Photo By Kasey Bubnash
SMALL-SCALE SCHOOL A SLO High School student works on class assignments including raising chicks for an agriculture class in Ingrid Unemar Oest s pandemic learning pod.
A few months into the second semester of the 2021 school year,
San Luis Obispo High School student
Alex Rayas was, like so many students, completely floundering. He was quite literally failing all of his classes.
Rayas had never struggled with school much before the COVID-19 pandemic, but virtual learning just didn t click for him. As a freshman, he d never even set foot on SLO High School s campus when classes started online in the fall. He didn t know many of his classmates and had never actually met any of his teachers.
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Morro Bay High School teacher accused of misusing funds
March 5, 2021
By JOSH FRIEDMAN
The former auto shop teacher at Morro Bay High School allegedly sold vehicles repaired by students without depositing funds from the sales back into a school account. [Tribune]
Additionally, ex-automotive technology teacher James Bueno used school club funds to purchase car parts for personal use, regularly spent more out of the auto club account than was budgeted and gave his mother a car that was repaired using school funds, according to the findings of a private investigations firm.
Following a decade on the Morro Bay High campus that included six years as the school’s automotive technology teacher, as well as stints as a football and a volleyball coach, Bueno resigned with a $48,000 severance package. His resignation took effect Nov. 30, 2020.
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REOPENING? Some elementary students could soon return to school for in-person classes as a result of new state and federal reopening guidelines. According to updated guidelines released by the California Department of Public Health in mid-January, elementary schools are allowed to reopen in counties where COVID-19 case rates are below 25 cases per 100,000 residents. On Feb. 19, SLO County had an adjusted case rate of 15.6 cases per 100,000 residents. That dropped to 9.4 per 100,000 by Feb. 23. I would say as a parent, as a public health professional, I m very excited by the opportunity for all students in this county to have in-person instruction if it meets their needs, Public Health Officer Penny Borenstein said at a