Many Big Apple school kids returned to their classrooms Monday from the Christmas-New Year’s break to find something missing — their teachers.
The latest wave of the COVID-19 pandemic left city schools struggling to operate amid mass staff shortages following the holiday — as parents said infected kids should get the same shortened, five-day isolation period that teachers were recently granted.
Among the hardest hit by a teacher shortage was Clara Barton High School in Brooklyn, where teacher Lydia Howrilka said 46 co-workers called out sick and forced those who showed up to shuttle between classrooms to try to fill in the gaps.
Clara Barton 10th-grader Mya
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