It certainly doesn’t toll for students in a growing number of districts, thanks to the paranoia surrounding Covid-19. Over the last few weeks, we’ve seen teachers sending copies of their wills to government officials. Others carried what looked like coffins in protests against having to–gasp–go back to work. Now, as the school year is supposed to start around the nation, school districts find themselves caught between the rock of government Covid regulations and the hard place of teachers who have decided they don’t want to do their jobs.