If I were making two or three times' a teacher salary and still on work from home I would probably make an attempt at, like, not sending staff and children back to super unsafe conditions! Demanding the city support outdoor lunch with staffing and tents, providing home tests, sending out N95 masks, delineating a streamlined and supported contact tracing process would all be among my first steps.

Just on an optics level, our senior management fails every time. They're laying off several hundred teachers but just two directors (and hiring one additional executive director). They're still working from home because the district offices aren't safe but sending staff and students back into dubiously safe conditions (ventilation is still a problem; classrooms are freezing). Nor do they even try to justify these choices.

This has a real cost. Staff who were on the fence about quitting are quitting. The retired teachers who comprise most of the substitute pool are opting out until conditions improve. The people who are left will be taking on more work, with fewer supports and more stressed families. 

One thing we can count on is no help from above. We are on our own. And when it fails, it will be on us. As always, management will skate.