Bronx principals object to Mayor Bill de Blasio's plan for outdoor instruction because of the city's gun violence and drug use

Brett T. | 7:27 PM on August 25, 2020

As Twitchy reported earlier Tuesday, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio has a new plan to make it safe to reopen the schools this fall during the COVID-19 epidemic: Public schools could open up outdoor classrooms while city workers inspect every single classroom in the city’s 1,800 public schools for air quality and ventilation. What about winter? Global warming seems to have solved that issue, with de Blasio explaining that “the winters aren’t the winters we used to know.”

Principals aren’t happy about having less than three weeks to prepare for outdoor instruction, and in the Bronx, they’re opposing outdoor classrooms because of gun violence and drug use.

Bronx principals say outdoor classrooms too dangerous amid gun violence, drug use https://t.co/dyOj06NHc7 pic.twitter.com/65ZA2iOUhW

— New York Post (@nypost) August 25, 2020

The New York Post reports:

Nearly two dozen Bronx principals say they’d love to have outdoor classrooms — if only they didn’t have to worry about their students getting shot or picking up used drug syringes off the ground.

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“Most of the parks next to the schools which we use for recess belongs to the Parks Department has to be cleaned daily as syringes and other drug paraphernalia are constantly found there each morning among broken beer bottles, urine etc.,’’ the letter said.

On Tuesday, The Post found at least five syringes littering the playground at PS 18 on Morris Avenue in District 7 in the South Bronx — and five more of the used drug instruments along the sidewalk outside, as three to four spaced-out, disheveled derelicts hung around the fence.

We were assured that de Blasio in 2018 had planned to hire six workers to remove used needles from parks because drug users just weren’t using the needle disposal bins the city had put up.

New York, everyone

— Carson Young (@Young_shots) August 25, 2020

It’s almost like DeBlasio has an algorithm that helps make his every decision the worst course of action possible.

I mean he can’t be this bad by accident.

— @PresidentShemp (@presidentshemp) August 25, 2020

So students can’t go back to the classroom because of the coronavirus, and they can’t have outdoor classes because they’ll catch HIV from all the needles, if they’re not shot first. Sounds to us like they’d be safer opening up the schools and taking their chances with COVID-19 — but the teachers unions won’t allow that.

Related:

Mayor de Blasio's new education plan relies on global warming to make it warm enough for students this winter https://t.co/EIxdkswOHx

— Twitchy Team (@TwitchyTeam) August 25, 2020