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Requests for positions to be accepted
Staffing positions, itramural flag football coach needed
By M.K. Luther - mkluther@nvdaily.com
FRONT ROYAL -- The Warren County School Board will hear requests tonight for an additional elementary school staffing position and coaches for a new middle school intramural flag football program.
Following an increase in the number of special needs students over the summer months at Hilda J. Barbour Elementary School, the school is asking for an additional educational assistant position, according to a request from Loretta Stevens, supervisor of special services.
Two of the special instructions classrooms, one for moderate intellectual disabilities and the other for multiple disabilities, now have 13 pupils, Stevens said.
Assistants also must help four of the pupils move from wheelchairs to mats several times a day, the document states. Several of the pupils have high-maintenance medical needs, and are using feeding tubes and oxygen. These pupils require help with feeding and clothing, including diaper changes.
The classrooms are maintained by one teacher and two assistants each. The staff also must assist the special needs pupils who attend general education classrooms.
"The current staff already goes above and beyond to give their students the best education they can have, but there are safety concerns if less than [two] staff members remain with the students in the self-contained classroom," the request document states.
An additional position would offer the existing staff both assistance and support. Salary and benefits for the position will total $18,886 and be paid through funds created by staff turnover, according to the document.
Also, Warren County Middle School is seeking four flag football coaching positions and one referee.
The school is changing the current football program to intramural flag football in an effort to keep pupils involved in the sport, according to the request document provided by Principal Alan Fox.
The coaching positions would be paid a $500 stipend for 11 work days, including a rules clinic, three days of practice and seven game days. The referee position would receive a $450 stipend for the one-day rules clinic and 14 games.
The total cost of the flag football program is estimated to be $2,450 and the current budget provides $3,426, the request states.
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