I hear that the local schools can't find enough substitute teachers.  Duh.  Why would you want to substitute in a Corona infection site.  Two of the teachers in my family have reported that every day, someone in their class tests positive and everyone gets quarantined.  You can't teach like that.

What about free college education?  One of the problems I encountered at the college level:  If a student controlled the federal money he spent on college--the college wouldn't have adequate funding unless they could entice that student to come to their institution.  It became a contest among colleges for students who had federal funds.  

It put colleges in the business of recruiting--to find prospects that had government funding--instead of finding those who were prepared for college. Junior colleges--by the time I retired--had become first year remedial institutions.  That was the unintended consequence of funding students instead of funding colleges.

Along with other professors--I was sent to high schools to recruit these students.  A high percent of them were not ready for college, came one semester, and were gone.  Federally funded--that didn't accomplish anything.  Many weren't ready for college.

By the time I retired, half of my teaching load was remediation.  Basic arithmetic, Algebra I and Algebra II.  Junior high courses--that don't count toward college graduation.  You can't enroll in College Algebra--the basic college requirement in math--without being prepared for it.  Students could have taken remediation courses at a local high school much cheaper. Where he would not be using federal funds for room and board. Incidentally, Oklahoma has the greatest Vo-tech schools in the nation.  Funded by the Oklahoma tax payer.  Why do we push college???