FL Education Commissioner requires all Florida school districts to reopen campuses in August

[brooklynite]

Source: WTXL News

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (WTXL) — Florida Education Commissioner Richard Corcoran has issued an executive order requiring all of Florida's public K-12 schools to reopen in August.

As part of the executive order issued Monday, school districts and charter school governing boards must open brick and mortar schools at least five days per week for all students in August.

"Upon reopening in August, all school boards and charter school governing boards must open brick and mortar schools at least five days per week for all students, subject to advice and orders of the Florida Department of Health, local departments of health, Executive Order 20-149 and subsequent executive orders," the order reads.

School districts must also provide "the full array of services that are required by law so that families who wish to educate their children in a brick and mortar school have the opportunity to do so."

Read more: https://www.wtxl.com/news/local-news/fl-education-commissioner-requires-all-florida-school-districts-to-reopen-campuses-in-august

[machoneman]

1. Gee, yah wonder if DeSatan was told by Trumpy to do this? Wanna bet?

[AZ8theist]

16. What could go wrong?????

[OrlandoDem2]

2. So they should wait until Monday, August 31.

Most start 8/10 or 8/17. This could buy 2-3 more weeks to *hopefully* get the numbers back down. It’s just plain wrong to open in 1 month with these numbers.

[sheshe2]

3. Read this.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100213709638

[yaesu]

4. bet tRump will be down there opening day hugging the flag. nt

[bobbieinok]

5. 7000 FL kids infected now--how many after school starts?

[Kaiserguy]

6. I wonder how many kids will have to die

for Trump?

[Flaleftist]

7. The moralilty rate for kids seems low. It's more likely they will spread it and kill

their parents and grandparents.

[BigmanPigman]

10. Apparently Dem/Blue kids and parents are disposable to him.

[Dreampuff]

8. Unbelievable

I was shocked when I heard this on the news. I didn't see it, but I was told that the orange man sent out a tweet very recently, possibly today, that said our schools need to be open. DeSantis wants that pat on the head or wherever he gets it.

Didn't they just recently say that the age group that is being hit hard right now is the 0 to 19 group?

[patphil]

9. That is absolutely insane.

Everyone in those schools; teachers, students, administrators, maintenance staff...they are all at risk. Each school will be a covid hot spot that spreads infection throughout the entire community.
Within a month this plan will fail as the case load soars and the local hospitals, which are already at or near capacity, are overwhelmed.

I guess the Florida Republican Party is determined to self-destruct.
But. guess what, Floridians can't recall their governor.
They can only vote him out of office, and that can't happen before November of 2022.

I hope the residents of Florida can hold on until then.

[progree]

11. I thought right-wingers hated big government, I thought they believed decisions should be made at

the most local level possible, or better yet, by the individuals/families/parents who know best what is right for them blah blah blah. And not by some pointy-headed bureaucrat far away in Tallahassee who has never been to your school or even heard of it.

"ACHTUNG! Upon reopening in August, all school boards and charter school governing boards must open brick and mortar schools at least five days per week for all students, subject to advice and orders of the Florida Department of Health, local departments of health, Executive Order 20-149 and subsequent executive orders," the order reads.

Holy Beejezus. Sounds like something only the Reichpublican Party could come up with. Even Hitler would have blushed at something this authoritarian. (OK, I'll fess up to adding the "ACHTUNG!&quot

[keithbvadu2]

12. Mandatory school 'COVID party' from the Guv.

Mandatory school 'COVID party' from the Guv.
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FLA teen dies after RWNJ mom takes her to church 'COVID party' & gives her Trump approved drug

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100213706655

[Zorro]

13. Wonder if they will require both mandatory attendance and signed waivers

so parents can't sue the school district if their kid contracts Covid.

That would be the Republican way.

[More_Cowbell]

14. I'm guessing that a lot of teachers will quit

Florida is 46th out of the 51 states and D.C. for teacher pay.

[SergeStorms]

15. Florida politicians are just compounding their stupidity.

They're setting up a perfect environment for the virus to mutate and seriously attack children with deadly effect. Not only that, the kids will be carrying that virus home with them, putting entire families in harms way. This is certainly not going to end well.

But hey, Trump (and the cancerous tumor on his butt he's named 'DeSantis') want us all to get used to it, and die in dignity for IQ45.

[ouija]

17. Que

The teacher’s union lawsuits

[Sancho]

18. Corcoran is a vain politician and has no experience in education...

...I've met him, and he's really a puppet of DeSatan. He's just interested in destroying the public schools.

We are career educators (my wife just retired in June after 41 years - I'm still going). This will not end well. In Florida, there are unions and collective bargaining agreements. It is not clear yet what will happen.

The universities will move to online teaching, but it's just not possible for all the K-12 kids. The experiment for the last 2 months of last spring was a mess. Half the kids never got online, there were no tools or curriculums designed for online learning, etc.

Meanwhile, there is NO TESTING AND TRACING!

[sarge43]

19. First, they came for the elderly ... n/t

[mackdaddy]

20. Republican Theme song: "Live and Let Die!"

[iscooterliberally]

21. I'll bet the Fl governor's mansion stays closed to public tours though. n/t

[Javaman]

22. just cut off florida and push it into the ocean.