As Teachers' Unions Push for Remote Schooling Again, Parents Worry. So Do Democrats.

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8. In my southern Illinois HS of 2100 we opened Wednesday but...

It seems we are headed toward some of remote schooling for a couple of weeks whether anyone likes it or not. Every day they publish a quarantine list of students. The highest it got last semester was about 105... as of the end of Friday it was at 211 or 10% of the student population. Remote learning was so ineffective last year, however, that admins have pledged to "power through" regardless of how many students have to periodically miss because they've calculated that more learning is going on in the school even if large percentages of students are missing. The bigger problem is staffing and specifically bus-drivers. Surrounding districts have struggled to find bus drivers even before the recent covid surge. Now if there is a weak link I was informed to keeping the schools open that will be it. They can cover for teachers in the classrooms a lot of times with administrators or support personal or other teachers on prep periods... but with too many bus drivers testing positive and out for 10 calendar days, we will be shutting down soon I expect sometime this coming week.