Kentucky governor pleads with schools to delay in-person instruction as coronavirus cases climb

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NBC News
Aug. 13, 2020, 8:41 AM EDT
By Ben Kesslen

Gov. Andy Beshear said the state recorded its highest number of new coronavirus cases on Wednesday, and in-person instruction remains unsafe.

Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear pleaded with schools on Wednesday not to defy his order to delay in-person instruction until Sept. 28 as coronavirus cases in the state continue to climb.

While announcing the state’s highest single-day total of new COVID-19 cases in a press conference, Beshear said he doesn’t “believe that we gamble or experiment with our kids."

"While we are desperate to get our kids back, I also want it to work," he said.

The governor announced a delay to in-person instruction on Monday, citing an uptick in cases in children among other reasons.

"In my very core, I want us to get back to in-person instruction, but to ask our kids to go in with all our teachers and faculty at a time when it's not safe, it's something that we can't ask of them, and I'm not willing to," Beshear said earlier this week, according to the Courier-Journal.

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1. Beshear has to place all the outcome on all GOP'ers including McConnel for what will

be a heavy cost on kids, families and teachers. Hard to hard tombstones in grave yards and body bags in refrigerated trailers.

If I was Beshear, I be holding up all the local papers obit pages at every press conference and make it clear who caused these deaths

Time for niceties to be over