@raum They are functioning under the belief that children don’t get as sick and don’t shed as much virus, so they don’t spread the virus as much as adults. They have been looking at other countries, and that day care was never closed in Florida, I assume other states had day care open also this entire time. Our camps are also allowed to be open this summer in Florida, I have no idea how many are open.
I assume no student is forced to go to in-person school. I heard that Orlando has massive numbers of students registering for online education, I don’t know if it is just elementary or K-12, it wasn’t clear to me in the report I saw. I assume other counties have a similar option.
To be clear, the Orlando program I speak of is not what happened for covid where teachers who usually teach in schools went to distance learning, this is a ten year old program developed specifically for home schooling that has the same curriculum as the school district and children are able to go at their own pace. The home school program has a completely separate registration. Honestly, I don’t see the whole state could not use Orlando’s online education if other parts of the state don’t have it. I can’t see why the curriculum would be so different that it wouldn’t suffice for all students. Home school parents can always add more courses if they want from a private program.
I’m not defending anything, just telling you what I see on local news.
If I had kids I would keep mine home if I could. I would wait for more information. I’m sure there are a lot of parents who will be putting their kids in school, just like their kids are in day care.
I wish we the public were given more information from the contact tracing being done. We find out about the over 150 people who are positive from the Orlando bar, but I want way more info than that. I want to know cases traced back to all sorts of places and activities.