Jenks parent worries quarantined students are being left behind

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JENKS, Okla. — As Governor Kevin Stitt is calling for much substitute teachers to support schools open, 1 Jenks ma says she wants region learning.

Shannon Boughner is some a ma and a doc moving connected the frontlines of the pandemic.

Two of her 3 children be Jenks High School, and some are location close present owed to COVID.

“Of people I privation my kids to beryllium in-person, that’s the full crushed that we chose in-person, but astatine this constituent and time, there’s nary mode that they tin consistently beryllium in-person each time and get an education," Boughner said.

Because 2 of her children person COVID, her 3rd child, a mediate schooler, besides has to enactment home. With their schools presently successful in-person learning, it leaves them to conscionable person assignments online.

“But there’s nary schoolroom acquisition that’s posted online for them to really get teaching," Boughner said. "It’s conscionable near for them to effort to thatch themselves and bash that work.”

Boughner’s vexation comes arsenic Governor Kevin Stitt authorizes astir 32,000 authorities employees to substitute thatch arsenic schools look a shortage of teachers.

“Oklahoma students merit that enactment of being in-person, in-class, with their teachers," Gov. Stitt said.

State Secretary of Education Ryan Walters echoed the governor. He said helium volition bash everything helium tin to support schools open.

“We’ve seen passim the pandemic the antagonistic wellness impacts erstwhile it comes to the intelligence wellness of a young person, erstwhile it comes to the academics of young radical that bash not person in-person school," Walters said. "So we person been moving to support schools unfastened from time 1 truthful that our students person that option.”

However, Boughner said it’s not conscionable the teachers missing from class. When her children person been successful the classroom, she said fractional of their classmates person been out. She said classes remaining in-person are really causing problems for those stuck astatine location who are near struggling connected their own.

“I recognize that they privation to person teachers covered, and if that was the lone lack that we person close present was teachers, past I deliberation that that would beryllium a large idea," Boughner said. "But we person students that are missing and we can’t regenerate those students with different people. And we can’t regenerate their acquisition if we’re not doing region learning.”

Gov. Stitt said they could commencement getting substitutes unneurotic arsenic soon arsenic Wednesday.

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