Monday's gonna be fun (NOT).
Two districts SE of me (one of which I used to drop kids off at a school not connected to their district) are opening Whole Hog on the 17th. There have apparently been numerous mass resignations by teachers over safety - and considering what I posted up-thread about no county in the state meeting lower benchmarks for in-person learning, this might also not be copacetic with AZDOE standards.
Of course, being the POS Republican State we are, Ducey's office is claiming that the benchmarks were "guidelines."
The other reason why Monday's NOT gonna be fun is a bit more personal: MPS is going to open 26 of our 82 schools as "On-site Support Centers" for certain students.
From the
website:
The intention of the Governor's Executive Order is that the district serve the more vulnerable students in our district, such as children of first responders, children in DCS custody, students with disabilities, students lacking adequate technology at home to participate in distance learning, and any student needing a safe place to participate in remote learning during school hours.
Students must be previously registered with the district at their regular school of attendance to be eligible to register for on-site learning centers.
Registration will be taken until the site is filled.
In essence, this will turn these 26 schools (of which 17 are located on the west side of Mesa - the hardest hit section of the city in terms of COVID) into child care facilities.
Since no transportation will be provided, I won't be driving kids anywhere. But guess who's going to be "staffing" these sites? Hint: not teachers.
Centers will be staffed with paraprofessionals and other hourly support staff to supervise students and assist them with logging on to remote learning.
Guess what "other hourly support staff" means.
In other news, I'm waiting to hear which school I get assigned to. With my luck, I'd end up at Riverview or Superstition.
