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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What are the hurdles to hiring more support staff to aid with the learning losses?  My understanding of the issues is:
1) no one to hire
2) pay probably sucks = no one to hire
3)  DCPS is slow at hiring

But is there a lack of funding for such positions, even if there were people to hire?  Because funding seems like something parents could advocate for.  The finding of people seems like it would require maybe a training program.  Idk.[/quote]

+1, I think this is huge. The staffing shortage is hard to address, although signing bonuses and other incentives would help.

I know in DCPS, often PTOs raise money to hire more aids and support staff in the wealthier schools. But the learning losses are almost certainly concentrated in Title 1 schools. We are at a Title 1 and I know they have gotten extra funding for bridging learning gaps but it’s not clear to me if this is above and beyond what they get normally. Real transparency in where this money is coming from and where it is going would help.

I think we should have teachers aides past ECE. This past year, 1st and 2nd grade teachers were doing the work if kindergarten in many classrooms. Keep in mind for kids in ECE, learning losses include stuff like emotional awareness and regulation, life skills like putting on and taking off clothes, even bathroom etiquette. Because a lot of kids learn that stuff in PK and K in DCPS. Even though PK is non compulsory, it serves a very valuable purpose in DCPS. Some of these gaps are things even more fundamental than reading and math, and elementary teachers are having to make up the difference, which is contributing to burn out too.[/quote]

+2; in some of the best schools in nw there are paras in every classroom bc the pta can sponsor it. Dcps idea of funding for learning loss was to try and pay teachers below their hourly rate to work after school with no additional resources or curriculum. Basically they wanted teachers to do everything[/quote]

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