'Staff Shortages' Close Ludington Schools Indefinitely

[XLFD]

The Ludington Area School District is prepared to choose its next superintendent at a special meeting of their school board on Monday night, but before that decision is reached, a decision to shut school doors for that school day due to 'staff shortages' has come from the interim superintendent.  This closure appears at this point to be indefinite, requiring evaluation.

                          Notifications of school closures from LASD website and Facebook page, respectively

Earlier today, the LASD sent out a notice that since the county's test positivity rate is over 20%, they would once again require masks to be worn by school personnel for this week; masks are required when the rate is above 10%.  That decision may be academic given that the district is not giving out much information regarding the issue leading to their indefinite closure other than 'staff shortages'.

Meanwhile, the LASD is keeping the mask mandate on LASD staff and students forever even when the data shows that the testing positivity rate for the county is below 10%.  Here is the school's letter issued last Sunday claiming that TPR is at 17.09% for the period between October 22 and 28, but the graph of Mason County's 7 day moving average of that period shows that the TPR never went over 10% during that period, and close to zero near the middle:

This happened earlier in the middle of September as well, without explanation as to why the numbers didn't match up with the graph.  Is the LASD staff getting fed up about being lied to about the local test positivity rate and staging a protest?  Many teachers stood up at the school board meeting at the end of August arguing for parents and teachers to have a choice as to wear masks in school-- have they finally organized a revolt against the only tyrannical school district in the county to impose a mask mandate?  

We will investigate this issue further since school executives would rather not tell their heavily paying clients they have ignored throughout the school year why exactly they are closing tomorrow.

[Sidney Johnson]

Me thinks there be something rotten in LASD.  

MUZZLE not the ox that treadeth out the corn, give teachers a choice.

[Willy]

I agree with Sidney. This smells worse than a beach full of dead alewife's. I don't know how they arrive at their % numbers but their conclusions and the actions taken because of it would indicate that  Chicken Little has more common sense than those in charge of dealing with this Covid nonsense. The graph below has some information but how it was gathered and what it means is anyone's guess. When they site a %, what exactly is that a % of?

Hospitalizations are way down and deaths are at 0 and X stated that the positivity rate is way off, so,  what the Hell is going on. This is how the Government incompetence screws the pooch.

[Willy]

One more thing. If I were applying for the Superintendents job I would think twice about getting involved and taking a job in the LASD with this fiasco going on.

[XLFD]

Most of the stats put out by the CDC are meaningless because nobody can verify them.  The same people who want to enforce vaccine passports claim giving out the names and co-morbidities of people who died of the coronavirus is an invasion of privacy.  Any kind of crisis is over, but Big Government and Big Pharma is keeping it rolling on and on, and it's to the point that good people have to step up and put a stop to it.

I will be fighting this school board and will work against the re-election efforts of any member of the school board who choose to hold our kids hostage behind masks.

[XLFD]

Ludington schools and Newaygo schools will be closed the rest of the week due to staff shortages.  Some of the chatter I am hearing in the background is that several teachers are out or quarantined and there isn't many substitutes to cover their assignments, and most administrators are being used for subbing. 

Hard to imagine that they have a hard time keeping a bench of substitute teachers.  These professionals get called in at the last minute to work for less than $10 an hour, often going through weeks where they are rarely used.  With covid protocols, they not only have to perform in front of strange kids wearing masks but also lose their voice by trying to get them to hear what they're trying to say.  I swear, more droplets (and especially aerosols) come out of a person's mouth when they are wearing a mask because they have to talk louder and with more emphasis. 

I substituted for over ten years, but I wouldn't even consider doing sub work now at a place that had mask mandates.