NYC Shifts Blame for Remote School Failures onto Students with Summer Guilt Trip

June 1, 2024 TruthUSA

New York City public schools just can’t quit remote learning, no matter how much of an educational and logistical disaster it’s proven to be again and again.

Witness the latest debacle: Schools trying to guilt trip parents into forcing their kids to log on during an upcoming day off.

Why should schoolkids be wasting time logging into Zoom instead of playing outside on a beautiful early June day, you ask?

child working on commuter — School’s often rely on remote learning despite chronic absenteeism. Christopher Sadowski

Because last time the schools tried to go full remote, during a February snow day, the system crashed.

So now — the moronic argument runs — the onus is on kids to help the schools test out their online tech to make sure that the next time it works properly.

In other words, Chancellor David Banks and his merry band of administrative lackeys are saying before the fact: If we screw up again, it’s not on us. It’s the children who are wrong!

Yet more proof that the perverse logic governing New York’s public school system is hostile to the tots, kids, and teens it’s supposed to be educating.

But it makes perfect sense to our mindless educrats (and service providers like IBM, with massive public-sector dollar signs in their eyes).

All the data we have shows again and again that Zoom school is disastrous.

The horrible decline in standardized test scores, notably concentrated among black and Latino students, that New York saw as the direct result of pandemic remote “learning” is proof enough of that.