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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]How will they have the staff to cover lunches in classrooms and enough teachers to cover smaller classes spread out using MS space?[/quote]

It says that they are going to [b]cut out[/b] all specials--PE, music, art, etc-- and special education and repurpose those teachers as classroom teachers. [/quote]

Where does it say so?[/quote]

This paragraph is attached at the end of each possible schedule (one day a week. two days a week, every other week, etc)  They don't spell it out per se, but my understanding is that in order to get class sizes down from 25-30 per class to 10 per class, more teachers would be needed to take classes.  Otherwise not sure what they mean by "rotations".  It wouldn't make sense for these specials teachers to work with small groups of kids from many different classes -- would defeat the purpose of keeping kids separated from each other.

[quote]All English for Speakers of Other Languages, Special Education, and resource teachers will work with small groups of students to reduce the student teacher ratios to 10 or less in each learning environment. Fine Arts, Physical Education and Health teachers would be included in the [b]rotations[/b] to reduce the student teacher ratios. * One day is used for teacher planning and professional learning. Students will not report to school, distance learning will continue. [/quote]

The only thing that would make sense would be for each class to be split at least in half, and add extra classroom teachers from among the specialists, ESOL, testing coordinator, instructional lead and mentor teachers, and even bring in central office staff who have certification.[/quote]

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