Yesterday was a wonderful day at Club as we added over one hundred new members to our 2022/23 afterschool membership. Some were brand new to Club, others were familiar faces from the summer who all the staff were excited to see again.
Not just staff, but the right staff. At the time of writing this blog the Club needs 12 staff to absorb our waitlist of children and families needing after school care. For those families on the waitlist this is a stressful time. Work schedules have been disrupted, some are unable to work and as the Club is the major after school provider in our community, few have other options to fall back on.
This school year will bring us a lot of change. A number of significant changes to the structure and operation of the Lake Tahoe Unified School District will go into effect at the start of this school year. The Club has been busy working on our response to those changes.
During the stress and anxiety of the Caldor Fire it was easy to forget that other little issue we've now been living with for 18 months - the COVID 19 pandemic. In the week before Tahoe evacuated over 150 positive cases were recorded at schools in Carson and the fire merely delayed an inevitable increase in cases amongst our children once they were back in their classrooms. So what can we do to prevent an outbreak of a magnitude that will shut our schools again?