Teachers and other employees of US military schools who have been working without pay during the government shutdown received letters this week telling them they owed money to the government, CNN has learned.

Classrooms are shaped by emotion, relationships and unpredictability. Teachers in a study described a widening gap between AI policy expectations and the realities of classrooms.

According to an email from two Wake County schools, which was obtained by WRAL News, the school is anticipating “higher-than-normal” staff shortages on Friday, Nov. 7, and Monday, Nov. 10, adding that it was in preparation for planned walkouts among schools in the district.

Minneapolis has the threat of a teachers strike looming for the second time in three years, and some parents — still with hard feelings about the last walkout — could see their lives disrupted anew.

Some teachers are talking about calling out of work again on Nov. 10 and Nov. 17 to protest lack of new state pay raises.

Since ChatGPT and other large language models burst into public consciousness, school boards are drafting policies, universities are hosting symposiums and tech companies are relentlessly promoting their latest AI-powered learning tools.