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New Mexico will use National Guard and state bureaucrats to fill in for teachers calling out sick with COVID-19 infections in 'unprecedented' move: At least 800 substitute teachers and day care workers needed to cover shifts
2022-01-21
  • [Daily Mail, Where America Gets Its News] Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham announced her plan to ask National Guard members and state employees to volunteer as substitute teachers

  • New Mexico appears to be the first state to ask National Guard members to become classroom teachers

  • The governor said that since winter break 60 schools have gone into remote learning and 75 child day care centers have partially or completely closed

  • Lujan Grisham said the state is hoping to deploy 500 new substitute teachers and day care workers as soon as possible

  • Staff shortages are due to teachers testing positive for Covid or forcing to quarantine
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Posted by:Skidmark

#10  The article said the teacher shortage was the result of COVID related quarantines and isolation of + cases, not that teachers were refusing to teach. I think any able bodied person with a 1960s or earlier class high school diploma could teach reasonably well brought up primary students, but perhaps not in New Mexico. It is our own third world state, after all.
Posted by: Bubba Lover of the Faeries8843   2022-01-21 18:14  

#9  Except in Albuquerque; NG probably has the right skill set.
Posted by: swksvolFF   2022-01-21 14:51  

#8  A great mission for the "rainbow recruits."
Posted by: M. Murcek   2022-01-21 14:45  

#7  Well they might actually know the subject matter for one....
Posted by: CrazyFool   2022-01-21 14:43  

#6  #3 Frank G, that was the first thought that crossed my mind. I doubt that a lot of the national guard or state bureaucrats have all the training and education degrees that we hear are necessary. But they can do the job just as well as the credentialed teachers? Is that what we are hearing?
Posted by: Tom   2022-01-21 14:19  

#5  Easier said than done. I foresee many problems.
Posted by: Dale   2022-01-21 10:18  

#4  A very real possibility.

Federalization of education.
Posted by: Skidmark   2022-01-21 09:25  

#3  Well, now we know union teachers can be replaced in event of a sickout or strike
Posted by: Frank G   2022-01-21 08:49  

#2  Or, is this really a politically agenda move to force other union demands greater agenda goals?
A very real possibility.
Posted by: Deacon Blues   2022-01-21 07:49  

#1  While I understand a person not wanting to work conditions adverse to their personal safety. Given the "claimed" NEA support of VAX'ing, then why are teacher refusing to teach? Should they been good little union members and have alrwady taken the VAX and all the boosters that Lord F & JB have decreed?

Or, is this really a politically agenda move to force other union demands greater agenda goals?
Posted by: NN2N1   2022-01-21 03:42  

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