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I wouldn't doubt that at all. I can speak to the teachers I know and that at the beginning of COVID most of them felt like going virtual was the right decision and quite a few didn't go back when just a few weeks later they were expected back in the classroom. Some more left the next school year as they were expected to do "hybrid" teaching where they had some students in the classroom and some online simultaneously.

The numbers would seem to bear that out, too, as in 2019 it was estimated the state had around 2,000 teacher vacancies that were unfilled and that's up to 5,300 this month.