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[quote=Anonymous]Regarding schedule complaints, it’s often the details that weren’t thought through / don’t really work.

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Classes get double specials twice a week, great, teachers get a double planning, great, but how do kids get from one special to another? The specials teachers don’t trade kids, ala ‘science goes to PE and vice versa.’ It’s totally random. There was no plan put in place or communicated for this new type of transition, so the first two weeks it was very chaotic. The art teacher tried to drop kids off at science, but the science teacher was trying to drop kids at music, and the music teacher had gone to drop kids off at library… you get the idea. We just had to ‘make it work’ on the fly… with some 15 teachers and 200 young students involved. It’s still not always clear, especially now with “split” classes due to staff shortages.

The duty schedule has changed (completely) four times since the beginning of the year. This is unprecedented, hard to keep track of, and makes it really hard to plan, especially when you try to run meetings, classes, or whatever over your “lunch break.” Not to mention we all have more duty than ever before, many people are (accidentally?) on duty far more than contractually allowed, etc. Some duties have 4 people on while others have 2 (for the same type of coverage, that really requires 3.)

As I said before, none of this is easy, and to some extent I get that the real life pressures of an understaffed SY is hard to plan perfectly for. That said, there were obvious problems week one (after a summer of planning), which teachers pointed out right away. They were never really fixed, and now with understaffing moving into flu season… the seams are showing. [/quote]

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