And he recounts how “Florida faces an unprecedented rise in COVID-19, which can spread from human through respiratory transmission and spreads easily from person to person, even when an infected person shows no symptoms of the disease.” .
The lawsuit calls for the state government to desist from “unnecessarily and unconstitutionally forcing millions of students and employees of public schools to appear in physical schools.”
“We all want to reopen schools,” the lawsuit continued. “But we don’t want to start teaching in person to deal with an explosion of cases and diseases and then be forced to return to distance education.”
On July 6, Education Commissioner Richard Corcoran issued an order to reopen schools in August, sparking a flurry of criticism from parents, teachers, and medical specialists, including the Center for Infectious Disease Control.
However, the Florida Department of Education responded to the lawsuit and ensures that “the order does not issue new directives requiring schools to open, but only reiterates the state law, which requires schools to operate 180 days a year” Taryn Fenske, a spokeswoman for the state authority, wrote in a statement.
He added: “The order includes funds for school districts and schools to educate in innovative ways, as long as they continue to provide all students, especially at-risk students, with an education regardless of the learning option they choose, he wrote. “
With about 10,000 new cases and around 2,000 in Miami-Dade per day, Florida is among the three most infected states, along with California and Texas.
Meanwhile, Miami-Dade Public Schools superintendent Alberto Carvalho reiterated that “as long as cases continue to increase at the current rate, schools will not reopen” in his school district.
In order to continue the studies in August, when the new school year is supposed to start, both the Miami-Dade and neighboring Broward County school authorities propose to continue teaching online, as long as the contagion rates do not drop.
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