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Retired educator says lunch monitors— behavior amounted to "verbal abuse"; board told district acknowledges the problem
2852669 · April 2, 2025
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A retired educator who volunteered as a lunch monitor described frequent yelling and punitive treatment of students in school cafeterias, and said district administrators acknowledged the problem when she raised it.
At the public-comment portion of the April 1 Mount Vernon City School District Board of Education meeting, retired educator Linda Castro described repeated misconduct by lunch monitors that prompted her recent resignation.
Castro said she began serving as a lunch monitor at Honor Academy in February 2019 and resigned after becoming "very…
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