Read or Share this story: https://www.pnj.com/story/news/2020/03/13/florida-department-education-orders-schools-close-over-coronavirus/5046470002/ PENSACOLA, Fla. (WKRG) — In attempt to prevent to the spread of COVID-19, the Escambia County School District will take the following preventative measures to restrict students and employees traveling within and out of its district:—Effective immediately, all out-of-state travel for both students and staff members is suspended for the remainder of the school year.— All student and staff in-state travel is suspended for the next 30 days.— All student field trips will be suspended for a period of 30 days, and future requests will be evaluated after that time.Escambia County School District Superintendent Malcolm Thomas announced the decision Thursday afternoon. and let the healthy or lightly infected 80 percent carry on with their normal lives!The virus will not survive on a hard surface for 14 days anyway while students are out, so essentially the school will rid itself of any contamination during the absence.So while a “deep clean” of schools puts people at ease, it’s a pointless thing to do while students are out.It’s much more important to disinfect all hard surfaces and doorknobs at schools at the end of each school day WHILE students and staff are there, which I have stated multiple times in previous posts.Fairly certain COVID-19 has been shown to survive on plastic and stainless steel for up to 3 days and copper for up to 4 days. All athletic events are canceled during the time period.Private school Escambia Academy has extended spring break until March 30. “We are continuing to monitor COVID-19, and I encourage all Floridians to remain informed and take the necessary precautions that have been issued by the CDC.” As of Friday evening, the Florida Department of Health had identified 45 Florida residents and six non-residents who had tested positive for COVID-19. (4) Keep it clean. She would have been 15 today... onally, Black Lives Matter art as well as murals and graffiti by protesters and professional artists began popping up. Thomas emphasized he does not want to close schools until it’s deemed necessary.
This is a great example of people making uneducated assumptions and ignorant choices due to a lack of knowledge and proper research.Well I’ve been saying that Malcolm should have gotten out in front of this and warned parents of what would most likely be happening…but he didn’t as usual.Unless it magically goes away and there are no cases in Escambia County (which is not going to happen), then it’s very likely that Escambia public schools will go to online classes for the remainder of the school year, just as universities have done.It will not be ideal for anyone obviously, but this is unprecedented and it is going to get much worse in the U.S. and Florida before it gets better.Of course Malcolm Thomas should be preparing students and parents and teachers for that inevitability, but he’s reactive and not proactive.So if you have kids in public schools, don’t be surprised when classes go online and don’t be surprised when you don’t hear it from the superintendent until the very last minute.Florida Dept of Education made this extension to Spring Break.Wondering how the State DOE will handle the Non-Instructional personnel?Agree that the extra week out will help contain this virus yet wonder how deeply the State Dept of Ed considered the entire picture?It may just be me and my suspicious nature, but I feel there is more to this than they are telling us..Heather talked about two weeks and said “what are the plans?”It literally talked about that the story in the quote from malcolm thomasWhat about Private schools? ESCAMBIA COUNTY, Fla. (WALA) -- Escambia County public schools superintendent Malcolm Thomas has announced his school district's plans and policies related to concerns about coronavirus. (6) Limit your comments to the subject in this story only, and limit comments to 300 words or less.
The superintendent of the Escambia County School District in Escambia County, FL closed down four schools Tuesday due to severe weather damage. It's OK to disagree with someone's ideas, but personal attacks, insults, threats, hate speech, advocating violence and other violations can result in a ban. AISA activities and field trips are postponed until April 6.There are no plans because the whole thing makes no sense. We know it won’t be at the same level, but we would do the best we can.”All schools are completely closed with no students or staff on campus the week of March 23. Because residents’ families haven’t been able to visit out of precauCaylee died at the age of 2 in 2008. Aug. 8, 2020, 7 a.m. It’s assinine to put school personnel at risk disinfecting the schools and buses when the virus wouldn’t survive until the resumption of school anyways. Aug. 9, 2020, 3:03 p.m. may not appear right away until they are approved by a moderator. Click here to view the Escambia County COVID-19 Dashboard. Escambia County School District Superintendent Malcolm Thomas told the News Journal that all of the schools in his district would also close for spring break next week and would remained closed … Aug. 9, 2020, 12:28 p.m. Copyright 2020 Nexstar Broadcasting, Inc. All rights reserved.