At Protest Against In-Person Schooling, Grim Reaper Is in Attendance

The largest school system in the country is making a push to send its students back into the classroom — masks on, hand sanitizer readily available — as the coronavirus curve continues to flatten and the infection rate remains low across New York.

“If I go back to school, I’m gonna go back to school for one day a week,” said Meril Mousoom, a 16-year-old student activist in Queens. “I’m not going to be able to take advanced math or French or Spanish, or any of the things that actually fucking matter…So when they tell me, ‘Oh, are you gonna go back to fucking school,’ what fucking school is there?”

Hundreds of people convened at the United Federation of Teachers building near Wall Street on Monday evening to call on New…

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