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Some children at New York City schools are still eating outside in order for them to social distance despite temperatures dropping ahead of the winter months.
“It’s getting a little ridiculous at this point,” one mother at MS 104 in Manhattan told the New York Post. “They’ve eaten outdoors every day this week. It’s cold.”
Temperatures in New York City this week reached a high of 56 degrees and a low of 30 degrees. The Department of Education allowed principals to figure out their own lunch arrangements this year to comply with social distancing rules.
The CDC recommends students maintain at least 3 feet of distance between each other and a distance of at least 6 feet between students and staff.
A line of preschool children crossing the street with a teacher
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Not all children in New York City public schools are eating outside this fall. But parents of children attending schools where they do eat outside are voicing their dissatisfaction.
“It’s already hard enough for a little kid to eat outside while sitting on concrete with a mask on,” a mother of a Brooklyn fourth-grader who ate outside this week told the New York Post. “What does the weather have to be to go inside? How low does it have to go?”
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“We’ve heard no plans to bring them inside anytime soon,” a mother in Park Slope, Brooklyn, said. “In fact, they are still asking for parents to give the school their Fresh Direct bags to create seating pads. It doesn’t sound like they’re going in.”
Other parents told the outlet that teachers and administrators do not eat outside.
“The problem is that there is no hard metric for when the kids can go inside,” one parent said. “It’s just up to the principal,…
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