Your plumber has voluntarily customers; more and more of those paying teachers have no children at all. I’m in NJ and live near a school; at 3:00:01 there is a mad stampede as the teachers bolt to their cars. As for “working at home”, I know enough teachers to know that’s total BS - if it can’t be verified (by remote login, etc.) it is an outright lie - based on the lack of results among other things. Our students go to school 180 days per year.
Well I can’t vouch for New Jersey. The Northeast seems to have succumbed to the cancer of liberalism which has infected and is destroying all the country’s institutions. We may have a short reprieve with Pres. Trump but I don’t think he can change it all by himself.