Montana City School support staff reinvent systems due to COVID

The newly enacted pandemic-based system used to deliver student lunches at Montana City School reminds one of a military logistics operation. 

With the use of a centralized lunchroom shelved due to COVID-19 restrictions, the food service staff, led by Lauren Oelkers, had to reinvent how it carries out its mission. 

And to make it work, the entire school support staff lends a hand to give teachers a break in a day that has changed dramatically due to the virus. For that reason, the school’s food service workers, its head of maintenance, paraprofessionals, as well as the school nurse, have been enlisted to help and adapt their own duties, and not unlike the teachers they support, these staffers are also on the pandemic front lines.