UPDATE: NYC teachers may stage "sickout" mutiny over de Blasio's refusal to close schools

Michael Mulgrew and Comrade de Blasio

UPDATE: Bowing to pressure from teachers and parents, the incompetent Mayor Bill de Blasio, has agreed to shutter public schools by Tuesday or Wednesday and keep them closed tentatively until at least April 20th, [crap weasel Adolf Hitler's birthday].

A number of New York City teachers are calling for “mass sickout” mutiny in defiance of Communist Mayor Bill de Blasio’s empty-headed refusal to close public schools to stem the coronavirus outbreak.

All Catholic elementary schools will be closed, because these schools are not run by the government that is headed by blockheads like de Blasio.

Now you can understand why this pea-brain didn't get even a tiny foothold in the 2020 Democratic campaign bid for president. Nobody likes him in the city.

There have been social media calls for a revolt and anxious teachers are conferring with colleagues about taking drastic action to protect themselves and their families from the coronavirus, now that the news media speaks of little else.

“We’ve talked about it,” one teacher told The New York Post. He added that his union chapter is holding a meeting on Monday to vote whether to join the sickout. “Other teachers I know have said they will call out.

MORE-UFT, a faction of the teacher’s union, blasted de Blasio for ignoring warnings that keeping schools open puts students and staff at risk.

“Because of this irresponsibility, teachers will need to take action to protect the health of our students and their families by calling in sick on Monday,” said a bulletin sent to members Saturday.

By "irresponsibility," they mean de Blasio's blatant stupidity.

Success Academy, which teaches 18,000 students across 45 schools in the city, will shut down completely and move to online learning until this crisis is assuaged. Other charter schools, which are privately run and don't depend on cretins like Bill de Blasio to make their decisions for them, will also shut down and revert to online learning.

Teachers’ union president Michael Mulgrew, City Council Speaker Corey Johnson and City Comptroller Scott Stringer have called on the Department of Education to shutter schools for now, but continue to distribute meals to children with irresponsible or lazy parents, and provide online academics.

Already, amid mounting demands that the city close schools to stem the spread of infection, a growing number of teachers are staying out.

On average, as least 3,100 teachers a day, or 3.9 percent of the system’s 79,000 teachers, freaked out and shunned school last week, the city Department of Education said Friday.

A DOE spokeswomen could not give the teacher absenteeism rate for Friday — when student attendance plummeted to 68%, down from 89% on Monday.

However, the number is likely to skyrocket because teachers can enter absences into the attendance system days after they are out.

On Saturday, Mayor de Blasio stuck to his guns, while sticking his head up into the deep recesses of his nether regions, about keeping schools open.

Closure would cause “a cascading effect,” negatively impacting the subways and hospitals because "the collective" would stay home with their kids, Comrade de Blasio predicted.

Hizzoner said that hundreds of thousands of teenagers would be left unsupervised, and could be unsafe or get in trouble on the street, but added that they should still be allowed to vote at 16.

Sources told The Post that several teachers at PS 107 in Park Slope — where a parent tested positive for coronavirus and my friend Anthony gives great haircuts at his Court Street shop — did not come to work Friday and student attendance plunged.

NYC teachers get 10 paid sick days where they can 'veg out' and a doctor’s note isn’t necessary.

Some parents are angry that schools remain open. The father of a Brooklyn Technical High School student ["Wreck Tech!"] said his son’s friend attended school all week — before learning his dad had tested positive for the coronavirus, aka COVID-19.

After notifying the school Thursday, administrators simply told him to self-quarantine for two weeks. And these are the people in charge of teaching the future of our nation!

Meanwhile, the DOE confirmed that a student who attends IS 27 in Staten Island has tested positive for COVID-19.

“The student was not in school while symptomatic,” said spokeswoman Miranda Barbot, who apparently knows as much about virology as a worm knows about algebra.

The building is being “deep-cleaned,” she said. “We expect it to be open on Monday, pending Health Department confirmation.”

Let's all pray for the parents and especially the grandparents of the NYC public school students.

But hey, New York City keeps electing leftists like Bill de Blasio. The reaped what they sowed.


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