Thursday, July 30, 2020

Parson backs Springfield Public Schools' plan to reopen, appears ready to back any plan anyone comes up with

Gov. Mike Parson, (the gray-haired masked person in the News-Leader photo) following a meeting with Superintendent John Jungmann and other district officials Wednesday, backed Springfield Public Schools' plan to reopen with a combination of in-person and virtual learning, according to a page-one article in today's Springfield News-Leader.

The Springfield plan, which provides two days of in-person schooling and three days of virtual learning per week, with half of the students attending in-person Mondays and Tuesdays and the other half on Thursdays and Fridays, has received growing opposition.

The district is also requiring all students to wear masks.









Parson offered the following quote to the News-Leader:

"I'm confident in the administrators across this state, I'm confident in the school boards that are around here," he said. "They got elected to make decisions for their communities and they're going to know what best suits their communities."
It appears likely Parson will have the same comment about all Missouri school districts' plans.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Perfect, now he is not responsible if something happens with local plan. That is ok, because only local schools can really know what is going on if, big if, local health departments are up to speed with information and rapid testing. BEst bet is to do "pool testing" as designed by Michigan State University where samples are pooled into one test and using a matrix to isolate possible number of infected people. Efficient and more rapid as two actual lab sample will cover 100 people. Get on board with science and stop being stupid America.