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Goal: Renew the bay-link program for the second semester of 2020-2021 school year at bay district schools, until a COVID-19 vaccine has been available to the public and 85% of bay county has been vaccinated.
Description: Bill Husfelt announced on December 4, 2020 that Bay District Schools would be cancelling the Bay Link program on January 18th, 2021.
Bay-link, perhaps one of the most consequential educational programs provided to this county, helped many high-risk families to protect their loved ones and saved many lives in the process. We the people believe that all lives deserve to have integrity and respect, and that the preservation of that life must be the highest priority especially during the pandemic.
Cutting off bay-link for its current users would change their lives drastically. If students are forced to switch to Florida Virtual, some would no longer have access to certain AP or IB college programs they need to take to reduce college costs. Others may not have the option to homeschool since their parents have to work long hours to make a living. Thus, what ends up happening is that these students get moved back into crowded schools, increasing the likelihood of infection and threatening the lives of students, teachers and their families.
Statistics have consistently shown the United States has failed in comparison with the other parts of the world to deal with the spread of COVID-19 due to lack of a concrete and consistent plan to limit its spread. Instead of this plan, what we see are state and local leaders who are unwilling to sacrifice short term economic prosperity for less deaths.
Despite experts also warning that reopening early and essentially, "going around in circles" is causing greater long-term economic damage and more deaths in the process, officials insist to do so. If infection rates are not controlled within the county below a certain level, COVID-19 will be even more lethal. Right now Bay County ICU's are at 86% capacity. If the cases keep ticking up, many of our loved ones will die from hospital capacity issues.
The time to protest for our lives, the lives of our fellow students, teachers and family members is now. Do not let them treat the death of your friends and family as a statistic. Make a difference, fight for their lives and yours. Sign the petition now!
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Updates
December 7, 2020
The silence from the district office is deafening. I am currently compiling all your stories to present as a formal complaint.
December 7, 2020
The momentum is undeniable now. Officials are finally starting to notice the pressure.
Reached 100 supporters
December 7, 2020
46 Comments
High risk students and students with high risk family members need bay link to continue since the other options available might not work for them. They might be a minority group but their lives are as important as anybody else. Spread love and kindness by caring about others even if they are the minority group.
It is incredibly important that both students and parents have the options to protect their family during this crisis, once again Bill husfelt forfeits safety and progress in favor of a traditional school system that no longer works. I am now 21 years old have graduated and my education has suffered greatly under the bay county school system. I don’t want this for the younger students that are now not only fighting for their education but also their lives.
Baylink should stay because I don't want to have more of a chance of getting sick and not being able to work or get the other people in my house sick who could possibly die. It would also be really hard to transition back to the classroom in the middle of the year.
There are so many factors that were never looked in to. Not once did they try to continue to train the teachers on how to use canvas properly. If students have to quarantine, they can't get proper instruction (if needed) and will continue to fail. Never figured in the fact of support staff (paraprofessionals, bus drivers, ect..) have also decreased that will need more to be rehired. The district as a whole is no where near ready to drop bay link.
This should not be a question. Keeping baylink means keeping a safe way of education for at-risk families. The health of students and their families should always come first. For students who have courses that cannot be taken through Bay Virtual or homeschool, getting rid of baylink would be getting rid of all of the hard work they have been putting in through their curriculums. IB students who just want to stay safe would either have to take the risk of having their loved ones become sick (or even themselves), or drop out of the program they have put so much work towards. To destroy a program helping hundreds, if not thousands, or students just because ratings of a select few may be lowering is selfish and unacceptable.
Baylink needs to stay!
There is a pandemic going on we don’t need everyone at school
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Status: Closed — this petition is no longer accepting signatures.
Final supporters
Goal: Renew the bay-link program for the second semester of 2020-2021 school year at bay district schools, until a COVID-19 vaccine has been available to the public and 85% of bay county has been vaccinated.
Description: Bill Husfelt announced on December 4, 2020 that Bay District Schools would be cancelling the Bay Link program on January 18th, 2021.
Bay-link, perhaps one of the most consequential educational programs provided to this county, helped many high-risk families to protect their loved ones and saved many lives in the process. We the people believe that all lives deserve to have integrity and respect, and that the preservation of that life must be the highest priority especially during the pandemic.
Cutting off bay-link for its current users would change their lives drastically. If students are forced to switch to Florida Virtual, some would no longer have access to certain AP or IB college programs they need to take to reduce college costs. Others may not have the option to homeschool since their parents have to work long hours to make a living. Thus, what ends up happening is that these students get moved back into crowded schools, increasing the likelihood of infection and threatening the lives of students, teachers and their families.
Statistics have consistently shown the United States has failed in comparison with the other parts of the world to deal with the spread of COVID-19 due to lack of a concrete and consistent plan to limit its spread. Instead of this plan, what we see are state and local leaders who are unwilling to sacrifice short term economic prosperity for less deaths.
Despite experts also warning that reopening early and essentially, "going around in circles" is causing greater long-term economic damage and more deaths in the process, officials insist to do so. If infection rates are not controlled within the county below a certain level, COVID-19 will be even more lethal. Right now Bay County ICU's are at 86% capacity. If the cases keep ticking up, many of our loved ones will die from hospital capacity issues.
The time to protest for our lives, the lives of our fellow students, teachers and family members is now. Do not let them treat the death of your friends and family as a statistic. Make a difference, fight for their lives and yours. Sign the petition now!
Updates
December 7, 2020
The silence from the district office is deafening. I am currently compiling all your stories to present as a formal complaint.
December 7, 2020
The momentum is undeniable now. Officials are finally starting to notice the pressure.
Reached 100 supporters
December 7, 2020
46 Comments
If I bring covid home to my high risk family, they will die. I need baylink to literally save my family’s life.
High risk students and students with high risk family members need bay link to continue since the other options available might not work for them. They might be a minority group but their lives are as important as anybody else. Spread love and kindness by caring about others even if they are the minority group.
It is incredibly important that both students and parents have the options to protect their family during this crisis, once again Bill husfelt forfeits safety and progress in favor of a traditional school system that no longer works. I am now 21 years old have graduated and my education has suffered greatly under the bay county school system. I don’t want this for the younger students that are now not only fighting for their education but also their lives.
Baylink should stay because I don't want to have more of a chance of getting sick and not being able to work or get the other people in my house sick who could possibly die. It would also be really hard to transition back to the classroom in the middle of the year.
There are so many factors that were never looked in to. Not once did they try to continue to train the teachers on how to use canvas properly. If students have to quarantine, they can't get proper instruction (if needed) and will continue to fail. Never figured in the fact of support staff (paraprofessionals, bus drivers, ect..) have also decreased that will need more to be rehired. The district as a whole is no where near ready to drop bay link.
This should not be a question. Keeping baylink means keeping a safe way of education for at-risk families. The health of students and their families should always come first. For students who have courses that cannot be taken through Bay Virtual or homeschool, getting rid of baylink would be getting rid of all of the hard work they have been putting in through their curriculums. IB students who just want to stay safe would either have to take the risk of having their loved ones become sick (or even themselves), or drop out of the program they have put so much work towards. To destroy a program helping hundreds, if not thousands, or students just because ratings of a select few may be lowering is selfish and unacceptable.
Baylink needs to stay!
There is a pandemic going on we don’t need everyone at school
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If I bring covid home to my high risk family, they will die. I need baylink to literally save my family’s life.