At every school there are staff members who work in the background who don’t get as much recognition as teachers and principals.

Without the custodians that keep our school clean and ready for the next day this school just would not function. Students don’t learn well when they are surrounded by dirt and trash.

The custodians stay late and come in early in the morning to clean all possible areas of the school before any of the students arrive on campus.  All of the custodians work together and help each other out as family.

The daily challenge of keeping the campus tidy, makes the bond between stronger, head custodian Johanna Correa said.

Another group of staff members whose work often goes unnoticed is the teacher’s assistants who work with the Life Skills students. They have difficult jobs that do not enjoy the same status or compensation as teachers. These TA’s, as their called, provide extra help to those students who need it more than others do.

“You have to be caring person to do this type of work. If not then it’s not going to be very fun for you working with the students,” teacher’s assistant Altonette Renea Johnsen. “I love doing this job, I won’t trade it for nothing.”

For the life skill teachers to communicate with the parents of the students is with folders that have the names of each students and write notes to them on how it was today and the parents write back to the life skills teacher about that day.