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Hundreds resign, retire amid extremely challenging year for educators
and last updated 2021-03-16 08:10:34-04
KILLEEN, TX â Thousands of teachers have resigned or retired over the last year, but what s more, is the number of educators who ve died across our nation from COVID-19.
As many districts continue looking at mitigating viruses in the years to come, the Killeen Educators Association highlights the challenges faculty still face. Yes the kids might be okay, but they re not going to empty schools they re not going to empty classrooms, they re going to people who could very much well die from this virus, said Jennifer Lee, an educator with KISD.
There have been 1,596 positive cases of the coronavirus among both students and staff within the Killeen Independent School District since March as of Friday.
At the elementary level, 316 students and 409 staff have tested positive. At KISD middle schools, 198 students and 138 staff have tested positive, and 263 students and 148 staff have tested positive at high schools, according to the district’s COVID-19 dashboard, https://www.killeenisd.org/dashboard.
A total of 124 staff members have tested positive at KISDâs non-campus buildings.
At least two teachers have died from complications with the virus.
There were 24 active cases of the virus â 17 students and 7 staff members â in the district as of Friday, according to KISD. Maxdale and Skipcha Elementary schools have the highest number of active cases in the district currently. Maxdale has five active cases, 3 employees and 2 students, while Skipcha has a total of four active COVID-19 cases, two students and two