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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I teach at a local private. We are lucky to have a few long-term subs on campus everyday. However, we still don’t have enough subs to cover for everyone who’s been sick, experiencing mild symptoms but awaiting PCR test results (3-4 days in DC), or home with a sick or quarantined child. Our division heads and admin staffers are covering classes and duties. It’s meant that we don’t always have people available when a child needs to be sent to the office or school counselor. It’s meant canceling parent meetings or attending them for just a few minutes so that teaching staff can substitute for absent staff. That’s sustainable for a week or two, but if post-break absences are any higher than they were throughout December, sustaining operations will be difficult. We can’t magic up more personnel, no matter how many angry letters the HoS gets.[/quote]

Parents will sub.

We’ve seen our tooth private schools kids - particularly lower school - fall quite behind in their foundational skills. And no review this year after 1.5 years of 2.5 hours of virtual school a day.

Great time to be a $100/30 min tutor![/quote]

I prefer in-person to virtual, but if we're to the point of putting random parents in the classroom to sub, someone please give me a heads up so I can keep my child home. There are a lot of parents I wouldn't trust to be in charge of a classroom for a day. And most of the ones I would trust wouldn't volunteer because they understand they don't have the skills to do it well. If you think it's easy, you probably don't understand the job very well. I might feel different for middle/upper school (where you could basically make one class out of the day into a parent-supervised study hall), but for elementary it's very different situation.[/quote]

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