“Through the contact-tracing process, we have not seen any spread of COVID-19 within our school buildings, and we believe that is due to our safety practices and everyone doing a great job of following those protocols,” he said. If LPS officials need to rethink it down the road, he said, they will. Part of the motivation for the change, Joel said, is that districts around the country are struggling to find substitutes to fill in for teachers who must quarantine, a problem complicated by the fact that many substitutes are retired teachers whose age puts them at higher risk. Rita Bennett, president of the Lincoln Education Association, said some substitutes are also leery of having to teach both remote and in-person learners at the same time, even though they’ve had some training. Bennett said getting substitutes has been an issue, with teachers having to cover for those gone, a situation that makes finding planning time to better manage both in-person and remote learners even more difficult.

Source: Daily Sun September 03, 2020 23:15 UTC