Taking Over the Streets
In late August, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio announced that city schools—including public, charter, private, and religious schools—would be able to take their classes outside to playgrounds, streets, and parks. Per Politico, school principals that want to employ outdoor learning to prevent the spread of covid-19 will be able to apply for permits to shut down streets to traffic, thereby using that space, or set up in local parks.
“The disease doesn’t spread the same outdoors. We’ve seen that over and over. So we want to give schools the option to do as much outdoors as they can,” said de Blasio, who originally struck down the idea over bad weather concerns and bafflingly suggested that global warming could help with the whole winter thing.
