re: Don’t pay teachers to not teach!

I can say our district has already decided if schools “close” again we won’t be getting paid. Which I understand would seem like an obvious choice. Except that schools never closed in the first place. They just forced a transition to online. From March to May we were holding zoom classes, finding was to have creative assignments online. Having to learn new online curriculums. I understand for larger schools and universities, they have a pretty solid handle on online teaching. Smaller schools like us were near clueless. Not to mention low income areas like ours, half the population did not have internet access or laptops so we had to hand print the online material and mail deliver to students. I’m not complaining about what we had to do that’s just what the situation demanded.
And I can promise you if schools have to “close” again, we will be doing it the same way but with more experience and more successfully. And from what it sounds, having to do it for free.