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Cuo nervous but hopeful on school safety

Gov. Cuomo on Friday said he had his “fingers crossed” that Big Apple schools are ready to open safely — but admitted he is not sure he’d send his own kids to one in the city.

“I would have a lot of questions,” Cuomo admitted on the “Today” show when asked if he would send his children to New York City public schools amid the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.

“This is a risky proposition no matter how you do it, let’s be honest,” he said. “We’ve seen schools open — we’ve seen colleges open — and get into trouble in one week. So there’s a lot of questions to answer.”

Asked how confident he was that they were actually ready to reopen, he said, “Fingers crossed on all of this.”

The governor stressed that schools would open only if parents and teachers were “happy and confident” to do so, and that it would be decided “school district by school district.”

Meanwhile, a crowd of city teachers massed outside Schools Chancellor Richard Carranza’s Brooklyn apartment building Thursday night to demand a reopening delay.

Carrying signs and chanting, the throng argued that the city has failed to ensure the safety of school staffers amid the coronavirus crisis and that buildings should remain locked until their demands are met.

Members of the group carried a cardboard guillotine to drive home their assertion that the Department of Education is putting them at risk.

The action began with roughly 150 protesters gathering at Grand Army Plaza and later marching through Prospect Park before arriving at Carranza’s Prospect Lefferts Gardens apartment building.

The protesters remained there for roughly 40 minutes before police arrived and dispersed them without incident.

“We’re not going to stop until the decision-makers make the right decision,” Sunset Park teacher Annie Tan told The Post on Friday. “Carranza is a decisionmaker. We’re going to escalate this until our message gets heard.”

City Hall is pressing forward with a plan to launch a hybrid learning model that will have kids alternate between home and classroom instruction next month.

Mayor de Blasio has argued that the partial revival of the city school system is necessary to provide relief to working parents. He has also stressed the inferiority of remote learning compared to in-person instruction along with the need to reestablish some sense of normalcy for city kids.