With little official guidance, New York City principals are increasingly taking on the roles of contact tracer, epidemiologist, and public-health official.
in positive case rates across the city, including among children. In group texts and on social media, educators reported spending hours on hold with the Situation Room, or not being able to get through at all; e-mails went unanswered for days, or indefinitely. Meanwhile, widespread delays in the return of P.C.R. test results heightened the over-all uncertainty about how risky in-person school had become.cases in schools were low and that a large-scale shutdown was not an option.
“I can’t even tell you how many cases we’ve tried to call in to the Situation Room. I think we’re at fourteen or fifteen cases in the last two weeks. More than a third of our staff was out today. Some of them are confirmedcases, some called out sick, some are taking care of sick family members, some are getting boosters and reacting to that. So the day started extremely early, with a giant puzzle of how we were going to cover all of our classrooms.
“Meanwhile, we’re getting e-mail reminders about compliance things—something that’s supposed to be inputted into our online system. We are busy running a school, counselling students who are having panic attacks, having struggles at home, having a hard time succeeding in class or conflicts with friends. Maybe it would be helpful if you could come help us out and make sure our schools are functioning, and then we can work on this compliance item.
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