Seminole County schools sends out survey to parents for feedback on reopening classrooms

SEMINOLE COUNTY, Fla. — Seminole County Public Schools officials are once again asking parents for help to determine how they should reopen the county’s schools.

A 10-question survey was sent out Thursday by email, which includes giving parents an option to enroll in virtual school. 

Officials said if you choose the virtual option and decide to send them back to the classroom later, your child will not lose their seat.

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Seminole County mother Laura Kiffer said she still doesn’t know if she will send her kids back to the school in the fall.

“I’m not sure if I’m ready to have them exposed to kids who may not know how to be around other kids just yet,” she said.

Questions included in the survey range from whether there be daily checks for illness to the use of masks and whether students should do fewer classroom changes during the day.

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"We kind of want our families to provide us with some feedback and recommendations on what they will feel comfortable with and what they feel we should do moving forward so that our school board and our reopening committee can gather that feedback and tie it in to some of the preliminary plans we put together," SCPS communications officer Michael Lawrence said.

District officials said they hope to reopen schools Aug. 10, but because of the rising number of COVID-19 cases in Seminole County among young people, they are not ruling out starting off the year in distance learning.

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