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JustAnotherGen

(33,785 posts)
Mon Jan 3, 2022, 10:31 PM Jan 2022

Mayor Adams (NYC) Chancellor Banks Deliver Remarks at Concourse Village Elementary School [View all]

https://www1.nyc.gov/office-of-the-mayor/news/001-22/transcript-mayor-adams-chancellor-banks-deliver-remarks-concourse-village-elementary-school#/0

If you look last year – 2020, you witness that the transmission rate was less than one percent inside a school. In a household it was over 15 percent, but it was more than just COVID. Our children were exposed to an environment of crime, of uncertainty, it really traumatized parents that did not have childcare. The remote learning aspect of it was terrible for poorer communities, particularly those children that lived in homeless shelters, or lived – were housing insecure. The food aspect, schools provide primary meals for many students in this city. And then the socialization, we saw an increase in suicide – attempted suicides. We saw children that were exposed to dangerous environments. Schools play a role of safety and stability for our children, and that is why the Chancellor and I, and an entire team of educators across the city, we have been so focused on keeping our schools open and sending that message.


Good - it can't always be about suburban kids in posh communities.

Children in working poor families in NYC - school is a warm meal and adult interaction . . .and access to technology.

Yes - I know mass shootings are a problem in suburban schools . . . but that's a different environment that fosters that behavior. This man KNOWS. He grew up in poverty in NYC.

Folks need to let him get down to business and not nitpick over things he didn't say.
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I am so happy to be posting in the AA group again. sheshe2 Jan 2022 #1
I despise the racist and ant-Dem shit that's being hurled at him. NurseJackie Jan 2022 #2
It is very interesting JustAnotherGen Jan 2022 #4
I'll just throw this out there because it's out there: Tomconroy Jan 2022 #3
Thank you JustAnotherGen Jan 2022 #5
He doesn't just "get" it, he knows it brer cat Jan 2022 #6
Exactly JustAnotherGen Jan 2022 #7
Adams is only the second Black mayor in NYC history. lapucelle Jan 2022 #8
On point JustAnotherGen Jan 2022 #9
The Rise of Eric Adams and Black New York lapucelle Jan 2022 #10
I'll never get enough of this article JustAnotherGen Jan 2022 #11
Has it been posted as an OP yet? lapucelle Jan 2022 #12
I don't think so JustAnotherGen Jan 2022 #13
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