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but maybe they'll do a summer session: https://www.nycballet.com/balletbreaks (geared for the 3-8 age group).
May. 24th, 2020
This ought to be sorted by number of kids rather than by family, but it doesn't sound like it is. Maybe the articles I've read are worded badly, though. It also really, really ought to be sorted so that people with lower incomes get more. In the comments to the articles I've read many people are declaring their intent to donate the food they purchase to a friend or the food bank. Donating to a friend is one thing, but I suggested that if they want to donate to the food bank they should purchase food for themselves and then donate the same amount of cash to the food bank, which can spend it better. (Alternatively, they can spend that same amount of cash on diapers, toilet paper, cleaning supplies, menstrual supplies, pet food, and the like, which many food banks can't purchase but which still are needed by their clients.)
It doesn't sound like homeschool families are included, and honestly, I think that NYCHEA ought to organize a petition and a round of formal complaints - homeschoolers are registered with the DOE, so there isn't that logistical barrier, and homeschoolers usually only have one parent engaging in paid labor, so they often have less of a cushion.
On another issue, I think our beaches might be open this weekend, but only if you don't do anything fun like play games, barbecue, or go in the water. The logic in the region seems to be "If we don't open the beaches, they'll travel hither and yon so we may as well limit how far they go - but let's not encourage them too much." I feel that.
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It doesn't sound like homeschool families are included, and honestly, I think that NYCHEA ought to organize a petition and a round of formal complaints - homeschoolers are registered with the DOE, so there isn't that logistical barrier, and homeschoolers usually only have one parent engaging in paid labor, so they often have less of a cushion.
On another issue, I think our beaches might be open this weekend, but only if you don't do anything fun like play games, barbecue, or go in the water. The logic in the region seems to be "If we don't open the beaches, they'll travel hither and yon so we may as well limit how far they go - but let's not encourage them too much." I feel that.
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