NY: New School Year Brings New Concerns of Pandemic ‘Educational Neglect’ Child Welfare Probes
City – September 08, 2021
With all New York kids set to soon return for in-person classes for the first time in 1 ½ years, Mayor Bill de Blasio tried to reassure nervous parents Wednesday that pandemic-related absences won’t immediately lead to child-neglect investigations. “If in the beginning of the school year, a parent is not ready, we’re going to keep talking to them or we’re going to keep trying to convince them,” de Blasio said during a morning news conference held with Schools Chancellor Meisha Ross Porter. “If that goes on for a while, then that’s a different scenario.” Porter said child welfare workers will only intervene if there is a “clear intent to keep a child from being educated, period.”
Also: Lessons From NYC’s Children of 9/11 Help the Kids of COVID as School Resumes: https://www.thecity.nyc/2021/9/8/22663840/nyc-children-of-9-11-help-covid-kids-as-school-resumes

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