Head of State Andrew Cuomo said Friday that he ‘crossed his fingers’ that Big Apple schools are ready to open safely – but admitted he was not sure he was sending his own children to one in the city.
“I would have a lot of questions,” Cuomo admitted in the show “Today” when asked if he would send his children to public schools in New York City amid the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.
‘This is a risky statement, no matter how you do it, let’s be honest. We’ve seen schools open – we’ve seen colleges open – and get into trouble in one week. ‘There are a lot of questions to answer,’ he said.
Asked how confident he was that they were actually ready to reopen, he said, “Fingers crossed this all over.”
The mayor insisted that schools would only open if parents and teachers were “happy and confident” to do so, and that it would be decided “school district by school district.”
“We have 700 school districts and I’m sure we’ll have 700 different answers in New York,” he told the NBC morning show.
Cuomo continued to joke about taking the Empire State from “the highest infection rate in the United States to the lowest.”
“That you can treat this beast if you’re serious about it,” he said. “If there is one state that can reopen schools, it is us.”
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