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Grumpy Old Teacher – Generations of public investment in a quality public education system should not be thrown away

Grumpy Old Teacher – Generations of public investment in a quality public education system should not be thrown away
Decisions, Decisions–What’s a School District to Do?


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Let’s survey the audience.

Even as we close out the Covid school year, districts are wrestling with deciding how to open schools in August. What mitigation measures should they keep in place? What should they drop? What does the community want? Parents? Students? Teachers and staff?

Grumpy Old Teacher’s (GOT) district has put a survey online to gather stakeholder input. (Stakeholder is a fancy word that means anyone whose life is affected by what takes place in the city’s schools. Employees, parents, students, obviously. But it also includes community organizations, local businesses who depend upon the school for customers, people who live around a school, etc.) You can find the survey here.

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