Always_Ask_Questions,
“this is where we get lost same way as public school unions – are schools for teachers or for kids. If kids were in dire situation, everything should have been done to help them.”
Nobody knew how long the lockdowns would last, because the goalposts kept moving back. Gutting a school’s experienced staff when the students might have been returning to in-person classes fairly soon might not have been a good idea – the repercussions to learning would have been longer lasting than what many thought was going to be a few weeks to months of remote learning. And what about everything else I wrote?
“This is halakha – we allow unlimited competition between teachers, contrary to other businesses where livelihood of store owners is a valid consideration.”
The halacha is dependent on a large number of variables, and the psak for one school or community may be very different than the psak for another.