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By Michael Melia | The Associated Press | The Sacramento Observer<\/p>\n

HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) \u2014 Principals, superintendents and counselors are filling in as substitutes in classrooms as the surge in coronavirus infections further strains schools that already had been struggling with staffing shortages.<\/p>\n

In Cincinnati, dozens of employees from the central office were dispatched this week to schools that were at risk of having to close because of low staffing. The superintendent of Boston schools, Brenda Cassellius, tweeted Wednesday she was filling in for a fifth grade teacher. San Francisco\u2019s school system asked any employees with teaching credentials to be available for classroom assignments.<\/p>\n

Staff absences and the omicron variant-driven surge have led some big districts including Atlanta, Detroit and Milwaukee\u00a0to switch temporarily to virtual learning<\/a>. Where schools are holding the line on in-person learning, getting through the day has required an all-hands-on-deck approach.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s absolutely exhausting,\u201d said history teacher Deborah Schmidt, who was covering other classes during her planning period at McKinley Classical Leadership Academy in St. Louis. On Thursday, she was covering a physics class.<\/p>\n

In a school year when teachers are being asked to help students recover from the pandemic, some say they are dealing with overwhelming stress just trying to keep classes running.<\/p>\n

\u201cI had a friend say to me, \u2018You know, three weeks ago we were locking our doors because of school shootings again, and now we\u2019re opening the window for COVID.\u2019 It\u2019s really all a bit too much,\u201d said Meghan Hatch-Geary, an English teacher at Woodland Regional High School in Connecticut. \u201cThis year, trying to fix everything, trying to be everything for everyone, is more and more exhausting all the time.\u201d<\/p>\n

Labor tensions have been highest in Chicago, where\u00a0classes were canceled<\/a>\u00a0after the teachers union voted to refuse in-person instruction, but union leaders in many school systems have been clamoring for more flexibility on virtual learning, additional testing and other protections against the virus.<\/p>\n

In New Haven, Connecticut, where hundreds of teachers have been out each day this week, administrators have helped to cover classrooms. When her classroom aide did not show up for work Wednesday, special education teacher Jennifer Graves borrowed paraprofessionals from other classrooms for short stretches to get through the day at Dr. Reginald Mayo Early Childhood School \u2014 an arrangement that was difficult and confusing for her young students with disabilities.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s very difficult to get through my lesson plans when somebody doesn\u2019t know your students, when somebody is not used to working with students with disabilities,\u201d Graves said. \u201cSome students need sensory inputs, some students need to be spoon-fed. So it\u2019s very hard to train someone on the spot.\u201d<\/p>\n

Even before infection rates took off around the holidays, many districts were struggling to keep up staffing levels, particularly among substitutes and other lower-paid positions. As a result, teachers have been spread thin for months, said Becky Pringle, president of the National Education Association.<\/p>\n

\u201cAll of these additional burdens and stresses on top of being worried about getting sick, on top of being stressed like all of us are to after a two-year pandemic \u2026 it just compounded to put us in a place that we are now,\u201d Pringle said in an interview.<\/p>\n

Some administrators have already been helping for months in classrooms and cafeterias to fill in for sick and quarantining staff.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re not in love with the circumstances, but we\u2019re happy to do the work because the work is making sure that we\u2019re here for our kids,\u201d said Mike Cornell, superintendent of the Hamburg Central School District in New York, who spent time this fall on cafeteria duty poking straws into juice pouches and peeling lids off chips to fill staffing gaps.<\/p>\n

Among the schools that went virtual this week because of staffing shortages was second grade teacher Anna Tarka-DiNunzio\u2019s school of roughly 200 students in Pittsburgh. Some taught their students despite being sick with the virus, said Tarka-DiNunzio, who was disappointed to hear some characterize staffing shortages as the result of teachers arbitrarily taking off work.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s not just people calling off. It\u2019s people who are sick or who have family members who are sick,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

The strains on schools this week might have been even tougher if not for large numbers of students being absent themselves. In New Haven, teachers say classes have been only about half full.<\/p>\n

Jonathan Berryman, a music teacher, said some of his students haven\u2019t shown up for weeks. He worries what that will mean for the performance targets set for students and their teachers.<\/p>\n

\u201cBefore omicron came along, there was fairly smooth sailing. Now the ship has been rocked,\u201d he said. \u201cWe get to make midyear adjustments in our evaluation system. And some I\u2019m sure are wondering whether we should even be concerned about that academic progress piece.\u201d<\/p>\n

Graves, who is in her 12th year of teaching in New Haven, said that she is grateful for administrators who have been helping out in classrooms and the aides who have pitched in, but that her students have struggled with the lack of consistency in staffing.<\/p>\n

She also has been frustrated with quickly changing health protocols, and worried about the health of herself and her extended family. Most of her young students are not able to tolerate wearing masks for long stretches, and many have been coughing lately.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is the hardest year I\u2019ve had,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

Contributing to this report were Associated Press writers Carolyn Thompson in Buffalo, New York, Kantele Franko in Columbus, Ohio, and Heather Hollingsworth in Mission, Kansas.<\/p>\n

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