one can or no one will? I said (in that post): "My hypothesis would be that both Europe and the United States are putting the interests of adults first and the difference is which adults — parents or teachers."

Yesterday's drama in NYC strengthens my hypothesis. And I'm so irritated with the NYT avoidance of the subject as it's proffering "N.Y.C.’s Schools Shutdown, Explained." 

I went looking elsewhere for video of Andrew Cuomo yelling at a reporter. I want to read between the lines. What's his problem — coronavirus science or the political power of the teachers union?

That's a very short article in the NYT this morning. Highlights: 
The mayor’s 10 a.m. news conference [yesterday] was repeatedly pushed back and finally began at 3 p.m. At a separate news conference earlier in the afternoon, Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo shouted at a reporter who asked whether schools would remain open. 
While he was speaking, The Times reported that schools would close on Thursday.... 
Many parents depend on their children being in school for at least part of the week in order to work. Educators and parents had also criticized the city for not improving remote learning even though about 70 percent of children already take online classes full-time. Some students, including those in homeless shelters, have not received iPads or laptops from the city, and teachers have said that some students struggle to log on.

Where's the explanation of the shutdown? I went to that article because it's newer than this NYT article, which I'd already read and which gives the foundation for the questions I hoped to get answered and absolutely did not: 

Virus transmission in city schools had remained very low since classrooms reopened at the end of September, and the spike in cases does not appear to be caused by the opening of school buildings. 

“Our schools have opened and have been remarkably safe,” the schools chancellor Richard A. Carranza said Wednesday. 

Still, the city is choosing to end in-person learning while the state is allowing indoor dining and gyms to remain open at reduced capacity. Nonessential workers are also continuing to use public transportation to commute to offices. That dynamic has infuriated parents run ragged by fluctuating school schedules and has frustrated public health experts who have been pushing for more in-person instruction.... 

Across much of Western Europe, bars, restaurants and theaters are closed while elementary schools at least have remained open.... 

Mr. de Blasio had put school reopening at the center of his push to revive the city, and he

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has repeatedly said that remote learning is inferior to classroom instruction.... 

The mayor and the teachers’ union, the United Federation of Teachers, have faced intense criticism as the 3 percent closure threshold drew nearer. Mr. de Blasio has said repeatedly that the union had not pressured him to set the threshold....

The new article — the one promising an explanation — doesn't even mention the teachers union! It looks to me as though that 3% positive testing rate was arbitrary, but the union insisted on it and de Blasio bowed. Where's the science?! At least give me some political science. 

Just 2 days ago, the NYT ran an op-ed by a pediatrics professor — which I blogged here — "Schools Should Be the Last Things We Close, Not the First/Why do we keep asking children to bear the brunt of a lockdown?" The professor, Aaron E. Carroll, said: "Almost everything else should be put on pause first. This is what Europe is doing. No one can explain why, once again, the United States is choosing its own path."

No one can or no one will? I said (in that post): "My hypothesis would be that both Europe and the United States are putting the interests of adults first and the difference is which adults — parents or teachers."

Yesterday's drama in NYC strengthens my hypothesis. And I'm so irritated with the NYT avoidance of the subject as it's proffering "N.Y.C.’s Schools Shutdown, Explained." 

I went looking elsewhere for video of Andrew Cuomo yelling at a reporter. I want to read between the lines. What's his problem — coronavirus science or the political power of the teachers union?



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