Amidst an ongoing legal fight over the Adams administration's budget cuts to New York City's public schools, students and teachers share a mix of excitement and trepidation as they return with relaxed pandemic guidelines.
City public school students return to class Thursday facing less pandemic-related rules than previous years.City public school students return to class Thursday facing less pandemic-related rules than previous years.Noor Muhsin, 17, is admittedly “anxious” about the first day of school.
“It feels like we’re rolling back safety procedures because we want COVID to be gone,” she said. “But it’s not gone.” Millenium High School student Noor Muhsin worried about what the lifting of COVID-19 rules at city schools meant for her immunocompromised relatives.Millenium High School student Noor Muhsin worried about what the lifting of COVID-19 rules at city schools meant for her immunocompromised relatives.“I’m looking forward to the new year,” said Gary Rubenstein, a math teacher at Stuyvesant High School in Manhattan. “I’m excited to teach maybe without a mask and hope that that works out.
“With the budget cuts and with the demands and expectations, I feel like I’m going into [this year] with two hands tied behind my back,” said Pedro Dones, a math teacher at M.S. 363 in the Bronx.
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