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Teachers at Mill Creek Middle tell board 'No classroom means no equity' as they urge permanent spaces for multilingual students
Summary
Three Mill Creek Middle School teachers told the board they have no dedicated classrooms, described lost instructional time and low test outcomes, and urged the district to prioritize renovations that would create permanent classroom space.
Three Mill Creek Middle School teachers used the board’s preliminary communication portion on Oct. 8 to describe recurring travel between classrooms, lost instruction time and unequal learning conditions.
Terrell Thorson, a multilingual teacher at Mill Creek, said he travels between five classrooms each day and estimated the repeated transitions cost roughly six minutes per class (three minutes at the start, three minutes at the end). “Add this up over 180 days. It’s over 1,080 minutes and nearly 20 full days of instruction that are lost each year,” Thorson told trustees. He said Mill Creek serves about 860 students this year and that 50.2% qualify for multilingual services — far above the district average of about…
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