Anyone else see this ?????
We will NOT be going back anytime soon , I just read this on another page and I for the life of me cannot see them fixing everything in 10 days.....Statement and Petition for a Safe and Smart Reopening Plan for NYCDOE Schools
"Dear Sirs,
As the School Leaders and Administrators of Community School District 31, we serve the students and parents of Staten Island. We are a community of school administrators who truly appreciate the leadership of our Executive Superintendent Anthony Lodico, our Superintendent Vincenza Gallassio, her entire team, as well as our BCO's Executive Director Chris Anzalone, and his entire team. Everyone has done their absolute best as they support us as we prepare to safely re-open our school communities.
We are committed to our goal of opening our schools so that our communities can take the next step of returning to normal. We know meeting this goal is of vital importance, however, there are ever present personnel issues, and a multitude of challenges for which our questions remain unanswered. Without this critical information, we cannot properly prepare a safe and thoughtfully planned reopening of schools, which will uphold the highest quality of in person and remote instruction, health and safety protocols, community-based supports, and resources that our communities so desperately need.
Collectively, we feel that we will be unable to safely and effectively open school buildings on September 10th. We continue to hope that answers to our questions will come, however all we are told is "Guidance will be forthcoming." In addition to the multitude of items we typically address at opening, we have a litany of new mandates to contend with and only two days to train all staff members on how to establish a socially-distanced environment, review all health and safety protocols from arrival to dismissal with everything in between. We have not even scratched the instructional surface yet.
At this moment, we do not have essential guidance and insight for the necessary Operational and Instructional protocols and procedures to safely open a school. Specifically items such as those mentioned below have not been addressed in a timely manner:
Programming is not complete, at every school level:
Students opting out of the blended model and choosing the remote model causes program changes daily, affects spacing allocations and creates instructional challenges in general education and special populations settings.
Students are affecting registers by leaving NYC public schools to attend private schools and are moving out of state, again affecting spacing allocations and creating programming and instructional challenges.
Labor Relations:
Hiring restrictions impede staffing. Deaths, retirements, and transfers have left school leaders not being able to hire the very people they need to lead our communities through this safely.
Substitute teacher nominations opening on Monday August 31st, leaves 7 business days between the start of the first day with students. This short window of time does not allow us to effectively and safely train new staff.
Staff accommodations are ongoing and completed determinations have not been made yet or have not been completely related to school leaders.
No clear guidance on teaching/instructional expectations from the Office of Labor Relations.
Health and Safety
Building Response Teams:
Many members of the BRT have medical accommodations and will not be in the building.
BRT members do not want to volunteer for staffing Isolation Rooms. Many have expressed they are not first responders and do not want to be exposed to a potentially dangerous medical situation.
After participating in the BRT training, we have been asked to increase the size of the team to potentially be activated throughout the entire school day. This is not feasible due to:
Lack of available out of classroom staff due to teacher accommodations
Lack of volunteers for the BRT due to associated risks
DOE directive to have multiple points of entry for safety
Staffing multiple entry points is challenging in all schools and has not been addressed.
Traffic flow of students on entry and exit does not necessitate social distancing due to the layouts of some buildings.
Food services protocol for distribution of food to our students
The need to supplement with school staff to assist and distribute in a safe manner
PPE has not been delivered in full to all schools
Items have been inoperable
Many items are in shortage
Office of Pupil Transportation has not issued any guidance at all resulting in:
No planned protocols for safe arrivals and dismissals
Uncertainty of the arrival and pick up times for all students -
Unclear staffing issues across elementary, junior high school and the high school level. Staff needs to be assigned to one bus coming in while other school staff are assisting students into the building.
Unable to anticipate staffing needs of numerous bus drop offs based on busing capacity with social distancing
Training of Staff
UFT members return two days before the students, while DC37 return on the same date and all are expected to:
Be trained in all safety protocols revolving around social distancing and Covid related issues
Create instructional plans based on a completely new model that provides meaningful instruction.
A School Calendar has not been issued to date, causing more confusion
We are urgently appealing to you – we are not prepared to reopen in a safe and conducive manner. We are simply asking for the necessary time to work as school leaders with our school teams, teacher teams, stakeholders and community to plan and prepare.
Just recently, it was articulated by DOE Leadership to school leaders and administrators, that "We are the Department of Education". With this said, please trust us to get our schools in order to ensure a safe and conducive environment by providing us with the necessary time to address all pending criteria as mentioned above. Our communities in which we serve are expecting a healthy social/emotional opening and without the proper time, this becomes questionable. Our children, parents, faculty and staff deserve it.
In unity,
Brian P. Sharkey, PS 42 (31R042)
John Grassadonio
Cliff Bloom, Tottenville HS
Agron Velija, McKee HS
Razzore Dean, PS 53
Joseph Scarmato, Tottenville HS
Beth Albano PS53R
Alan Ihne, PS 30
Gregory Pagliarulo, Tottenville HS
Luke J Timmins, South Richmond HS, P25R
Barbara Bellafatto, PS 36
Dianna DeRose, PS56
John Boyle Totten Intermediate School 34
Erick Varga, Port Richmond High School
Susan Tronolone IS61
Kasandra Lopez-Garcia, 31R044
Angela Chiappone, 31R061
Joseph Bonomi, PS 56
Lenny Santamaria, I.S. 24
Susan Barone, 31R460
Lauren Diez, Susan E. Wagner High School
Lauren Torres, CSIHS
Joseph Napolitano PS30
Cynthia Leonard, PS 44
Matthew Barone, IS 27
Suzanne DiMitri, PS 4
Anthony Cosentino, Public School 21
Lynette Cartagena, PS 19
Cliff Bloom, Tottenville HS
Sharon Fishman, PS 55
Elizabeth Waters
Christine Chavez, PS45
Jennifer Miller, PS 30
Joanne Aguirre, IS 49
Dennis Whitford, Willam A Morris, I. S. 061
Kristine Nuzzela, 31R048
Nicole Vega PS45R
Agron Velija, Ralph McKee H.S.
