Students head back to class across Clay County this morning

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Students instrumentality to schoolhouse successful Clay County.

CLAY COUNTY, Fla. – Somewhere betwixt 38,000 and 40,000 students volition instrumentality to in-person learning successful Clay County nationalist schools, portion astatine slightest 300 students volition larn done Clay Virtual Academy afloat time.

The instrumentality comes arsenic the percent positivity complaint of COVID-19 successful the region is astatine 27.6%. That’s astir 675 caller cases successful the past week for each 100,000 radical successful the county.

A fig of information measures are successful spot for students and staff, but students volition not beryllium required to deterioration masks.

Justin Hilley, a begetter with 4th and 5th graders astatine Fleming Island Elementary School, said helium does not person a batch of concerns heading into this schoolhouse year.

“A batch of the concerns and hiccups were ironed retired past twelvemonth erstwhile we started getting everything backmost into ceramic and mortar,” Hilley said. “Honestly, going into this year, I’m not that concerned.”

Students instrumentality to schoolhouse successful Clay County. (WJXT)

Many of the information measures are a continuation from past year.

Superintendent David Broskie said 1 extremity is to maximize cafeteria space. Students volition beryllium pre-screened and electrostatic sprayers volition beryllium utilized for specialized cleaning.

The Clay schoolhouse district’s back-to-school program goes implicit a batch including however students get astatine school: “Schools volition make plans to stagger the accomplishment and dismissal of students to support societal distancing.”

But Clay is not bucking the authorities and instituting a disguise mandate successful the schoolroom similar different schoolhouse districts successful Florida. The disguise contented boiled implicit successful the latest schoolhouse committee meeting.

News4Jax asked Superintendent David Broskie astir the information of Clay schools erstwhile helium joined “The Morning Show.”

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“Everything from individualized schoolhouse plans, align with their unsocial circumstances of each schoolhouse site,” helium said. “A monitored campus. Maximizing cafeteria space, pre-screening of students. Electrostatic sprayers and the database spell connected and on.”

On the archetypal day, determination are bound to beryllium a batch of questions and confusion. Anyone with issues concerning their child’s autobus oregon its schedule, the territory has acceptable up a hotline astatine 904-336-0001.