This is why COVID-19 is continuing to spread. Trump pressures the CDC to flip flop and support his demand to immediately reopen schools. DeSantis jumps on the band wagon. However, on the down law, school districts announce temporary online learning, while DeSantis looks the other way while continuing to insist that he is all-in on reopening in-person education.
https://www.nbcmiami.com/news/local/education-on-6/gov-desantis-continues-push-to-reopen-schools/2269784/
Last school year ended with teachers and students trying to make the best of an emergency situation, learning and teaching from home.
At a news media event at a school in Clearwater Wednesday, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and state education commissioner Richard Corcoran reiterated a position they took weeks ago: that parents should have the options of keeping their kids home for online instruction or sending them back to classrooms because, they say, remote learning is not only far from ideal, it’s damaging.
“Many students will suffer academic and physical and mental health consequences if they’re not able to get back into the classroom, I think that it’s already happened,” DeSantis said.
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However, Miami-Dade Public Schools announced Wednesday that school would begin with distance learning only, and Broward superintendent Robert Runcie has made a similar recommendation to his school board. The positivity rates in both counties are simply too high, according to experts consulted by the school districts, to allow students and staff back on campus. Both districts are targeting October as a time to start in-person instruction, assuming the pandemic numbers cooperate.
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