- The professional-networking company Fishbowl surveyed 5,673
teachers who used its app about whether they thought schools in their state should resume in-person instruction. - There were differences between states, but teachers largely opposed reopening. A majority of respondents in North Dakota said they thought the state's schools should resume in-person classes, but only barely, with 51.35%.
- This survey was not representative of teachers as a whole, but many teachers — and their unions — have separately been pushing for a remote fall.
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Overall, 73% of the respondents opposed reopening in-person classes in their state.
Fishbowl identified a majority in just one state, North Dakota, as supporting in-person instruction — and just barely, with 51.35% support. In Oklahoma and West Virginia, which Fishbowl said were also among the states most willing to return, just 44.38% and 39.33% of respondents supported doing so.
Conversely, 88.68% of Washington, DC, teachers did not support returning in-person — and they're joined by 86.05% of teachers in Florida and 83.96% in Maryland. The survey was conducted July 29 to August 3.
Many teachers have been outspoken around their concerns returning to an in-person classroom. On August 3, teachers in cities around the US $4, where many expressed support for schools to remain remote.
In Chicago, for instance, $4 to keep Chicago Public Schools remote in the fall — backtracking on CPS' original hybrid-reopening plan.
"We shouldn't have had to fight for our students' lives," Sarah Chambers, a special-education teacher at Chicago's Alcott High School, previously told Business Insider. "There are teachers writing their wills."
And it's not that teachers don't miss the classroom; the prevailing sentiment seems to be more one of maximum safety.
"The state needs to be providing more clarity, so we can have some consistency," Amie Baca-Oehlert, the head of the Colorado