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MARCH 24, 2021
VOL. 102, NO. 12
A very welcome and special gift Aegis Living laptop program helps Queen Anne employee’s young grandson in the Philippines By Jessica Keller
QA&Mag News editor
Photo courtesy Aegis Living Aegis Living of Queen Anne on Galer employee Lorcelli Osmillo stands outside the assisted living facility where she has worked for almost five years. Osmillo received a new laptop computer from the company through a technology progam that she sent to her grandson in the Philippines to assist in his studies.
At Aegis Living of Queen Anne on Galer, residents, staff and administrators consider each other family, so when employee Lorcelli Osmillo wanted to help her grandson in the Philippines continue his on-line learning, she turned to her Aegis Living family. Osmillo moved to Seattle from the Philippines almost five years ago, and has worked at Aegis of Queen Anne as part of the housekeeping staff, in charge of laundry, for almost as long. “This is my first job here in America, and I am really happy to be here at Aegis,” Osmillo said. “This is a great place to work at because of the caring people here who are wonderful.” Osmillo works hard to help support her family back in the Philippines: her 9-year-old grandson, Paul Jacob Apeta, his parents, his sisters Paula, 19, and Janine, 16, and Osmillo’s husband. Like students in many U.S. schools, Osmillo’s grandchildren take online classes while schools in the Philippines are closed because of the coronavirus pandemic.
Paul Jacob is in third grade, while Osmillo’s eldest granddaughter is graduating from K-12 school this year. “And they are all scholars,” Osmillo said of her grandchildren. “That’s why I try to work my hardest here to help them, and they are really studying hard, and that makes me proud of them.” While she sends home money to help with her grandchildren’s books and tuition, she wanted to do something extra when the hand-me-down computer that Paul Jacob was using started to fail. Not only was the computer 7 years old, it did not have a camera built in for him to engage with classmates and teacher during class. Osmillo said she wasn’t sure how to help Paul Jacob at first because, at the beginning of the pandemic, there was a shortage of laptops in the Philippines, but she wanted her grandson to have a better computer so he can continue his studies. Then she heard of a number of things Aegis was doing to help support employees during the
SEE AEGIS, PAGE 4
Seattle Public Schools forging ahead with superintendent, in-school instruction plans Some students to return to buildings next week, interim superintendent to begin duties in May QA&Mag News staff report Seattle Public Schools is moving head with plans to return some students for in-school instruction, as well as transitioning to a new superintendent earlier than planned. According to a news release,
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students will begin to return to classrooms on March 29 after SPS and the Seattle Education Association reached a tentative contract agreement last week outlining preschool and elementary student and staff ’s return to school buildings. The agreement, which will
be approved this week, includes a joint commitment to bring pre-kindergarten and elementary special education intensive services pathways students back first. Secondary special education intensive pathways students and all other elementary students whose families choose to send their children back to school for the in-person instructional model will start on April 5. According to the agreement,
to allow students more days of instruction time with classmates, school will resume following a hybrid schedule where students receive part time in-person instruction and part time remote lessons. Under the hybrid model, students will attend either morning or afternoon in-person class four days a week, with remote teaching
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