ABOUT DE BLASIO AND SCHOOLS

Well, they did it. Mayor Bill de Blasio and his schools Chancellor Richard Carranza have finally confirmed an absurd plan to have school restart on a part-time schedule in the fall. What will parents who still have to work full time do? Who cares! What will teachers who have school-age children do? That’s their problem. The new “Let them eat cake” is “Hire a nanny.”

The mayor treated this announcement as some sort of reflection of what parents wanted. “75% of families want to send their kids back to school in the fall,” he tweeted. The survey sent to parents had three options and none of them was “Reopen schools full-time.” The mayor had to know a majority of parents would have picked that.

Because everything to Hizzoner is about President Donald Trump, de Blasio added, “What we WON’T do is ignore the science and recklessly charge ahead like our president. We will do it the right way. We will keep everyone safe.”

There is, of course, absolutely no way to “keep everyone safe” and, as the mayor who ignored the COVID-19 epidemic until the last possible second, even famously going to the gym the day after he was forced to close schools, de Blasio knows this.

The most galling part is when these politicians pretend they are making their decisions based on facts or science. But study after study shows that kids rarely contract the coronavirus. Children rarely spread the coronavirus. Children very, very rarely die of the coronavirus. …

There is no medical difference between sending kids to school three days per week or five. This is the worst example of splitting the baby. Part-time school will only make things more difficult for parents, teachers and — remember them? — kids.

Karol Markowicz, New York Post