Mayor Bill de Blasio's latest chess move in the tense battle over in-person education in New York City was to unveil a surprise plan this week for outdoor learning in public, private and charter schools.
There's a historical precedent for outdoor learning in New York in response to contagious disease outbreaks. During a major tuberculosis outbreak in the early 1900s New York City school children attendedBureau of Charities, Brooklyn, via Library of CongressAn open air class on a ferryboat with Manhattan and the Brooklyn Bridge in the background, 1911.Children do handicrafts during open-air school on a rooftop in New York City, 1912.
"There's a movement that includes school gardening, environmental education, physical education outdoors and sensory exploration," Villamil said."That's one end of the spectrum. At the other end of the spectrum, there are people who are thinking of outdoor instruction as moving desks outside and setting them up under a tent," she added.First graders at Brooklyn New School visit the Salt Marsh Center in Brooklyn, New York.
Students at Brooklyn New School work on a physics study in a playground near the school in Brooklyn, New York. "While we appreciate that school communities are actively seeking to solve these problems, we fear it will further the divide between the haves and have nots in our city," the letter continued."The COVID-19 funding provided to schools is completely inadequate to address the challenges we face. Our schools need immediate answers, a clear budget and the resources to move forward safely.
"It is outright disrespectful to school communities who have been working around the clock and planning without adequate $ & time to keep finding information out like this," he said of the mayor's sudden outdoor education announcement.
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