Letters to the Editor — April 12, 2021

The Issue: Karol Markowicz’s column arguing that NYC schools should open fully for in-person learning.

Thank you for putting Karol Markowicz’s “Open the schools” on the front page (April 9).

Please keep pushing on this. I have three children in three different public schools, two of which have had no in-person teaching since March of 2020.

Vaccinated teachers are still at home, — why? A UFT representative at one of my kid’s high schools said in a Zoom meeting only a couple of weeks ago that it could be “years” before there is full, five-day-a-week, in-person teaching. Years!

Thanks for continuing to cover this very distressing situation.

H. Mason

Brooklyn

Enough of teachers refusing to teach in school.

They should be given a day to return to, and if they fail to do so, their pay should stop.

If the union goes on strike, it should lose its checkoff privilege. Let the union collect its own dues.

Since we know the students aren’t be taught now, what difference would a strike make?

Florida’s kids have been back in school since August, and even with a vaccine, New York schools remain basically closed.

We need leaders who do what’s right, instead of worrying about getting re-elected. In future elections, I will not vote for any candidate who gets the support of the teachers union.

John Habersberger

New Paltz

The front page headline of Friday’s Post says it all — Open the schools!

This nonsense of having the city public school system partly in-person and partly virtual has got to end now. Students cannot be educated properly with this asinine system of teaching.

It has already been determined that the rate of virus transmission in the schools is very low, so what’s the problem here?

There is absolutely no logical reason why public schools can’t reopen. If Catholic schools were able to open and fully operate with little to no problems because they implemented the necessary, proper health protocols, then why can’t public schools do the same thing?

John Amato

Fresh Meadows

Enough is enough! City schools have been closed for more than a year because of coronavirus, but across the country, many schools are open full-time.

Excuses, promises and lies are Mayor de Blasio’s policy, as he delays opening at the behest of United Teachers Federation. Gov. Cuomo is AWOL as his plate overflows with scandals.

Add in American Federation of Teachers boss Randi Weingarten’s dumb comment that: “American Jews are now part of the ownership class and now want to take the ‘ladder of opportunity’ away from those who do not have it” by opening schools. What garbage pail did that come from?

As a well-known conservative commentator used to say, “It’s sick out there and getting sicker.”

Manny Martin

Manhattan

I agree 100 percent with Karol Markowicz. Schools need to be open.

Many parents have full-time jobs, and having sons and daughters home with online learning is difficult.

More importantly, high schoolers need social interaction with students and teachers to prepare them for college and the real world.

Matt Engel

Wilkes-Barre, Pa.

Markowicz got it right. De Blasio made a deal with UFT President Mike Mulgrew: The vote of the UFT’s rank-and-file in return for complete control of the school system.

Of course, the rank-and-file could buck their head and demand that schools reopen, but I suspect that they like collecting a paycheck (and other unearned benefits) without working full-time.

The next time you see a New York City public school teacher, thank him or her for preventing our schoolchildren from learning. Naturally, Cuo­mo could intervene, but he’s useless.

In the next mayoral election, keep union-backed, crooked garbage out of City Hall.

Elio Valenti

Brooklyn

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