Over 10,000 students in Florida school district isolated or quarantined a week into school year

[Jilly_in_VA]

Just a week into the school year, over 10,000 students and staff in the Hillsborough County Public Schools district in Florida have been isolated or quarantined as districts across the state grapple with COVID-19.

Hillsborough is the seventh-largest school district in the U.S., with more than 213,000 students. As of Wednesday, 10,384 students and 338 staffers are isolated or under quarantine, the district told ABC News.

In total, there were 1,805 COVID-19 cases among students and staff, according to the Tampa-area district's COVID-19 dashboard.

The district is requiring masks for students, but parents can opt their children out. To date, at least 28,000 parents have opted out, district officials told ABC News.

https://abcnews.go.com/US/8000-students-florida-school-district-isolated-quarantined-week/story?id=79517679
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[voteearlyvoteoften]

1. My daughter in law teaches elementary school in FL

She sent text last night that Covid is running like wildfire through her school. Kids are @ 50% masked as parents can opt them out.
So with all the exposures half the teachers are quarantined now. Not a great way to start the school year. I’m eligible for my 3rd in @ a month.
Once again I’m looking forward to getting a shot. Who in their right minds would gamble with their own children’s lives. Ugh.

[ScratchCat]

2. I've kept posting in many threads

That we are going to have a catastrophe here in Florida when kids went back to school unmasked. If not for Afganistan, Florida would be the lead story on World news.

[Texaswitchy]

3. The schools will be open and closed so many times .

Why bother to open at all.

[Johnny2X2X]

4. Totally avoidable

We had in person learning for a large portion of Covid because masks work. Without the masks, some children will die. Yes, children fight it off better than adults, but some will not if we're just going to get them all sick.

If they have 200,000 students and half get Covid, they could still have a few dozen student deaths. You're talking about at least 100 to as many as 1,900 hospitalizations of these children if half get Covid. Imagine 1,000 kids in a single school district hospitalized.

I mean, when 1 kid dies in a school district it's a big deal, people take notice, it's in the paper. Imagine if 50 die.