OVIEDO, Fla. — The Seminole County school district said it may enforce stricter guidelines at any remaining playoff games after a video showed students crowded together at a football game on Friday night.
The video also shows many students who were not properly wearing masks.
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Channel 9 noticed that the crowd at the Oviedo High School versus Hagerty High School football game was not practicing social distancing.
The Hagerty-Oviedo game is always a big rivalry that brings out fans. But while the stadium only allowed for 50% capacity, Channel 9 found the majority of that capacity huddled in the student sections of the stadium.
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There wasn’t much social distancing, and many of the students either were not wearing a mask or not wearing them properly.
In an email, communications officer Michael Lawrence said, “we recognize this has been a challenge enforcing in our student sections especially in a rivalry playoff game such as the one that occurred Friday night between Hagerty and Oviedo high schools.”
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The district said administrators and law enforcement were on hand to provide warnings and politely request compliance of the guidelines throughout the game.
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