Dear Reading Public School Community,

First and foremost, we want to thank you for the amount of support we have received from members of the community willing to volunteer at Reading Memorial High School.  We appreciate how people are willing to take time out of their schedules to support our hybrid model.

We have decided that out of an abundance of caution, we will not be pursuing using volunteers at Reading Memorial High School.  Our primary concern is the additional number of adults that we will be introducing into our cohorts and the impact that this could have with community spread in our schools, especially where the numbers in Reading have been on a steady increase over the last few weeks.  Part of our health plan since September has been to limit the number of visitors and additional adults in our schools and with the potential need of up to 20 volunteers per day or 300 volunteers over the one month period, it could increase the chances of COVID cases in our schools.

It is still our intent to transition to the full hybrid model at Reading Memorial High School.  To that end we still need paraeducator positions to address that need.  We have 10 paraeducator openings and we are willing to look at job share positions as a possible solution as well.  If you are interested in applying for one of these positions, please contact Superintendent of Schools John Doherty at john.doherty@reading.k12.ma.us.

Thank you.  Please contact me if you have any further questions.

John F. Doherty

Superintendent

Reading Public Schools

82 Oakland Road

Reading, MA 01867

781-944-5800