• It’s a month and a half into another unprecedented academic year. Schools have been reporting record numbers of coronavirus cases, and a battle is raging over masks in classrooms.
WMFE’s Amy Green talked with Wekiva High School health teacher Vinek Blanding about how Covid-19 and the politicized debate over masking are impacting students.
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• The actual test positivity rate would be much higher at those schools, because the percentage it’s measured against all students and staff, not just those who were tested.
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• The assistant professor, David Walton, has a PhD in archaeology and taught at Lake-Sumter for six years. On Wednesday, he told me how he learned he was being fired.
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• In just three days this week, at least 523 Lake County students and 121 staff tested positive. Nearly 3,000 were quarantined.
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• The Volusia County board approved its mask mandate Tuesday night.
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• The district also has a worsening shortage of bus drivers — which has impacted about 15 percent of routes — and prompted a call to middle and high school parents Monday night.
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• Lake County School Board member Kristi Burns pleaded with the others Monday to take the threat to students and staff more seriously.
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