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Does the Hybrid School Re-Opening Need a “Pre-Season”? | Ed In The Apple

Does the Hybrid School Re-Opening Need a “Pre-Season”? | Ed In The Apple

Does the Hybrid School Re-Opening Need a “Pre-Season”?



Mayor League baseball players gather a month before the first game for spring training, the NFL players have been practicing for a few weeks before the early September first game.
In spite of mounting pressure from the unions representing teachers, principals and other school workers the mayor and the school chancellor refuse to move to a phased, aka, delayed, school opening in order to assure safety protocols are in place.
Other large cities, Los Angeles, Chicago, Houston, Miami and others are beginning with a fully remote opening.
In New York State the Big Five have delayed reopening; Yonkers will be fully remote until early October, Buffalo is battling with teachers over the re-opening plan, Rochester is beginning remote with a phased re-opening  and Syracuse will begin with a hybrid model for elementary/middle schools and fully remote for high schools.
The hundreds and hundreds of smaller districts have a vast array of models. Read the Westchester/Rockland plans here.
New York City is struggling to create blended aka hybrid models and have ignored the phased re-opening pathway: begin remote and move slowly, step by CONTINUE READING: Does the Hybrid School Re-Opening Need a “Pre-Season”? | Ed In The Apple