“Due to a lack of staff, it is not advisable to keep the school open today”. The school wrote this in a message to all parents and guardians at Glommasvingen school in Sør-Odal on Wednesday morning. Teaching is available for all stages, except for 1st and 3rd stages. Pupils who have arrived at school must be picked up, write them in the SMS. It was the newspaper Glåmdalen that first mentioned the case. Frequent changes Glommasvingen school at Skarnes in Innlandet has around 900 pupils and over 100 employees. The school opened in autumn 2019 and since then has been characterized by frequent changes, especially in management. On Tuesday afternoon, it became known that the principal and assistant principal at the school had resigned from their jobs. The principal had held the job for just over a year, while the assistant principal started last autumn. This led to reactions. and several teachers chose not to show up at school on Wednesday in protest. The protesting teachers want the principal and the assistant principal to continue in their jobs. Urge to drop protest Municipal director in Sør-Odal municipality, Anita Orlund, according to Glåmdalen newspaper, should have urged employees to show up at the school, so that the situation would not affect the students. On Tuesday, she sent out an SMS to the employees in which, among other things, she wrote that she expected everyone to show up for work in accordance with the employment contract and work obligations, according to the newspaper. news has tried to get hold of the municipal director without success. Head of the Education Association in Sør-Odal, Linn Rastad Sander, will not comment on the matter yet.
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