Teachers are “wearing more hats than we ever thought possible,” Nina Esposito-Visgitis testified Tuesday during a Senate Democratic Policy Committee hearing. Educators also serve as counselors, security aides, therapists, referees, surrogate parents, mediators and mask monitors who are losing their planning periods while covering for their colleagues amid a national staffing crisis folded into the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Source: Pennsylvania Capital-Star, February 1, 2022.