The faculty have been required to be in our classrooms regardless if we have students in the building or not. For me that's not a bad thing. I can get more accomplished at school than at home with cats, dogs, family around and wanting to play go through the pasture down to the creek etc....We've just started our 2nd week with Freshmen in the building, but not many of them. I suspect we have between 30-45kids in the school. I help screen the kids at the drop off point in the morning, and there are few kids being dropped of by parents.... We also have out Special Needs kids in the building. Upper classmen return in 2 weeks Only teachers to have received vaccinations are those in their 70s. We are all using Zoom or MS Teams to teach and communicate with the kids and their famlies. It's not fun and for a non-tech type like me,it is challenging. The first day the 9th graders were back the buses and parents dropping off kids, we had 21-25 kids on campus. Today we had maybe 45-50 kids present. Our school usually has about 1800 kids on campus. We are hearing the kids want to be in school with friends/teammates etc....but when there are only 1-2 other kids in the room with the teacher it's no fun. The teachers are always calling on those 1-3 kids that are in the classroom to answer the questions or solve the problem.....It's been tough year since we shut down normal educaton for remote learning. Teachers, kids, their families want us all back in the classrooms, as do we teachers want kids in our rooms, BUT we want to be safe and healthy and live to cash in those HUGE retirement checks a few years down the road......We jsut want to be safe and healthy.
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