Allison O'Donnell, PS/IS 48
Deanna Marco, PS 9
Tina Pryce, 312R445
Paul Helfman Central DOE
Adam Goldner, FDR, 20K505
John Grassadonio, Education Administrator
Doreen E. Murphy 31R069
Joe Luisi, PS 58
Adele Rombley Curtis HS
Andrew Cataneo IS51
SIBO
Jo Ann Hotaling, PS8
Philip Ponterio, PS 39
Jodi Personette, IS 24
Paul Martuccio, THE Public School 13
Jose Garcia 40M000
Valerie Panzella, THE PS 13
Danielle Nola, PS 13
Thomas Cork, Susan E. Wagner High School
Michele Ramos, PS16
Nora De Rosa 31R007
Danielle Martinson, IS 75
Erica Padin, PS 20
Elmer Myers, PS 3
Lorena Romero, PS 10
Anning S Prall IS 27
Nicholas Mele, IS 51
Paul Proscia, PS 23
Adrienne Stallone Egbert IS 2
Jennifer Gonzalez-Funes, PS 10
Matthe Genovese, IS 27
Joseph Mennella IS 7
Eric Ritzer Curtis High School R450
Gilleyan Hargrove SI-BCO
Stephanie Bianco, CPSE D 31 715 Ocean Terrace SI NY
Paul Giordano, PS 55
Shelley Greene District 31 Superintendent Officer
Ken Zapata, IS 75
Mark Reinhold
Riana DiPalma, Port Richmond High School
Laura Kump, PS 26R
Stacie Watkins Tottenville high school
Joseph Napolitano PS30
Mark Herrmann, IS 75
Chrissy Vigliotti
Michelle Soldini Castelli, Tottenville HS
Mark Erlenwein, SI Tech
Julianna Tramontana, I.S. 24
Riana DiPalma, Port Richmond High School
Cara DeAngelo, IS63
Joseph Napolitano PS30
Andrew Greenfield, Port Richmond High School
Salvatore Manuele, PS 69
Maria Simpson PS 22
Beth Albano PS53R
Lisa Bonello, PS 9
Joseph Canale, CSI High School
Angela Chiappone, 31R061
Teuta Ulaj D31
Maria Cavallo-Best I.S. 2
Christopher Restivo, Office of Related Svc
Shirlee Solomon 31R008
Ammirato Michael, PS 8
Lauren Fisher, IS 7
Johanna Longardino PS 29
Roseann Harris, D31 EA
Patrick Emery, IS 61
Frank Morano, PS 861
Rose Garcia, PS42
TinaMarie Marra, MAELS IS 63
Aileen Dulski, PS 42
Melissa Garofalo
Jessica Jackson 31R072
Karyn Lind, PS 57
Gary Tames, IS34
Donna Bonanno, PS 60
TinaMarie Marra, MAELS IS 63
Mala Ruzi, I.S. 49
Stacey Rappaport PS 22
Richard Tudda, Staten Island Borough Office
Daniel Singleton, PS 31
Christopher Restivo, Office of Related Svc
Rose Garcia, PS42
Melissa Donath PS 22
Danielle, Balestrino PS69
Jackie Patanio"
And this is D31 not even D75 and I am wondering if anyone has seen D75's list of demands
It's been out a couple of days. I feel it's the reason the Mayor changed the date to September 21st
"Office of Pupil Transportation has not issued any guidance at all resulting in:
No planned protocols for safe arrivals and dismissals
Uncertainty of the arrival and pick up times for all students "
No shit!!! ;D ;D ;D
As many of us have stated before " ITS A SYSTEM SET UP TO FAIL ".
Quote from: Hammer2161 on September 03, 2020, 02:19:40 PM
As many of us have stated before " ITS A SYSTEM SET UP TO FAIL ".
That's if there is a "system" at all
Its a diagrace to the kids as well as the parents!!
Is this what socialism looks like?
Quote from: hideout on September 03, 2020, 04:45:07 PM
Is this what socialism looks like?
who the hell knows...this country is a mess..i dont know what the answer is anymore.. i can tell you the world is laughing at what is going on in the USA
This is an utter disgrace, almost 5 months since they closed the schools and nothing not one damn thing seems to have been done to make this a safer situation for any of us.
Principals faculty and staff including teachers and para's did basically nothing from March 13th till the end of the school year. WHY THE HELL WEREN'T THEY WORKING ON A PLAN OF ACTION DURING THAT TIME. THEN THEY WILL SAY IT WASN'T THEM WHO FAILED THE CHILDREN.
Can someone somewhere in this damn city be it Dumblasio or Carranza grow a pair of balls and except that they fucked up so we can move forward. This our livelihood we are talking about. We need and want to return to work under safe conditions.
Everything we hear and or read just seems to be leading to another reason why they will further delay the start of the school year. ENOUGH IS ENOUGH ALREADY !!!!
They need to force schools to open! Period!