North Texas Schools Battle COVID-19 Surge, Substitute Shortage

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“On average we’ve been averaging about 200 a day which does create the need for about 200 additional substitute requests for our district,” said Abel.

“They packed five classes into there with two supervisors,” said Plano East Senior High student, Simon Salinas. “The reason this happened is because teachers were out because of COVID and we didn’t have enough substitutes.” “Last Friday we were 190 subs short,” she said. “We were 190 subs short, so everyone in this building was out subbing in a classroom.”

“We were all hands on deck, and we can do that, but we need to compete for the subs that we can get ahold of,” said Bonser.Mansfield ISD released this statement that reads in part:

 

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