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For more than a decade, Pennsylvania’s pool of new teachers has been shrinking, placing added pressure on those who go into teaching.

"We had kids that came to ninth grade who hadn't been in school for two years. So they didn't develop the social skills that they needed."

"We are starting to see shortages in especially our rural areas. Positions for school psychologists left open year after year with no one to fill them."

"We're kind of hoping, and we're being promised that these test kits — over the counter test kits and antigen test kits — are going to become more readily available."

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"If those people can't get tested and those people don't get vaccinated, then they're not going to be able to go to school and that is going to cause major problems for schools to be able to be reopened."

"I want them to know that it's personal for so many of us."

"I think everybody is a little bit nervous about where we're going from here."

NAME: Marissa McNamaraTwitter: @MarissaMcNamaraSCHOOL/ORGANIZATION: Professional Learning & Innovation Center- a division of Broome-Tioga BOCES TITLE:…

Rachel Murat is a Social Studies teacher at Maine-Endwell.