Teachers Get Extra Duty Pay Bump

What's the total cost of this big pay hike? From where is the money coming? This was budgeted? I don't think so. It's so interesting to see teachers seeking such big paydays after working so hard to keep the schools closed for so long - a move that even the national head of the teacher's union, Randi Weingarten who also fought to keep the schools closed and for billions to be sent to the schools - admits was a mistake. Of course, no apologies - just an oops tweet.

Ya those horrible teachers….. /s
Maybe walk a mile in their shoes OCD…

My question for you OCD if we did just what you wanted and brought back children to the schools from day 1. What would the attendance reflect. We are all ready at record highs for attendance, so you are telling me students pull of been shipped to school on a bus and placed in an environment that could possibly get family members sick. Please look past your white picket fence and realize most of NH communities are living with grandparents or aunts and uncles alone with moms and dads that have many people in one house. No where to quarantine in a situation like that. You come into this with blinders on.

"Pandemic-related school closures are deepening educational inequality in the United States by severely impairing the academic progress of children from low-income neighborhoods..." - NHPS
https://news.yale.edu/2021/01/05/covid-school-closures-most-harm-students-poorest-neighborhoods
“Dr. Redfield believes school can be one of the safest places for K-12 youth during the Covid-19 pandemic, and that the risk of closing K-12 schools outweighs the risks of keeping them open...”
https://edition.cnn.com/2020/11/24/health/cdc-schools-coronavirus-website-redfield/index.html
Articles from 2020 and 2021 (two of many) speak even now to the fact that many of this generation of NHPS students will almost certainly suffer the ongoing emotional, social, and academic scars brought on by the pandemic and the past shuttering of NHPS. Find the money, find the teachers, find the urgency.

Right now in NHPS there is a serious teacher shortage, as there is across the country. Anyone who is willing to stick it out under the current circumstances AND is willing to add before or after school instruction on top of the regular class assignments, is a hero in my book, and should be paid hero pay.

@noteworthy/OCD in school when attendance is taken if a child is excused or sick with a doctors note that still counts towards being absent. Some of these numbers can be inflated a bit. Once a child hits 18 there is no coming back they are automatically labeled chronically absent for the year. Truancy is not staffed enough to handle the mass amount of kids on these lists. The pandemic brought on many more issues with homelessness and jobs lost. The racial divide is overwhelming higher within the black and brown communities. Parents need help and services beyond the scope of what NHPS can handle. The teacher shortage has definitely impacted students coming to school. For many of our students schools are a safe space but the pandemic exasperated student behavior and teacher burnout. More needs to be done. Schools need to become safe havens again for our children to learn. The district needs to fill our classrooms with teachers. And yes if you don’t understand that many families would of kept students home during the online learning than you are not aware of how many students didn’t even show up to online learning. All I’m saying is the attendance issue would of been the same if we all went back when we closed down.