Milpitas public schools reverse remote learning decision, parents told last-minute to send kids to schoolSome Bay Area schools facing staffing shortages brought on by rising COVID-19 cases want to temporarily move students to remote learning but county and district rules say otherwise.
The superintendent's office for the Milpitas Unified School District sent a note to parents on Saturday informing them that all classes would be held in the classroom,from a day earlier to temporarily go fully remote from Jan. 10 to 17. "After consulting with the Santa Clara County Office of Education, we learned that we are not able to offer a ‘districtwide quarantine’ as shared in our Friday communication. Community quarantines may be declared by county public health," the MUSD Superintendent's Office said in athe district superintendent's office shared
that the district had 167 substitute teacher positions unfilled, "requiring us to cover classes with other teachers, principals, district office staff, as well as grouping classes together with one teacher. In addition, we had 107 support staff positions unfilled this week.""It's frustrating not knowing," said Esmeralda Madrigal, a mother with two children in first grade, and a third in kindergarten.
If parents choose to opt for distance learning either short-term or long-term, they'll have to sign an independent study contract with their school, according to the district superintendent's office.
I'm ok with this decision, as long as the administration that made this decision spend a week in the school next to the teachers! It's garbage that these morons are forcing teachers & children into an unsafe condition!