But don't worry about any of that. It's all good news according to the R-8 official who triggered the move, Executive Director of Elementary Education Jennifer Doshier.
It just means Joplin is growing.
From KODE's coverage:
"The movement, it allowed our class sizes to be at an appropriate level of 24-25 students at both schools that way, which is with our guidelines that we have to follow," said Doshier.
She says having to move three teachers was more than normal, but it shows growth in the area.
"We had a lot of people moving into our community, which is an exciting thing. It shows that our community is rebuilding and growing and developing, and so we're excited about that," she said.
She believes it was not only a positive transition for teachers, but for the students at Irving Elementary as well.
3 comments:
So instead of adding teachers and making all the classes smaller, they just made all the classes bigger. That's nice.
Anyone who worked at McKinley the year of the massacre would know this is typical JD. she knew in the spring there were over 60+ kindergarten students enrolled for the upcoming year. She did nothing. The first day if school she still had 2 kindergarten teachers for 60+ Students. She had ZERO AIDES on hand to assist . This included a second year teacher in her first year in Joplin as a K teacher. The other experienced one left mid summer for another job because the building was toxic. So, by late September she finally decided we needed another K teacher. The teacher she hired was fresh out of college. JD allowed the other 2 K teachers to divide the class. They gave K teacher #3 the worst kids out of their classes. That poor teacher begged for help from Sarah Stevens the TLC and received nothing. She also went to JD for help, but because the other 2 K teachers bullied her and talked bad to JD behind her back, she received no support. That teacher was dismissed at the end of the year and after 4 years of college was told by JD that she "maybe needed to be a paraprofessional". WOW. trust me, this stuff goes on with her all of the time. No planning and a lot of apologizing. Get used to that Joplin. Another great upper admin hire.
Just curious as to why there are 32 students in one of the kindergarten classes at Eastmorland. 32? For kindergarten. It's ridiculous what the clowns running this district are allowing to happen.
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