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of these teachers facing now and there is actually a state

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mandated order for the schools to go back true yes there is a

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state mandated order from our commissioner...and from the governor out here

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...state of florida but let me tell you what were up against...the epicenter of what's going on

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with corona virus we have a positively rate that is double-digit in the

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teens we also haveyou bits that continue to climb and everybody knows that florida

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has not done a very good job at handling the virus itself and

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our shame on us as adults...on...as part

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of their responsibility listen I don't know any teacher that doesn't want to go back to work and

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...seal trying...theme...classroom bandwidth is ready to go backcounselors

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are ready to go back to our entire educational villages radio back cafeteria workers

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...bus drivers and secretaries but we want to do it safely we want to have a plan if

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we'd had no national plan we had no state-wide

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...everybody's been left to their own devices that is going to get people

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...injured and killed in our schools with this virus the day the

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schools shut down should not the number one priority have

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been the minute you shut those doors to start planning for how you were going to

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...back up instead of scrambling around in the fire drill now to do this you're,

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you're absolutely right our organization the american federation of teachers with the

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earth organization to come out with a national planand,

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we've gotten this plan not...to our congress

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...to our administration nor the state government here in the state of florida we need

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...operational plan to give us some guidelines and benchmarks and, some things that we need to go

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back but in the...are public health issues

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...already told us let's have a fourteen day decline in a particular area and then let's get

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...positively rate...that's open up our

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schools let's see what happens but we don't want to be a petri dish for the world to figure this out

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and, then have casualties of war this is unfortunate for us we have a president that

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...declare war on this virus so

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...treated as such we've got to go...with a...we've got to

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...pe we've got bundy is going to...us more money to educate our kids

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...had ever before and we all know and you say

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teachers are actually dipping into their own pocket to come up with personal protection equipment

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we're talking about shower curtains were talking about well there's

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...talk about anything they could find to try and protect themselves through?

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They are they wanted to schools that were built for social interaction not social distancing so now

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we're having to...the schools without the funding they're putting up shower curtains...people

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are feeling wheels here in the state of florida they're putting at an alarming rate

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...because...have...abilities that they have underlying issues...

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teacher that goes home to sit here or another child that may have some underlying

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issues this is not there to where we want to go and we want to take children yes we hear about the

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...and yes we care about their mental stability...we also care about them being

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here on your this-is life-or-death because forty three thousand cases of

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...have happened with kids under eighteen in this...that's not an si the

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insignificant...that you're actually suing the governor and you're doing this for a

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purpose trying to force a plan to be put in place correct yes we simply

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what schools...open we want to do...safely and our governor

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...our commission of education have said no matter what the hell

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hot water you have to open up our schools and brick and mortar all present

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...students and in my...in

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our county hillsborough county we're fighting hard against...simply because we don't have

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the powers under control this turn our attention to the public health system and let's turn our attention

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eight out of the business of politics and deal with this with some recent compassion

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we're talking about teachers...your...a bus drivers and kids for god's sake

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two point eight million children...we love each and every one of them...every one of them

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hasn't in valuable purpose in this life and...to make us a better better people

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...american democracy depends on our public schools being right.