Supporting West High School Student Protest and Solidarity to Reinstate Profe Zorko

It’s important to recognize that Profe Deana Zorko has been working through her Union since last spring on an accommodation to allow her to continue to teach virtually. This whole situation could have been avoided had MMSD made the appropriate accommodations in the summer instead of in the final hour, thus negatively impacting our scholars, both physically at West High School (as they now have to re-adjust to another teacher) and virtually (as they are only now able to have a qualified educator like Profe Zorko guide them). In lieu of the district’s obstinance to treat this situation humanely, they put the financial and emotional toll of accommodating Profe Zorko’s needs on West administration and staff to make this work.

We appreciate the compassionate collaboration with West’s principal, Karen Boran on this personnel matter. We will continue to support our Union sibling throughout this trying time and hope that the District doesn’t just do the bare minimum when it comes to supporting a medically vulnerable human teaching our community’s scholars.

We also encourage the community to sign the student-generated petition: https://tinyurl.com/studentpetitionZorko