After reopening announcements from all three school districts in Madison County, health professionals and local leaders weighed in on the decision.
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New at six -- after the announcement from all three school districts in madison county - health professionals and local leaders weighed in on the decision.
Waay 31's sophia borrelli is live in downtown huntsville with what they had to say.
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Health officials said it's our responsibility as a community to stop the spread of the virus so educators don't have to worry about our children's education and the virus at the same time.
Dr. pam hudson, ceo crestwood medical center: "our responsibility as a community is to knock down the spike and get us to where we have this under control so that our school officials don't have the distraction of trying to deal with what's happening in the community."
Crestwood medical center ceo pam hudson said while the school districts did not ask her opinion about sending children back to school.
She thinks starting a school year during a spike in coronavirus cases is tricky.
Huntsville mayor tommy battle said the districts talked with state's department of public health about the decision.
Tommy battle, city of huntsville mayor: "this is a tough one.
Gosh, everybody wants school to go back.
We want to go back to normal.
We want to e normal, but unfortunately we are not in normal times so, we're having to adapt, we're having to evolve.
We're evolving our schools to where we can actually do education, but we're going to have to do it from the homes for a little while."
Battle said as much as he would like to move forward and have our children in school - this school year cannot start that way.
Tommy battle, city of huntsville mayor: "we're evolving our education so that we can do education online, but we're adapting to the current conditions that are out there because the first time that we drop everyone off and we put the back in school and then we a spike and then we have a cluster spike in a school, we're going to lose the confidence of the public on how we can safely educate our children."
Battle says he wants children to get an education - but safety is the most important part of returning to traditional classrooms. live in huntsville - sophia borrelli waay 31
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