Westville Schools superintendent Seth Miller told Linda Bolton on 1490 WDAN’s News Makers program that in the midst of all the COVID challenges, school districts have to keep moving forward the best they can.
AUDIO: We’re just trying to find ways to bend but not break. We’re committed to trying to keep our kids in school as much as we can. We’re committed to safety and being healthy; but just trying to continue to educate kids, keep buildings open, feed kids, and serve kids. Because we, kind of as a society, keep working through this challenging time.
Miller says one thing that helps is staff being willing to do the work of more than one person, and just stepping up where needed.
AUDIO: Just grit, and really just great effort from our teachers, and drivers, and lunch staff. Because if you know a teacher, they’re probably helping another co-worker out. They’re probably a bus driver that may be doing two routes, or a lunch staff that’s serving twice as much or doing twice as many dishes. I think it’s really a “can do attitude.”
Miller says that for the first two weeks of the new semester, staff among Westville Schools had nearly as many COVID cases as the entire first semester.
