School district releases details of eclipse precautions

Press release from Alachua County Public Schools
ALACHUA COUNTY, Fla. – Alachua County Public Schools will be taking a number of precautions during the upcoming solar eclipse.
Between 1:30 and 4:30 p.m. on Monday, April 8, no outdoor activities will be held at local schools. After-school programs, physical education classes, band and sports practices, and other activities will be held indoors, postponed, or canceled.
Dismissal will be held at the regular times. However, if parents decide to keep their children at home or check them out of school early, those absences/early check-outs will be excused. Standard check-out procedures at the schools will be followed.
Teachers and other school staff will be reminding students throughout the day not to look directly at the sun during the eclipse or at any other time. Bus drivers will also be cautioning riders about looking at the sun.
The district’s precautions are the same as those taken during the solar eclipse in August of 2017, which also fell on the afternoon of a school day.
Phone and email messages are being sent to parents to inform them of the precautions being taken, and the district has set up a website at www.sbac.edu/eclipse2024 with more information, including a document with safety tips and a link to a NASA website that includes a list of vendors for safety-certified glasses and viewing devices (https://science.nasa.gov/eclipses/future-eclipses/eclipse-2024/safety/).
What do they think is really going to happen? This happens all of the time, every couple of years. Why this time is it any different?? I understand warning the kids not to look at the sun, but staying indoors? saying there will be no outdoor activities? or how about absences and early check outs will be automatically excused? Maybe it’s just me, but this is a reoccurrence that changes nothing.
I understand they are keeping the kids indoors because their eyes are not protected. It is difficult to control the students’ curiosity about this kind of thing. My perception is the school district is trying to avoid any legal and safety consequences with parents. The article said all early dismissals and absences will be excused. I opened the link they sent NASA, and I think they follow their guidelines.
Blindly following corrupt government agency guidelines is what brought the COVID disaster on us – $7 Trillion in new debt, massive depression, enormous excess death numbers, and unrestricted censorship campaigns.
The truth is that no part of the eclipse will be visible in FL. This decision is like mandating that kids wear parkas on Monday because there’s a blizzard in Montana.
We are not going to be impacted in any significant way by this solar eclipse. What in the world are these idiots thinking?🤦🏻
No, not even a partial eclipse will be seen in FL. This is just common nonsense.
Oh good grief.
The truth is that no part of the eclipse will be visible in FL. This decision is like mandating that kids wear parkas on Monday because there’s a blizzard in Montana.
Correction, about 50% of the eclipse is visible in FL, kind of like a cloud.