UEA survey: Urban/rural divide among teachers, low support for work stoppage - KSL.com

42% of teachers said that all school buildings statewide should close temporarily while another 42% said that those decisions should be made on a local level and that the UEA should not focus on statewide solutions.

While just 8% of teachers in rural districts said they would support such an action.

Matthews said she is reading over more than 300 pages of comments from Utah teachers and that 88% responded that they are overwhelmed and stressed from the increased workload.

While acknowledging the stress teachers are under this year, Granite School District spokesperson Ben Horsley said virus transmission in the classroom is very low.

"Last June and July when we were planning for this school year and thought that we would have less than 2% or 3% transmission rate on school property we would have been so excited about those figures," Horsley said.