Henrico Schools’ officials post, then remove, job listings for in-person roles

Job postings for nearly 80 classroom monitors and for substitute teachers countywide – with roles beginning Nov. 16, the first day of the second nine weeks of school in Henrico – appeared briefly on the Henrico County government’s job listing website this week but then disappeared sometime Tuesday or Wednesday.

The presence of the listings caused some in the community to deduce that the Henrico School Board would vote Thursday to provide some form of in-person learning to those families who want it – beginning that same day – thereby necessitating more in-person help.

Two speakers during Tuesday night’s virtual listening session with Tuckahoe District School Board member Marcie Shea and Brookland District member Kristi Kinsella suggested as much – with one wondering aloud if the board already had made up its mind and suggesting that Tuesday’s input session was nothing more than a “charade” if so, while another urged viewers to vote out board members if that ends up being the case.

Henrico Schools spokesman Andy Jenks told the Citizen Wednesday that the jobs were removed because they contained an error in the rate of pay. He expected them to be posted again soon – probably after tomorrow’s board meeting.

The board will meet beginning at 2 p.m., with a public comment session from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. – just after the board receives a recommendation for the second nine weeks from its health committee and Superintendent Amy Cashwell. The board then will vote to adopt a plan after the comment session.

A source in the school system told the Citizen Wednesday that leadership teams at individual schools haven’t been told what the role of classroom monitors would be. The school system also has plans to hire nurses’ aides who will man “isolation” rooms in each school for anyone suspected of having COVID-19 once districtwide in-person learning resumes, but it hasn’t done so yet.