CNN: Florida will require schools to reopen in August

[Saucycarpdog]

Florida will require schools to reopen in August despite a surge in coronavirus cases | CNN

Florida, which initially avoided the worst of the pandemic in its first few months, now has the third-highest number of coronavirus cases in the US at 206,000 and counting.

www.cnn.com

Florida, the new US hotspot for coronavirus, will require schools to reopen in August.

The state's Commissioner of the Department of Education, Richard Corcoran, issued an emergency order on Monday requiring all "brick and mortar schools" to open "at least five days per week for all students."

Under the order, schools must reopen in full to "ensure the quality and continuity of the educational process, the comprehensive wellbeing of students and families and a return to Florida hitting its full economic stride."

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School districts will need to submit a reopening plan that satisfies the requirements of the new emergency order to the Department of Education.

School openings also will need to be consistent with safety precautions as defined by the Florida Department of Health and local health officials and be "supportive of Floridians, young and adult, with underlying conditions that make them medically vulnerable," according to the order.

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I suspect this is a beginning of a domino effect where red states will go full steam ahead with fall classes.

 

[PlanetSmasher]

Trump makes a demand, idiot red states immediately acquiesce to it. Republicans really want everyone to die, don't they?

 

[RoKKeR]

I see DeSantis the Trump mime is staying right on message.

 

[SnatcherHunter]

My wife is a teacher. I ain't sending my kids to school.

I am confident all schools will close 2 weeks after opening (If they go through with this)

 

[Pineapple Taco]

11,000 cases a day is not enough.

 

[Arkanim94]

3.000.000 cases by tomorrow btw.

 

[HockeyBird]

The only time conservatives care about school is when it can harm children and families.

 

[strikeselect]

This is going to be an absolute shit show.

 

[onadesertedisland]

Here it goes again. President's lackeys going to kill more people.

 

[Strike]

Good luck.

 

[Deleted member 29660]

Sure why not, if you decide to do stupid shit you might as well go all in and try and get all the age groups right.

 

[shinobi602]

We lucked out that virtual school is an option for our son. I feel terrible for parents who don't have that option. No fucking way I'm packing my kid into class, lunch and playgrounds with thousands of other kids next month.

Fuck you Desantis.

 

[mattlikewhoa]

This won't end well... the President said "jump" and DeSantis was already asking "How high!?"

 

[makonero]

if you look close enough, you can see a tiny orange arm inserted into desantis's anus, clearly controlling all his words and actions

 

[Milennia]

I hope we don't do this in NY
My mom is a nurse who tests people daily and half her patients come back positive, and I don't even live in manhatten....
My classes all have 30+ people and i'm a nursing student so I would have to head back to physical clinicals during COVID

 

[MIMIC]

This is such a cluster fuck. And masks will be required, but good luck getting small children to wear masks all day.

 

[Deleted member 61909]

my co-worker works part time at a high school and she's not planning on returning because of this.

 

[Stunner911]

I hate it here

 

[Ze_Shoopuf]

This is ordering borderline attempted mass murder.

 

[Patrick Klepek]

We haven't sent our children (4, 3 months) to daycare since early March, and I can't imagine that changing anytime soon? I keep hoping there will be more information that comes out about viral transmission from children to adults, so that maybe that could change.

Feel terrible for the spot this puts teachers in.

 

[Deleted member 31923]

There really is a competition between all the MAGA governors in places like Texas, Georgia, Florida, and Arizona for who is the worst, but I would say DeSantis has a healthy lead so far.

 

[AliceAmber]

Those poor children and staff. This is going to affect most of my family members.

 

[Lace]

3.000.000 cases by tomorrow btw.

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The crazy thing is the results lag anywhere from 3-8 days. We definitely have hit 3M already.

 

[Wraith]

How many weeks until the first class goes back on quaratine due to an outbreak?

 

[MisterSnrub]

Tens of thousands of unnecessary deaths directly traceable to decisions like this

 

[SnatcherHunter]

How many weeks until the first class goes back on quaratine due to an outbreak?

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At most 14 days.
I say even the first week. I can see many infected kids going to school on the first day.

 

[PCfromNYC]

What a puppet. Hopefully parents will do the right thing and keep their kids home instead.

 

[Dark Cloud]

Nope. I'm telling my family don't go. Fuck them to hell

 

[SnatcherHunter]

We lucked out that virtual school is an option for our son. I feel terrible for parents who don't have that option. No fucking way I'm packing my kid into class, lunch and playgrounds with thousands of other kids next month.

Fuck you Desantis.

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This. My wife is a teacher here. She is terrified. I am willing to leave my kids at home rather than risking their lives. I am certain all schools will close again after 2 weeks or so in August. Corona is going to be all over the schools affecting kids and teachers.

