her students are in douglasville, georgia. hers is a virtual classroom, something the county started in 2015 but as teacher vacancies have increased, so have the virtual instructors. >> we move from 10 to 15 to 60 or 70 >> vacancies >> vacancies every year for the past two years. >> reporter: across the country, schools are turning to different sometimes controversial ways to fill the gaps. in texas, some districts are switching to four-day weeks. in florida, some schools are asking military veterans to step in, despite having no classroom experience shaley is ceo of the company that takes virtual teachers and provides the technology and platform to place them via video in classrooms nationwide. she says over the past year, their teacher applications have more than tripled why is this different from what we saw during the covid >> covid was solving the problem of the child having to be at home we are solving the problem of the teacher is not in the zip code and an excellent teacher has to teach the classroom. >> reporter: some

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her students are in douglasville, georgia. hers is a virtual classroom.015. but as teacher vacancies have increased, so have the virtual instructors. >> we moved from 10 to 15, to 60 or 70. >> vacancies. >> every year? >> every year. for the past two years. >> across the country schools are turning to different sometimes controversial ways to fill the gaps. in texas, some small districts are switching too four-day weeks and in florida some schools are asking military veterans to step in, despite having no classroom experience. shayly is ceo of elevate k-12, that takes virtual teachers and provides the technology and platform to place them via video in classrooms nationwide. she said over the past year, their teacher applications have more than tripled. >> why this different from what we saw during the covid -- >> covid was solving the problem of the child has to be at home. we are solving the problem of the teacher is not in the zip code and an excellent teacher has to teach the classroom. >> but some critics say that in person student/teacher bond is cru

. >> this teacher is in florida, her students are in douglasville, georgia. hers is a virtual classroom. something that has started in 2015. but as teacher vacancies have increased, so have the virtual instructors. >> we moved from 10 to 15, to 60 or 70. >> vacancies. >> every year? >> every year. for the past two years. >> across the country, schools are turning to different, sometimes controversial ways to fill the gaps. >> in texas, some small districts are switching to four-day weeks. and in florida, some schools are asking military veterans to step in, despite having no classroom experience. the ceo of elevate k-12, the company that takes virtual teachers like ms. garzaon and provides the technology and platform to place them via video in class rooms nationwide. she says over the past year, their teacher applications have more than tripled. >> why y-is this different from what we saw during the covid response? >> i think we're solving the problem that the child is at home and we are solving the problem that a teacher is not in the zip code and an expert