North Texas school nurses are asking for pay increases after a COVID-19 passage that allowed salary cuts.
Dozens of school employees are planning to show up at the school board meeting in Fort Worth demanding action from board members after their pay was unexpectedly cut.
There were so many superheroes in our school during the pandemic teachers were celebrating parents and vice versa and school nurses were right in the middle of it. "Everybody who came in the door had to check in with me that went on for weeks months, then we brought children back to school and that’s when it got ugly," said Nanette Cowain, a school nurse.
"We underwent a lot of scrutinies it used to be when a kid is coughing in class you take a few sips of water, go back to class, you don’t have a fever, but during the covid pandemic you were told to send them home," said Margaret Gant, a school nurse.Download NBC 5 Dallas-Fort Worth