As a new school year begins, many Vermont school districts are dealing with inadequate staffing levels in multiple different positions, including para-educators. And that is leaving students without essential care — and some parents frustrated.
Lynn Brochus daughter, Miley, is a nine-year-old at the Irasburg Village School, part of The Orleans Central Supervisory Union. She says her daughter is a shaken baby syndrome survivor and that her needs are high. Shes got a pretty extensive IEP, to include PT, OT — speech and language, Brochu said.
To start this school year, she says Miley was told she couldnt go because nobody at the school could provide the care she needs. I recognize the totality of the state shortage of people and bodies, but, however, this is coming at the expense of my daughter right now, she said.
