Someone still has to teach the classes.

Your rowdy kids aren't sitting right next to their friends. And they aren't distracting the whole class. I bet administrators are thinking teachers could handle larger classes online. Not saying that's necessarily true. But it could be the thinking.

I'm thinking that if they are going with half the students coming in on some days and the other half coming in on other days, they probably won't need as many substitute teachers in my district here in Texas, if they don't go completely remote.

Only 1/5th of the kids are physically in the room on a given day, but all are in class. All the teachers would still have to work, no?

...the great unraveling has begun.

Thanks, Coronavirus.

And my school is reducing class-sizes

I have a friend who left to raise a child and had a right to a job if she came back in three years.

And I’m sure the contract has terms about “need” or demand.