DENVER | Some Denver area schools are switching to remote learning or canceling classes this week because of staffing shortages.
Schools in the Adams 14, Boulder Valley, and Adams 12 Five Star districts will be closed Thursday for Veterans Day and will remain closed Friday because they cannot find enough substitute teachers and other staff, The Denver Post reported.
In Denver, one high school switched to remote learning starting Wednesday, warning that online classes could be extended through Nov. 19. Meanwhile, students in two other Denver Public Schools sites will have remote classes Thursday and Friday.
Schools have had trouble hiring enough school nurses and bus drivers, in addition to substitute teachers, this year. Some have also had to reduce food options during lunchtime because of supply chain problems.
In addition to not being able to fill vacancies, some Denver school employees are on leave to care for family members or are sick themselves, district spokesman Will Jones said.
“We are doing everything in our power to keep our schools open and to maximize in-person learning opportunities for our students,” he said. “At the same time, we are facing a critical staffing shortage, like districts across the country, that impacts our ability to safely operate our schools.”
Just wait until there aren’t enough teachers and employees even to open schools.
I have two friends who are teachers home quarantining with Covid they got from children in their classes, and entire classes have to quarantine, and this affects all their families requiring testing, and it spreads out from there. My grandson’s daycare closed because a young child tested positive, and now all of us who’ve been around my grandchild are testing. An 80 year old friend is testing after spending time with her grandchildren in Erie and one then tested positive after someone in his class did. All these adults vaccinated. But with the Delta so contagious, and so many still unvaccinated, we are at the mercy of the ignorant population that refuses to wear masks and get vaccinated. Of course schools are short-staffed, they are Covid-spreading locations and people concerned about their health and that of their families are not going back there to work – especially as they watch GOP invade the school board meetings and threaten people with violence, try to pass mandates AGAINST MASKS & VACCINES. Who would want to be part of that whole world anymore?