Staffing Using Student
Labor- By Dorothy Pannell Martin
Filling part-time positions
is often hard and in some cases nearly impossible. The need for
part-time employees,
particularly
in the high schools, is common. Staffing with more hours than needed
to fill a position — in order to attract a person — causes
much of the overstaffing that exists in schools.
To solve this problem, many school districts are employing students
or clubs/classes to fill the need. Below describes what three different
school districts have done. Contract a Club/Class
Collier County Public Schools in Naples, Florida,
has two different programs using student labor to increase serving
efficiency and save
money for the district’s school food-service program.
Fundraising
This all came about because schools were constantly
looking for fundraisers — and often these fundraisers became
competitive sales for the school’s foodservice program. Sheila
Sheridan, Director, and Bill Goulding, Specialist, with Collier
County School
Food Service program have attacked this problem by setting up a selling
area or station at high schools — stocked the area with products
for student to sell.
The student, teacher, and parent volunteers operate the station
and in turn receive 10% of the gross sales for the club they represent.
If they sold $400 worth of products, the club receives $40 — deposited
into the club’s account.
Last school year Lely High School one club
sold over $100,000. The school may choose to rotate this means
of making money for the club
among the different clubs. As student leaders have said, “This
sure beats the week-end car washes.” A club can sign up to
operate the station for a two-week block of time or for a semester.
Janey Thornton, Director of Child Nutrition in Hardin
County (KY) Schools, reports excellent experience with work agreements
between
food services and classes/clubs. The club or
class agrees to provide two students the entire lunch period. The
same students are to work a minimum of one week at a time.
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| Work Agreement Used by Hardin
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