Miami-Dade County Public Schools to begin school year online only and later Aug. 31 date

[mia]

“We are ever-cognizant that many families have already begun planning for a return to schooling through their preferred model for Stage II,” said Miami-Dade Schools Superintendent Alberto Carvalho. “However, in light of the viral surge in our community, we believe it is in the best interest of our students and employees to delay the return to the schoolhouse and commence the 2020-2021 school year from a distance.”

The school district will decide by Sept. 30 whether conditions allow for the school district to reopen Oct. 5.

If it’s safe, the district will reopen schools with social distancing and mandatory masks for those who wish to send their children to school. Carvalho said the district could handle accommodating students in the schoolhouse and those who wish to continue learning online.

https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/education/article244544787.html

The decision by Miami-Dade Schools to teach only remotely follows similar decisions by Broward and Monroe public school districts.

[soothsayer]

1. If Florida started to take it seriously today and locked down like ny

They’d still need 100 days to bend the curve to where *maybe* they could open schools (assuming they also put in place robust testing/tracing/isolating/monitoring measures).

But they won’t do that so.... I don’t see schools reopening safely this year there. Or maybe anywhere.