“I do think things have stabilized,” said School Board member George Sieburg. The math teachers worked with her son’s main instructor, a popular and committed long-term substitute who was not licensed to teach math, Lubelski said. They were “cobbling it together while they looked for a math teacher and that took like, months,” Lubelski said. (It’s a collaboration between the superintendent and principals, based on the number of allotted positions for each school, Fehrman said.) Asheville Watchdog is a nonprofit news team producing stories that matter to Asheville and Buncombe County.