Speak Up: IRSD hears from parent about reopening schools

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A movement within the Indian River School District board of education and the community is saying enough is enough, that it’s time to move forward and get students back in classrooms full time. “We continue to find ways to keep school closed and permanently damage our children of this great state. We need to focus on and find ways to open the schools back up full time,” said Stacy Hennigan in her presentation during the Monday.

  • Amazing that so many are willing to sacrifice their children by putting them back into a school building for six to seven hours a day, after sending them there in buses, to sit in classrooms of 30 children from 5 to 18 and one teacher. Not to mention limited bathrooms, hallways that can’t be cleaned and sanitized constantly, eating at their desks which are only a few feet apart in a small classroom or a lunchroom, which requires them to remove their masks. But, yeah, you go with that. — Victoria M. Olds
  • Yet the Catholic and charter schools have been able to overcome your “supposed” obstacles, so maybe there’s another dynamic going on that you are overlooking, such as the teachers’ union. — Dennis Kirkwood
  • Those schools are private. State schools don’t have enough funds, but you expect them to bleach down bathrooms every hour and Plexiglas everywhere? Yes, I want back to normal, but what does that even mean anymore? Evolve or die. School isn’t day care, by the way. — Alexis White
  • God forbid, wanting to be safe for yourself and others at work. The craziness. — Peter Rispoli
  • Sacrifice? What’s being “sacrificed” is their education and mental foundation. All of the “science” shows there is no reason for the students not to be in school! Enough already! — Eileen Maloney Mooney
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