Staff Report
Ascension Parish Public Schools announced the school and district winners of its Support Personnel of the Year for 2020-21: Kim Harvey from Lakeside Primary is the Primary School Support Person of the Year, Marcus Jones from Dutchtown Middle is the Middle School Support Person of the Year, and Alison Clingfost from Dutchtown High is the High School Support Person of the Year.
All support personnel were selected by their respective school peers and were recognized at this week s Ascension Parish School Board Meeting. No matter where they are, our children deserve excellence at every touchpoint, and I am just so grateful to be a part of a group of people like this, Superintendent David Alexander said. You have all done such an amazing job in getting us all the way through this school year. It s just incredible. You, our support staff of the year, are models of teamwork and service. I know that every day you are learning new things and all of you are leaders.
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Which can lead to the odd awkward moment.
Here, for example, was a conversation I blundered upon. It involved someone at Microsoft, someone at Starbucks and someone who might want to consider his filters. (And may now have.)
Naturally, the conversation was on Twitter. I don t get to eavesdrop anywhere else these days.
Microsoft senior cloud advocate Chloe Condon saw a tweet that she wanted to applaud. It read: We once hired a former barista in our #DevOps team. Our dept always had epic coffee.
Condon, amidst a bevy of handclapping emojis, tweeted her reaction: Hire folks with non-traditional paths to tech.