r/nyc - I Am a New York City Public High School Student. The Situation is Beyond Control.
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today there were 14 absent teachers 1st period

Second period I had another absent teacher. More of the same from 1st period. It was around this time that 25% of kids, including myself, realized that there were no rules being enforced outside of attendance at the start of the period, and that cutting lass was ridiculously easy. We left...

90% of the bathrooms were full of students swabbing their noses and taking their tests. I had one kid ask me -- with his mask down, by the way -- whether a "faint line was positive," proceeding to show me his positive COVID test.

I should note that in study hall and with subs we literally learn nothing. I spent about 3 hours sitting around today doing nothing.

By January the 3rd (when we returned from break) the numbers were up to 100 (as listed on the school Google Sheet). Today there are 226. This is around 10% of my school.

90% of the conversations spoken by students concern COVID.

One teacher flat out left his class 5 mins into the lesson and didn't return because he was developing symptoms

NYC views itself as progressive but honestly it treats most of its teachers like shit. It's unbelievable how inadequate and ramshackle the education system is in poor/working class areas, while a fifteen minute subway ride away sit some of the most prestigious universities in the world... I feel like an entire mini-generation is being permanently damaged by having their childhood stolen away from them capitalists whose fortunes depend on greasing the wheels of the financial system with the blood of the poor, and I only hope that some of the traumatized Zoomers realize who is really to blame for their mental impoverishment.

  • KurtVonnegut [comrade/them]
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    3 years ago

    Bonus collapse content from another post:

    6/31 students in my home room are at home with positive cases. The district dashboard says we have zero cases. This is because we only report cases if we can conclusively prove that a case was contracted in the building. Only a registered school nurse can make this determination. We have no nurse.

    There are actually two layers of catch 22. Even if we had a nurse, they could only establish in school transmission through reported close contacts. Supervised spaces like classrooms, cafeteria, and gym are considered inherently safe because of the presence of adults. From a staff email: “Please do not report close contacts that occur in supervised spaces. Close contacts are limited to incidents involving <3 foot unmasked proximity for >15 minutes among students that are not supervised. Unless the incident meets all of the above criteria, there is not need to report it.”

    • LeninsRage [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      This is because we only report cases if we can conclusively prove that a case was contracted in the building.

      Literally shit anti-communists would say China is doing right now

    • Tervell [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      6/31 students in my home room are at home with positive cases. The district dashboard says we have zero cases

      B-but in bad country they're faking their numbers! That would never happen in a free country!

    • Frank [he/him, he/him]
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      3 years ago

      This is because we only report cases if we can conclusively prove that a case was contracted in the building. Only a registered school nurse can make this determination. We have no nurse.

      Catch-22. It's the best catch there is.