 

[chairhome]

My county (Orange county) is having a school board meeting live streamed right now. They have a health officer speaking now about the risks and steps they can take to open safely. It sounds like most of the school board is pissed about the reopening executive order

 

[sensui-tomo]

This. My wife is a teacher here. She is terrified. I am willing to leave my kids at home rather than risking their lives. I am certain all schools will close again after 2 weeks or so in August. Corona is going to be all over the schools affecting kids and teachers.

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Dumb question on my end, but can't and wont enough teachers plead with their unions to go on strike if they feel its too dangerous to go to schools or is that not an option?

 

[Kinggroin]

We have the option of virtual school. So, yeah. Virtual school it is.

 

[platocplx]

Teachers get sick just because of kids in general. This is really a disaster. I can't believe people cannot figure out better ways of doing shit.

 

[Lobster Roll]

Are they intentionally making every wrong decision? It feels like they're presented with the non-killing option and the killing option and every single time, they choose death.

 

[SnatcherHunter]

Dumb question on my end, but can't and wont enough teachers plead with their unions to go on strike if they feel its too dangerous to go to schools or is that not an option?

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That's what my wife said this morning. I think teachers will def start a movement through the union.

 

[nenned]

In Massachusetts, each town has to have three plans: in- school learning, at-home learning (curriculum provided to parents), and a hybrid approach (some days child is at school while others they are at home). It is ultimately up to the parents to decide what it best. I think this is a sensible setup for parents of kids, but I don't envy teachers, bus drivers, and other school workers.

 

[Torpedo Vegas]

Every thing else in Florida is going great, so why not

 

[Wraith]

At most 14 days.
I say even the first week. I can see many infected kids going to school on the first day.

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Even worse, I bet some parents will knowingly send their symptomatic, untested kids to school. "It's no worse than a cold, they're not that sick, why should I have to stay home from work for this?" Y'know in addition to all the asymptomatic kids who already have it.

 

[Slayven]

These folks need to be up on endangerment charges

 

[Harris Katz]

I live in Florida and our governor is an incompetent asshole, just like the president. Ron DeSantis was the dude who was and continues to be up Trump's ass, almost more than any other republican governor... check out his campaign ad below... It is so embarrassing! It is a much watch to see what we are dealing with in my state.

He is a complete asshole. He took credit for the initial low Covid numbers, even though it was really only due to South Florida (Miami, Broward (including Ft. Lauderdale) and Palm Beach Counties) shutting down early, against his wishes. There is no statewide approach here. He just wants to pander to Trump.

That being said, the only caveat to the executive order about opening the schools next month is that he is allowing "local government" to opt out. So, each county may follow different rules. It is DeSantis' way of not taking responsibility if this goes bad and only taking credit if there is no bad outcome to his continuing ineptitude.

 

[Musubi]

This is such a cluster fuck. And masks will be required, but good luck getting small children to wear masks all day.

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Shit we can't get grown fucking adults to wear masks.

 

[Heidern]

This is awful. We have too many cooks and no one is making dinner. Our government is out of control.

 

[SnatcherHunter]

Even worse, I bet some parents will knowingly send their symptomatic, untested kids to school. "It's no worse than a cold, they're not that sick, why should I have to stay home from work for this?"

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This.

You be surprised how idiotic and irresponsible
some parents can be. My wife was sick many times last year thanks to parents constantly sending their kids sick to school.

 

[Garlador]

Well, a lot of Republican religious zealots wanted Trump to bring us closer to the apocalypse...

We're at Biblical levels of pandemic infection now.

 

[El_TigroX]

Why even mention "full economic stride" in a release about schools? Since when does a school in a community have any bearing on the economy? Mask is off with that comment... if the mask hadn't already been torn away months ago.

Shameful. Good luck parents... your kids are unwitting super spreaders now, and may everyone stay healthy. Honestly, I feel so horribly for you, and for teachers and for everyone connected to this mess.

 

[Josh378]

And when a child dies by Contracting covid-19 at a school, someone's going to have to take responsibility. A lot of heads are going to roll if that happens.

Hell, when the first teacher catches covid-19 or if they pass away due to covid-19 that's going to be a huge strike going on in Florida and they're going to want to have names of people who responsible. I do not want to be in the State of Florida right now if your a child or a k through 12 teacher.

 

[Illusion]

Time to say your actually live in Georgia for your kids sake.

 

[Azerach]

in worst hit countries it hit 5% but they want to kill.

 

[echoshifting]

Good luck with that? Many parents won't send their kids. Staff will strike. Feels like it will be a game of chicken with the unions.

 

[Vylder]

Not that I agree with this decision, but when are schools suppose to open exactly? Assuming we never find a cure for COVID-19, what's going to happen then?