Carranzavirus: Sue Edelman, NY Post: DOE, DeB Blood on their hands - Where was UFT?
One after another, sick Brooklyn Technical High School teachers called union chapter leader Nate Bonheimer last week, to tell him they’d tested positive for COVID-19. By Friday, five of them had shared the devastating news. But after being notified about each one, the city Department of Education still ordered the 6,000-student school’s 350 staffers to show up for work last week, saying the building had been cleaned... NY Post, ‘Blood on their hands:’ Teachers say de Blasio and Carranza helped spread coronavirusHow far did the virus spread due to de Blasio and Caranza?
March 21, 2020 |https://nypost.com/2020/03/21/blood-on-their-hands-teachers- say-de-blasio-and-carranza- helped-spread-coronavirus/
I'm very proud of Nate Bonheimer who last year took on the massive task of chapter leadership of the largest school in the city. Nate has put himself on the line publicly when it should have been the UFT doing this and protecting Nate from reprisals.
In fact Nate approached me at the March 11 UFT Del Ass and hinted at what was going on and asked me to put him in touch with Sue Edelman of the NY Post who has become the go-to reporter for teachers who have a story. In some ways Sue has replaced the UFT leadership which seems to go along with the code of silence.
“The DOE did not close the school for any of the cases,” said Bonheimer, who worries that inaction exposed others to the dreaded infection.
The city failed to follow a March 9 directive by the state Education Department that “requires an initial 24-hour closure, in order to begin an investigation to determine the contacts that the individual may have had within the school environment.”
DOE did not attempt to identify close contacts, Bonheimer said. “They did not alert the people who needed to CONTINUE READING: Ed Notes Online: Carranzavirus: Sue Edelman, NY Post: DOE, DeB Blood on their hands - Where was UFT?