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Around the District great happenings continue. Just to highlight a few, our MHS Robotics Club took 1st place recently demolishing the competition, our Marching Band represented at the Clayton Competition, we hosted 20 German exchange students (kudos to all involved)- they celebrated their final night together with dinner, the Inaugural MHS 3 v. 3 basketball tournament was a big hit, and lastly the coffee house singers wrapped up the evening last night. Holly Heights hosted the opening of the WOW mobile. The WOW mobile is the “Wellness on Wheels” mobile response unit that is now capable of providing our students and senior citizens medical as well as dental health services at their doorstep. The partnership with Gateway Community Action Partnership, Inspira, and CompleteCare has removed the obstacle of transportation for some of our most in need families.
Congratulations to Sarah Fryling for being selected as an NJEA/Eagles Radio All-Pro Educator! Winning two tickets to an upcoming Eagles game and dinner for two. Kudos!!
These are just some of the amazing events happening across the district! (If you want to suggest recognition of any that I may miss feel free to send me an email)
Typically I want to keep the Friday email upbeat and focused on recognizing all of your amazing efforts. With that said, I feel I would like to share just briefly a few comments regarding two important issues.
Insight – Substitute Concerns:The issue of substitute shortages. Insight recently held another job fair in order to increase the pool of candidates. It was well attended. They continue to work hard to fill our vacancies and have been successful with the openings given advanced notice. The same day call-outs are the most difficult to fill.
Interesting to note, that as of last year at this time there was a combined absence of 841; over the same period of time this year there were 1041 nearly 200 more absences than last year. This puts a strain on the available pool of candidates. In addition, last year we had 27 leaves of absence, this year same time period, we have 56. I mention this only to highlight that the demand for substitutes this year has been greater than in any other school year in recent history. I am confident Insight will continue to work to meet the demands of the district –
Civil Service
I only want to clarify that the board of education’s decision to put a vote to the public regarding Civil Service has nothing to do with ‘privatizing’ or taking anyone’s job. There are a variety of reasons it is believed that Civil Service is not necessary as it complicates the hiring and human resource management process. The results of the question will not be used by the board for any reason as it was never their intention to hurt their staff members. After learning it has caused so much controversy we asked to have it removed from the ballot but we were told it was too late. Therefore, the board decided to simply not use the results or pursue this issue further at this time.
Have a great Friday and even better weekend!
Dr. G.
#greatdaytobeabolt
Dr. David N. Gentile
Superintendent of Schools
“Lead Learner”
@drgentile_mps (Twitter)
856-327-6001
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