This is the Education Briefing, a weekly update on the most important news in U.S. education. Sign up here to get this newsletter in your inbox. ‘They see us as the enemy’ The coronavirus hasn’t gone away.
Neither have school staffing problems. And parent protests against pandemic restrictions have only grown stronger. School nurses, already overworked, increasingly find themselves under fire from parents for enforcing public health rules that they did not make and cannot change. “They just basically hate you,” said Anne Lebouef, a school nurse in Louisiana, who said that she cries several times a week. “They’re yelling at you.