“How can we keep track of who came to school in a Superman mask, and who came to school in a Transformer mask?”ĭaBreo-St.Hilaire, who is thirty-two years old, grew up in East Flatbush, a predominantly Black neighborhood, and has taught at P.S./I.S. “Parents also express concern about what happens if the children exchange masks,” she said. It will be very difficult for young people to social-distance.” Families have asked her whether restless kindergarteners will wear masks for hours at a time. “They’re not going to understand that they can’t hug their friends, that they can’t hug their teachers. They wipe their nose and touch their friends,” she said. “Every child from kindergarten to third grade, they touch a lot. She wonders whether-and how-school officials will take the temperature of several hundred students when they arrive each morning. She worries about the coronavirus spreading when parents drop off and pick up their children. Now she wants to know about the city’s plans for seating and social distancing. Hilaire often sat on a round blue rug next to her students.
“We really don’t know enough details yet to say it’s safe to go back,” she said.īefore the pandemic, DaBreo-St. Hilaire, who has asthma, is not hugely reassured. In New York City, the mayor, Bill de Blasio, and education officials have proposed a hybrid plan of in-person and online learning for the fall semester, for the 1.1 million students in the city’s school district, the nation’s largest. We would love to be back in the classroom and do that hands-on learning with our scholars, but we also want to be safe.” On Friday, New York’s governor, Andrew Cuomo, announced that schools across the city and the state could reopen, but he left the exact details to local officials. We’re actually working much harder at home than we were in the classroom. “There is a lot of stigma around teachers not wanting to go back to work,” she told me. She loved being with her students before the coronavirus hit-hugging them and using dance breaks to liven up the day at P.S./I.S. Hilaire, a kindergarten teacher in Brooklyn, has a response to those who attack teachers for being reluctant to return to the classroom amid the pandemic. I hope he gets the help he needs but in the meantime he has no place as a teacher, more so when some of the complaints where parents of students who are still children.Zenzile DaBreo-St. It was too much for the administration to look past. According to my dad, this guy is an alcoholic and additional to the money complaints, he had also complaints from his morning students that he was always hungover.
I will probably look into some dance classes to fill the gap of those training sessions.ĮTA: Just so you all know, the teacher has been fired. I feel guilty for his family and specially his kids, as he lost two students (my dad pulled my sister from her classes with him too), but I feel reassured in my choices. We won't be getting back the classes we paid in advance though. He tried to tell my dad I still owed him classes but as y'all know we had our back covered. I escaped and called my dad, who then went there and raised hell, and basically got the teacher suspended because it was his fifth complaint in a year. I tried to not get my dad involved because I'm an adult after all, however, the begging teacher cornered me after my session to guilt trip me again, and tried to coerce me into keeping him as my teacher, telling me it was a one time mistake and I will never understand because I'm privileged. In short, I reported the teacher myself yesterday and I cancelled my classes with him. I read all of the comments and while I still feel guilty, I want to thank everyone who took the time to reassure me in my decision.
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