Milwaukee school caught so shorthanded by the absences - Security Guards substitute teaching

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MILWAUKEE - Milwaukee Public Schools on Tuesday sent a district-wide email that ordered teachers and other employees not to skip school to attend rallies protesting Governor Walker's controversial budget bill.

"For the remainder of this week, monitor and record requests for absence, date and time received, notice of request and reason," the email read. "Any staff member who is absent without prior approval is to be coded AWOL (Code 91). Principals are not to approve absence for personal reasons (code 23 or code 69) during the next three days."

32 Rufus King High School teachers called in sick Tuesday morning as thousands of public workers rallied in Madison and in smaller events across Wisconsin against Walker's proposal to eliminate most collective bargaining rights for most state employees. A source told Newsradio 620 WTMJ that the school was caught so shorthanded by the absences that it had to use support staff such as security guards as substitute teachers.

The teachers are told all the time that they are lousy teachers and contribute nothing to the education of their students so I do not know why the administrations would even miss them.

Fortunately, the security forces will no doubt be up to that.

money for having the children in attendance. I'd also be curious as to the legality of using non-teachers, or even non-substitute teachers as fills ins. I'm pretty sure the security guards don't have the training for that.

Teach for America teachers after only five weeks training.......

NGU.

closed to school for the day in protest.

All the Security Guards are in class.

In a tough neighborhood so I wouldn't mess with those kids.