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Community members in the Oakridge School District are petitioning to remove Superintendent Reta Doland after staff said she hasn’t supported them during the pandemic.
It wasn’t until roughly nine days before Oakridge teachers started their first day of work in August, that teachers learned they would not be able to work from home. That was a hard decision for some, like English and Spanish teacher Karen Batten, who has a child of her own who needs to be monitored during distance learning.
“Because it is a pandemic and we’re being encouraged to keep our contacts as small as possible and school is not open, I didn’t want to put my 10-year-old into any kind of childcare and expose all of my family some more,” said Batten.