a teen was killed this year while riding an e-scooter<\/a>.<\/p>\nAs currently proposed, the policy would prohibit any elementary, middle and high school student without a license from using an e-bike or scooter on school property. Students also would need a decal from their school before bringing an e-bike or e-scooter onto campus.<\/p>\n
During a work session last week, School Board members said they are open to revisiting the policy in the future after seeing how it works.<\/p>\n
\u201cI always felt like this was just one step we could do as a school district, where we are responsible for releasing 350 of these kids in a middle school area zone at 3:30 in the afternoon on our communities,\u201d said School Board member Melissa Byrd. \u201cSo, if this is something we can do to help our communities make them safer until either some of these other things get put in place and things improve, then we can come back and revisit.”<\/p>\n
School Board vice-chair Maria Salamanca said that in her district, some principals have complained about batteries smoking on campus, and generally, many students not knowing rules of the road.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat\u2019s why we did the license, right? They don\u2019t know how to operate it and they\u2019re in the road operating very fast vehicles very dangerously,” Salamanca said. “They don\u2019t know how to yield, they don\u2019t know what the rules are for certain stops, and it is very dangerous.”<\/p>\n
If approved, the policy would be implemented by the upcoming school year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ORLANDO, Fla. \u2014 Members of the Orange County School Board are hosting a public hearing Tuesday to discuss…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":354829,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[4996,2967,274,113,1015,115,1335,139,141,140,277,15849,278],"class_list":["post-354828","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-orlando","tag-app-education","tag-app-public-safety","tag-app-top-stories","tag-education","tag-emma-delamo","tag-news","tag-orange-county","tag-orlando","tag-orlando-headlines","tag-orlando-news","tag-public-safety","tag-school-safety","tag-top-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354828","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=354828"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354828\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/354829"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=354828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=354828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=354828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}