OVIEDO, Fla. — It has been an uneventful summer for 4-year-old Wyatt Franz.

His brother, Owen, will be attending Red Bug Elementary School in Casselberry in August via Seminole Connect, an at-home learning model in which students will follow a school schedule and learn from teachers presenting live in their classroom.

It's an option that wasn't offered to Wyatt.

When it comes to back-to-school options, there aren’t any right now for voluntary pre-K students. Parents must either choose face-to-face learning or decide not to send their children to school.

According to the Florida Office of Early Learning, VPK learning must be done face-to-face. However, parents and guardians are concerned for the health and safety of their children, and some think distance learning should be offered to their children as well.

“It’s like everybody is putting so much focus, so much attention on the K-12 kids," said Seminole County parent Sharon Franz, a mother of two who says her main concern is keeping both her children and others safe.

“There’s no way to social-distance 4-year-olds,” Franz said.

Hoping to change lawmakers's minds, Franz wrote an e-mail to the governor and the Florida House of Representatives.

“As a mother, I cannot justify sending my child into a situation where his life could potentially be at risk when I know that there is a safer means,” she wrote.

“I absolutely think they need to have virtual options for these parents,” said state Rep. Joy Goff-Marcil, a Democrat whose District 30 spans parts of Orange and Seminole counties.

With the clock ticking toward the first day of school, Goff-Marcil has been proactive in trying to help moms like Franz.

“I have been writing letters, I have expressed my concerns," Goff-Marcil said. "I knew that we were not going to be in the fall prepared to go back to school.”

At the end of the last school year, Gov. Ron DeSantis did amend the VPK statute. Both Seminole and Orange public school students were able to participate in distance learning. As of now, he has not made an amendment for the fall.

“I would love for my kids to go to school," Franz said with a smile. "They thrive in school, they need the social interaction, but I don’t think the risk is worth sending them back in person.”

As of right now, both counties' school districts have about 500 kids signed up for VPK, out of 14,000 and 4,500 pre-K-aged children, respectively. However, if parents do not sign up, school districts cannot hold spots.