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Mayor Bill de Blasio hedged Friday when asked if the Big Apple’s public schools will continue to offer virtual learning options next school year, adding to a string of recent comments from city officials that cast doubt over the return of the program as they try to get kids back into classrooms.
“We’ll talk to parents and we’ll talk to health experts and we’ve got a lot of time to make adjustments as we go along,” de Blasio told WNYC host Brian Lehrer, “but the plan is for every child to be back in school.”
When pressed by the radio host on whether that meant there wouldn’t be virtual learning options for parents still nervous about the coronavirus pandemic, de Blasio dodged.
“No, I’m saying the plan is for every child to be back in school. Four months is a long time,” Hizzoner replied.
“We can accommodate every single child. We are moving full speed ahead with that plan,” he continued. “I think parents should want their kids back in school, honestly, because the entire situation is better now and it’s going to be, I think, night and day between now and September.”
De Blasio’s remarks come a day after Schools Chancellor Meisha Ross Porter described remote learning as a “potential option” for the fall, according to education news website Chalkbeat.
“As far as a potential option to not be in person, again, that will be dependent on where we are. The city is making a lot of progress,” Porter said during a meeting of her parent advisory council.
Both de Blasio and Porter have pointed to the city’s plummeting coronavirus case numbers and testing positivity rates as more and more New Yorkers get vaccinated against the deadly disease.
So far, 56 percent of adults in the five boroughs have gotten at least one jab of the inoculations and 42 percent are fully vaccinated, city statistics show.
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