Fosters Daily Democrat
DOVER When Mike Romps kindergarten class of Garrison Elementary School students went to fully remote learning last year, he experienced what he considers one of the greatest challenges in his professional teaching career. I ve been teaching for 20 years, and I felt like a first-year teacher all over again, Romps said. In the beginning we were all just trying to kind of MacGyver it . It was a great deal of work to educate through a screen, and we saw that nothing beats that face-to-face in-person learning.
Romps was one of more than 800 educators and school staff members vaccinated on Friday during a mass vaccination clinic at Dover High School, made possible by a collaborative effort between Dover School District, Dover Fire and Rescue Department and the Strafford County Community Health Network.
The Dover Teachers Union reacted this week to the news that approximately 40 teaching positions could be eliminated under a new tax-cap compliant budget for the 2022 fiscal year.
Posting to Facebook on Wednesday, the Dover Teachers Union shared that the Dover School District had been tasked with compiling a new budget, according to the post, which added that preliminary estimates could require significant position reductions.
According to those projections, shared by the Dover Teachers Union on Wednesday and originally outlined during a Dover School Board meeting on Monday, those 40 district-wide reductions in teaching positions could include 11 elementary teaching job reductions, 13 middle school reductions, and 16 high school reductions.