and in portland, the teachers union has proposed shifting to one at-home instruction day per week for high school students and one shorter school day for elementary and middle school students, all this despite congress doling out a whopping $189 billion in its three covid relief bills to shore up k-12 education. we're back with kim■ç strassel, bill mcgurn and jill january mel key your -- gillian mel key your. our money has gone to the public schools in the past three covid bills, where's that money going if teachers once again are staying at home? >> yeah. it almost makes you think this isn't a money issue. i'm looking at this situation, and for sure teachers face some challenges. you have kids with mental health issues that are unprecedented, depression, all sorts of things. but that's predictable if they've been out of regular school for more than a year. mckenzie looked at this, they were finding on average