From a story just published in The New York Times Opinion pages:
“This was an epicenter of the virus. We have a lot of teachers that lost family and got sick themselves, and they’re scared to death to come back,” said Principal Keane. “I basically cried at my budget meeting on Friday — I’ve got teacher salaries and that’s pretty much it. I keep asking where the tape is for the floor, to measure six feet, but it’s not here. We might have to furlough cleaning staff though we only have two now. We only have one nurse. We need more of these people, not less.”
In the South Bronx, Principal Keane has taken to parking out of sight behind the building when she comes to work. If the neighborhood kids see her car out front they try to come to school.
“It turns out the one place they didn’t think they wanted to be,” she said, “is the place they want to be more than anywhere else.”
