Florida Education Commissioner Richard Corcoran (R) issued an executive order on Monday requiring all schools in the state to reopen for in-person instruction in the upcoming academic year, even as coronavirus cases in the state climb unabated.
So is the state government supplying the money necessary to make the adjustments necessary for full-time in school learning this fall?
Is the state government even supplying the guidelines of how to open this fall?
This isnât going to end well for them.
More fresh thinking by the GOP.
I would lay money on the answers being no and no. They might come up with guidelines, which will inevitably be vague and impractical, but I donât think the state government will provide any funding. Itâs all going to be on the schools and on the teachers.
Welcome to America.
Trumpian strategy of doubling down, then, when it fails, double-down again. Rinse, repeat, until voted out of office.
Good plan, Ron.
Agreed. The questions were more rhetorical than anything. 
What the executive order should also specify is that districts should equally be able to support parents that decide that they want distance learning will also be supported and that accommodations be made for teachers/support staff that are at risk. They wonât be able to do that either because that wonât be funded either.
Florida was rated the nationâs 13th- best state based on all those areas combined, and powered by its high rankings for education , fiscal stability (second) and the economy (ninth). ⌠3 in the overall category of education , with the No. 1 ranking for higher education and ranking of 27th for its K-12 schools.
Guess the young ones are expendable. granted there immune system is tougher but they can help spread it like a wildfire.
soon to be regretted without responsibility.
ThanksâŚI also suspect that there are many ways in which what is implied in this headline does not happen.
Parents love kids everywhere.
In all the states.
This is about kissing tRump ass. Thatâs the concern of these governors-not the children. Common sense and critical thinking dictates all they have to do is look at the disaster the re-opening of business has created. Business that opened because of tRumps wisdom (I mean that with the upmost sarcasm) to see that this is a disaster waiting to happen. Itâs up to the parents now to take the state to court to secure the health and safety of their children Also, in this fight are teachers and others who will be ordered to spend the day with children who are know to be walking talking incubators of germs and viruses under normal circumstances. Parents in Red States-itâs up to you. The choice is your children or tRump. But there is an option of tRumps they can follow:
Itâs not as draconian as it sounds. The district I work for has provided three options for parents:
1 - Regular classroom instruction with full services including food service and busing.
2 - Direct computer instruction at home during school hours. (Think Zoom)
3 - Virtual instruction on your own schedule.
Of course the first option could be a nightmare depending on the level of infection in the county. I believe they fervently hope that no more than a third of parents choose the first option.
And here I thought it was the GOP platform to allow and encourage local control of schools, and damn those Big Gubbmint Demon-crats who wanna control everything from the capitol stepsâŚ
Whatâs the punishment if (when?) a school district says âyeahâŚnopeâ?
The common denominator of just about all the stories post-COVID outbreak is a near total GOP sycophancy to Trump.
It may very well be something he has on each and every Republican.
It may very well be thatâhaving alienated everyone but the baseâthe base is all they have.
When exactly did The Republican Party turn into a death cult?
Teach at elementary school. District does not have a big population, but covers a large rural area. Some of the issues our staff and superintendent looking at: how to safely transport kids on the bus, feed, keep school clean, afford daily PPE? Right now, I donât think we could get all staff to wear masks. State DPI has come up w a 80 page plan. Have left many decisions up to school districts. Think it is a situation in flux. Agree w Joshâs thoughts on âreopeningâ. Flexibility is going to be important.
Trying to score political points by holding children at gunpoint biologically speaking? Is this finally âthe showâ of the Republican Party? As if the message wasnât already clear. School is necessary, and it is a challenging problem how to proceed safely. But note the Republican Partyâs response to the pandemic - they have no plan and offer no leadership. Now, itâs time to remove all of them from positions of authority as they have demonstrated they collectively have nothing useful to offer this Nation.
We are having those options as well. Sending surveys out for parent input as well. Think we are probably going to have some combo of distance learning, and modified classroom. Trying to imagine how to teach k-5 kids to social distance!
Iâve also gotta wonder where theyâre gonna get the personnel to sustain any of these âopenings:â as qualified teachers, inadequately protected nurses and doctors, EMS workers and so on, get sick, die, are debilitated or drop out of the work force from burn out, where are their soon to be needed replacements going to come from?
It takes a significant investment of training and time to produce these people and Donnieâs already shown he doesnât want folks from overseas moving here and taking these jobs.
