Duval County schools are preparing for the partial solar eclipse that will happen in Jacksonville on Monday.
New Insider Deals are here, and you’re going to love them!– Parents received permission slips to choose how their students would view the solar eclipse on Monday.
Some schools plan to have an eclipse viewing event. Those students would need a signed permission slip to participate in the event.Schools that are not offering a viewing event are giving parents the option to either pick up their child before or after the eclipse... or they have the option to keep their child home from school for an excused absence.Beaufort said she’s keeping her kids home on Monday as a precaution. She’s also thankful the district gave parents a choice on what to do that day.
Megan Whitaker has a 7th and 9th grader enrolled in Duval County schools. She was still weighing her options on Thursday but said she wasn’t planning on keeping them home. “I think it’s important they need to go to school. I guess if practices after school are canceled, we’ll decide what to do then. But they’ll go to school, and then we’ll see what to do with them after,” Whitaker said.
Whitaker and Beaufort were taking the opportunity to ensure their kids knew about the dangers of looking at the sun during an eclipse.“I let them know that it’s about the earth rotating and the sun passing each other at one time and kind of give them some inspiration or education of what’s going on,” Beaufort said.
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