Because "remote learning" is a joke.
I volunteered a bit in a virtual high school classroom. The teacher running it is making a frankly heroic effort to keep her students in the school system at all.
But no one was engaged, cameras were off, students regularly don't show up at all or drop off in the middle of class.
These are comparatively adults compared to younger grades.
Remote work is often a joke, too. Many, many people are completely checked out, burnt out after having to endure too many mentally draining and often pointless zoom meetings. I know several folks planning to drop out of the work force for a while, when (if?) we return to a semblance of normality. That'll push salaries even higher for the ones who remain.
so how come they are able to function pre-pandemic, having the same meetings in the office?
I also feel there are more meetings now than pre pandemic.
> One student tested positive IN THE AUDITORIUM, and a few students started screaming and ran away from him.
I suggest fixing the ludicrously miscalibrated risk assessment of omicron as a better route. How many of these legions of absent teachers even have symptoms?
Teachers in the US usually have 80% of their time spent spent teaching with 20% prep and duties (lunchroom or recess). Now you get a few people out with no subs available and you have teachers combining classes or covering others, leaving no prep time or unmanageable classroom sizes. Add to that a room of kids preoccupied with covid concerns and unable to concentrate.