ORLANDO, Fla. – Some local parents who are too apprehensive to send their children back to brick-and-mortar schools as the state continues to report thousands of new COVID-19 cases per day have opted to use learning pods instead.The idea behind the learning pod concept is to gather a group of a few students together and their parents pay for a tutor who will teach the children in the pod exclusively through the semester.To provide parents with more options, the city of Orlando has announced that it will also be creating learning pods for the upcoming semester.There will be two nine-student pods at six of the city’s community centers starting Monday, the same day Orange County Public Schools begins its semester virtually.The pods will.