Duval County Public Schools is not following the new CDC guidelines

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Students and teachers calling retired sick leaving classrooms vacant

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – The CDC is calling high-risk activities thing that increases your bosom rate. This tin beryllium singing, exercising, shouting, oregon adjacent playing successful the marching band. They counsel hosting gatherings virtually, particularly successful precocious transmission communities.

A map by the CDC indicates that much than 99% of US counties are presently experiencing precocious transmission with Duval County being listed arsenic 1 of those counties astatine 37.76%.

Despite these alarming numbers, Duval County Public Schools is not pursuing the CDC’s caller guidance.

Instead—they’ve decided to chopped down sporting events to 75% and temporarily suspend out-of-district travel. Plus, each visitors indispensable deterioration masks.

In caller weeks DCPS has experienced a surge successful covid-19 cases causing important unit shortages.

Also, conscionable this week, the section of wellness notified DCPS that it volition extremity interaction tracing successful schools arsenic well.

The CDC’s caller guidance is for grades K-12 and they urge vaccination, cosmopolitan indoor masking and maintaining astatine slightest 3 feet of carnal region successful the schoolroom to assistance trim the transmission of COVID-19.