{"id":996137,"date":"2021-11-10T21:28:36","date_gmt":"2021-11-11T02:28:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=996137"},"modified":"2021-11-10T21:28:38","modified_gmt":"2021-11-11T02:28:38","slug":"missouri-school-district-hires-high-school-students-due-to-short-staffing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/missouri-school-district-hires-high-school-students-due-to-short-staffing\/","title":{"rendered":"Missouri School District Hires High School Students Due to Short Staffing"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fmissouri-school-district-hires-high-school-students-due-to-short-staffing%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=996137&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p class=\"subheading\">A school district in Missouri is turning to students to help fill its vacant positions due to staffing issues.<\/p>\n<p>The Northwest School District in Jefferson County is <a href=\"https:\/\/fox2now.com\/news\/missouri-school-district-hiring-its-own-students-to-combat-labor-shortage\/\">hiring<\/a> high school students to offset staff shortages, Fox 2 reports.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>The district <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stltoday.com\/news\/local\/education\/students-help-fill-staffing-shortages-at-jefferson-county-schools\/article_02659c35-6d07-5027-aef7-993c15e3ea9a.html\">held<\/a> a job fair on November 3 to fill positions in food service, custodial work, and before and after-school child care, according to the <em>St. Louis Post-Dispatch<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSome of the positions have been short-staffed since last year,\u201d the district\u2019s Chief Operating Officer Kim Hawk told Fox 2. \u201cWe just have struggled to find any help at all, and if you drive around and look at the help wanted signs everywhere, you know the competition is stiff. So, we knew we had to come up with some other plan.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_17405226\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" readability=\"36\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/apr2021-help-wanted-unemployment-businesses-jobs-getty.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-17405226\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/apr2021-help-wanted-unemployment-businesses-jobs-getty.jpg\" alt=\"PAWTUCKET, RHODE ISLAND-APRIL 09: A company advertises a help wanted sign on April 09, 2021 in Pawtucket, Rhode Island. Rhode Island consistently ranks as one of the worst states in America for the condition of its infrastructure with an estimated 24% of its roads in poor condition and 23% of its bridges standing structurally deficient. Looking to reshape the U.S. economy, President Joe Biden has recently unveiled a $2 trillion jobs, infrastructure and green energy plan called the American Jobs Plan. If passed, the proposal would create tens of thousands of jobs in construction, clean energy and technology. Many economists, engineers and politicians believe that infrastructure in the United Sates is lagging behind China and other competitive nations. (Photo by Spencer Platt\/Getty Images) (Photo by Spencer Platt\/Getty Images)\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">A company advertises a help wanted sign on April 09, 2021, in Pawtucket, Rhode Island. (Photo by Spencer Platt\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re going to actually hire more students than we have positions for, so we have the flexibility for the students\u2019 schedules,\u201d Hawk told Fox 2. \u201cSo, if they have a big test coming up, we have the flexibility for their schedules because their grades and being a student is their first priority.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>Students will earn hourly wages anywhere from $9.75 \u2013 $14.68, according to the <em>St. Louis Post-Dispatch<\/em>. Twenty-five students were interviewed at Wednesday\u2019s job fair to fill the district\u2019s nine vacant positions.<\/p>\n<p>According to Fox 2, the students who interviewed for positions are undergoing the \u201conboarding process,\u201d which includes taking fingerprints.<\/p>\n<p>Students must be 16 years of age or older to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/NorthwestSchools\/?ref=page_internal\">work<\/a> for the schools, though 15-year-olds can become eligible by obtaining a work permit, according to a Facebook post from the school district. Students must be 17&nbsp; to work in before or after-school child-care programs.<\/p>\n<p>Northwest School District\u2019s Chief Human Resources Officer Mark Catalana told Fox 2 that a job working for the schools will better serve students than employment at businesses that usually hire high school students because employment for the district will not include late nights, holidays, or weekends.&nbsp;\u201cIf they worked at fast-food restaurants, they work long nights, evenings, weekends, holidays,\u201d Catalana told the outlet.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have kids that are very capable and able to hold good jobs in this community and other places of employment, so to reflect on that and say why wouldn\u2019t we use those resources within our own facilities,\u201d Dr. Desi Kirchhofer, superintendent of the Northwest School District, told Fox 2.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<div class=\"fb-post\" data-href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/NorthwestSchools\/posts\/7047976525219893\" data-width=\"640\" readability=\"23.903645833333\">\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/graph.facebook.com\/694010503949892\/posts\/7047976525219893\/\" class=\"fb-xfbml-parse-ignore\" readability=\"7.1354166666667\">\n<p>Are you a Northwest High School student looking for a part-time job? Come to our Student Job Fair on Nov. 3! Northwest\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Posted by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/694010503949892\">Northwest R-I School District<\/a> on&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/graph.facebook.com\/694010503949892\/posts\/7047976525219893\/\">Thursday, October 28, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<p>Northwest School District will be offering transportation to take employed students from the school they attend to one of the ten schools in the district where they are employed, Fox 2 reports.<\/p>\n<p>One sophomore student is excited about the opportunity.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI want to get into the workforce,\u201d Mason Follett, 15, told the <em>St. Louis Post-Dispatch<\/em>. \u201cI don\u2019t want to rely on my parents for things.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Fittingly, Mason\u2019s 17-year old sister Morgan is also keen on the idea and says that through participation in child care, students can help produce the next generation of leaders in Jefferson County\u2019s Northwest School District.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEspecially in child services, we can really bring them up in the Northwest spirit and help them become the leaders we are now,\u201d Morgan Follett told the <em>St. Louis Post-Dispatch<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Fox 2 reports that the district has received calls from other districts inquiring about the program. They have encouraged others to partake in similar programs, according to the outlet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A school district in Missouri is turning to students to help fill its vacant positions due to staffing issues. 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