As many of you may be aware, there's going to be a total solar eclipse on Monday, April 8th. It won't be total in all states but it will be visible and close to total in the U.S. We got an email yesterday from the Science supervisor that warned us not to view the eclipse with our students (in my state the eclipse will begin ~2:08 pm) because we don't have the special glasses that are needed to view a solar eclipse safely. It went on to warn us that it's a huge liability if the kids look up at the sun. We dismiss at 2:48 pm, HOW do I prevent my students from looking UP at the sun? If we warn them NOT to look then sure as shit they are gonna look. There are some rumblings of a push to make it an early dismissal but that's extremely doubtful. I teach 5th grade and we just wrapped up a unit on the solar system where we discussed eclipses etc, so most of my kids are aware it's happening.
I'm wondering how other districts/states are handling this ..