In case no one has told you, the odds your kids will be at school in person in 2-3 wks in the US approach zero in most areas, no matter what your BOE or Governor decide about opening. There won’t be enough people well to run buses, lunches, clean, or teach. Plan now as a family.
I do think we’ll see a rapid peak of #omicron cases by some point in January & then a fall, but enough critical staff will be sick that it will be logistically impossible to keep most schools open during Jan. Our own county @hcpss had a 90 driver shortfall to start the school yr.
And our cases were low then. If it were that easy to just find more bus drivers, their efforts to hire all summer would’ve been successful. It isn’t going to be possible to hire a full cadre of replacement bus drivers in a wk or two. You don’t have enough people trained to do it.
And even if you did, it’s not clear to me that people would be willing to risk their health driving buses full of kids contagious with #omicron to school. And even if they were, every other county is going to be competing for the same subs.
So, in summary, maybe when the dust has settled, we’ll finally pay all essential employees like school bus drivers, who are vital to education, what they are worth, but in the short-term, in Jan 2022, we have no plan so we have planned to fail. #Omicron @hcpss @GovLarryHogan
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