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[quote=Anonymous]Pre-Covid, our desperately overcrowded elementary school would have a single para cover lunch (one grade ate at a time and each grade cohort had 130-180 students). The noise was deafening, and paras have no training and little authority to discipline kids, so the lunch para resorted to crowd control measures that lead to parents and students petitioning the principal to have the para relieved of lunch duty.

Simultaneously, another grade (another 130-180 students) would be outside at recess with just 2 paras. The playground had shrunk to accommodate 10-12 portable classrooms, so it was mayhem, but even worse when they had indoor recess and the 2 recess paras had to cover 5-6 classrooms at once.

The PTA is not permitted to fund extra staffing, so there was nothing parents could do to help except volunteer. The school actively recruited volunteers, especially for kindergarteners who struggle to open food packaging. I believe this was derailed by Covid. I have no idea what they do now.[/quote]

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