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Additionally, Lindbergh is also a part of labor shortages involving food. Main principal, Dr. Cochran, is enlightened about this and the situations it has created for Lindbergh. “I know students get frustrated, especially when we can’t open a lunch line that they would typically use. The food service workers are like many other workers, they can get sick and have to stay home, or sometimes they have kids and they get sick and have to stay home with their own kids. And so when we don’t have enough people to work behind those lines, we sometimes have to consolidate,” Cochransaid. Not only has Lindbergh been looking for solutions to shortages within the food service staff, but they sometimes have to do this for bus driver services as well. On days when there is no one to drive a specific bus, they have no choice but to adapt to it the best they can.Cochran has acknowledged those concerns. “We do the best we can. We just sometimes have no one and so we have to shut it down or consolidate that bus today due to no one being able to drive it. So let’s take those kids to another bus. It’s no fun, but it’s the reality of running a school,” said Cochran. Since COVID-19, staffing shortages have become a regular feature of the past school years. The pandemic was an eye-opener for some workers as it changed their ideals of work. Despite the one-time solutions, Lindbergh still strives to fix the problem.

Jose Valencia, one of the food service staff working in the new cafeteria.

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Antonia Franco , one of the food service staff working in the new cafeteria.

According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, as the graph demonstrates, jobs openings are outpacing hires in public education. This data was collected by the The Jobs Opening and Labor Turnover Survey program

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