When school opens, they arrive at least an hour before classes, at 7 a.m.
When school opens on Thursday, there will be room for about 14,000 new seats in five new schools, new wings and leased classroom space.
The classroom work, however, including electrical, plumbing and heating that is being performed by other contractors like Diggins Mechanical in Thornwood, will be ready when school opens in September.
Wesley W. Horton, a lawyer for the plaintiffs, said that if those slots are unavailable when school opens in September, the plaintiffs will add a demand for compliance to the motion.
As a result, when school opens across the city in two weeks, more than 30,000 students in Grades 3 through 8 will move up a grade despite having essentially failed standardized reading or math tests last spring and without having had to attend summer school.
Indeed, cases have already started to decline in the Southeastern States, where they spiked in August when schools opened.
When schools opened in Mosul last October, Samar Hadi, a mother of five, sent her two daughters – Hala, six, and Tiba, seven, – to school without a hijab, as she had the year before.
Teachers and principals are bracing for radical change when schools open on Sept. 8.
Health officials expect a surge of new cases when schools open in the fall, but they cannot be sure.
