“We have people who are exhausted, overworked, not feeling well,” one Brooklyn principal said. “COVID has created crises in people’s lives that extend far beyond anything we can comprehend right now.”
, with the losses falling disproportionately on Black and brown families.) “Teachers are not receiving any prep to handle any of that,” Azad said.
Staffing shortages at some schools have compounded the problems faced by overtaxed teachers. Wagner subbed for a pre-K class that had lost both its teacher and its assistant teacher for more than a month. Alex Driver, who teaches tenth- and twelfth-grade English at a high school in Manhattan’s, frequently covers a period for a gym teacher who went on leave. Teachers in the D.O.E.
M. told me that her school’s rate of staff absences is markedly higher than in years past. “We have people who’ve had deaths in the family, and the effect is compounded by the multiple deaths they experienced during. We have people with small children who have to quarantine, so they need to stay home. We have people who are exhausted, overworked, not feeling well.” She went on, “has created crises in people’s lives that extend far beyond anything we can comprehend right now.
Her physical health began deteriorating. “I was sick the entire month of October,” she told me. “I had a fever every single day.” She used a week of sick days. Her depression worsened. “I couldn’t get myself to do work. I would sit in bed and cry until the last minute.” She worried that she could no longer camouflage her anguish in front of a classroom. “My lessons could have been a lot better,” she said.
This fall, another, more immediately visible component of the recovery plan was the heap of additional standardized tests in math and literacy, sourced from the nonprofit N.W.E.A. and the ed-tech companies Acadience and Curriculum Associates, at a total cost of. The tests “give you discrete information that a teacher wouldn’t otherwise pick up on,” Lisette Caesar, the principal of an elementary school in East Harlem, said.
In the meantime, Wagner said, teachers are expected to do the work that a grade level calls for, as if the students had been attending regular school the whole time—as if nothing had happened. “If I am obligated to teach second-grade math, but I have kids after the pandemic who are at a pre-K or kindergarten level for math—there’s no curriculum for that,” Wagner said.
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