New York: The door to the swing class open for about one million New York City School students on Monday in the largest in-the-person study experiments in the country during the Coronavirus pandemic.
Early the school year coincided with several milestone in the recovery of the city’s pandemic depending on the vaccine mandate.
Almost all 300,000 city employees will be asked to return to their workplace, directly on Monday because the city ends long distance work.
Most need to be vaccinated, or undergo Covid-19 weekly testing to remain in their work.
The city will also begin to enforce rules that require workers and customers vaccinate to go into rooms in restaurants, museums, gyms and entertainment venues.
Vaccination requirements have occurred for weeks, but have previously been enforced.
There will also be a vaccine mandate – without test-out options – for teachers, even though they have been given until September 27 to get their first chance.
Unlike some school districts throughout the country who still offer online instructions to families who prefer, New York City officials say there will be no long distance option even though the persistence of the Delta-19 variant is highly transplanted.
New York City made an open school for most of the last school years, with some students to mix long distance instructions and in-people, but the majority of families choose all-long distances.
That choice will not be available this year, Mayor Bill De Blasio insists.
“Our children need to be in school and are hard to believe that some children have not seen the inner class for one and a half years,” said Mayor Thursday.
“There are great consequences for that, including the consequences of health care.
The best healthy place for children is in school.” Masks will be asked for all students and staff members, as in the state of New York.
There is no vaccine mandate for students aged 12 years and over who qualifies for inoculation, but vaccination will be asked to participate in contact sports such as football and basketball and some extracurricular activities such as band and theater exercises.
About two-thirds of children aged 12 to 17 years are currently vaccinated.
On A.S., anyone 12 and more eligible for the Covid-19 vaccine.
Head of the Food and Narcotics Administration Vaccine said last week he hoped for children Semah 5 will be eligible to vaccinate at the end of 2021.
De Blasio, a Democrat in his last months, has confirmed that masks, protocol cleaning and random testing Covid-19 makes a school building safe.
But he gets a good pushback from parents who want their children to go home and from trade unions representing teachers and other school staff members.
One caller to the WNYC during the weekly appearance of the Mayor’s weekly radio on Friday he was “really beside myself with fear of sending my 6 year old son to school.” “We believe this is an amazingly safe environment,” answered De Blasio.
“We have proven it and the most important thing is our children must return.” Asked whether some students might just disappear from the system because their virus-alert parents would not send them to school, De Blogio said “The Vast, mostly” parents will bring their children to school.
The city has been in the arbitration with the Federation of Teacher United, which represents nearly 80,000 teachers in public public schools, for problems including accommodation for teachers who say they have health problems that prevent them vaccinated.
Arbitrator ruled at the end of Friday that the city had to offer non-class assignments to teachers who were not vaccinated due to medical and religious exclusions.
“As a group, the teacher has strongly supported the vaccine, but we have members with medical conditions or other reasons for a decrease in vaccination,” said UFT President Michael Mulgrew in the news release.
Meanwhile, other unions for city workers have objected to the Mayor’s decision to order employees back to work, saying that if they do their work far away, they must be allowed to continue.
The city worker committee, umbrella groups for trade unions representing city workers, also threaten legal action if the mayor moves to eliminate the option of testing weekly viruses for workers who choose not to be vaccinated.
And a group of restaurant owners and bars have sued the vaccination needs for dining and indoor employees, saying the city has surpassed its legal authority.
The school starts for 1 million children NYC in the middle of the new vaccine rule
