CBS news was great. While he rambled on about how the city was up and operating fine, they kept showing stalled trucks, cars sliding all over the place, parents struggling to get to school and a jackknifed bus on Queens Blvd.
The arrogance he and Farina showed was no better than the arrogance Bloomberg and Walcott showed during their reign of abuse. If this is any indication of what the next four years will be like, the city is still in trouble.
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In many cases, the city is considered a child center for many students....and I am clearly talking on the elementary level. Many of those parents in the more lower middle or working class neighborhoods will and have sent their kids to school in any kind of storm. I have experienced this and have had decent sized classrooms.
I can not speak for middle or high schools though.
And I do not think they were being arrogant at all. There is a lot of truth to parents using schools as child services. I think they were acting dumb and naieve, but not arrogant.
And that is exactly why teachers get no respect. WE ARE NOT IN THE CHILDCARE BUSINESS.
This is the reality of the city elementary schools.. regardless if WE LIKE it or not. You have already said numerous times, if you dont think it is safe, then use a sick day.
Besides their dumb attitude into defending their choice to stay open, I saw they want to put some kind of of clear protocol in place for snow emergencies.
I refuse to defend them, sorry. And whether I take a day off or not has nothing to do with keepins schools open. Watch the news. It was not safe to be out.
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