NYC & Schools: Truly thorny decision as to whether to close. 3% cutoff seems random. Or not? Stunning that City, which pioneered public health in the USA is flying blind. Basic facts -KNOWABLE facts- missing. How many teachers have gotten the virus? @JesseDrucker #Thread

2. What # infected in schools? What does contract tracing tell us about how they got infected and who infected in turn? What about Cafeteria workers? Principals, etc? Why isn't every teacher who goes into a school tested regularly, with # of results posted? Ditto for kids who

3. get sick. What we know about remote learning? What % of HS students tune in daily? Weekly? What % turn in work? What do grades, testing etc, tell us? If we are not measuring this, why not? Is 'remote' learning delivering anything like an education for the majority

4. of students? @NYCMayor & @DOEChancellor inability to answer such questions deeply perplexing, and speaks to degradation of honest tools of measurement. After our hospitals and mass transit, there is no more vital agency to keep open and running than our schools.

5. It is public education crisis and literacy crisis with potential to damage students for years. Perhaps this is unavoidable, perhaps the virus is too dangerous. But important to realize how much we are flying needlessly blind in making crucial decisions.