That's not relevant. If I am an employee and the company doesn't make money, I expect to get paid for the work that I did. So, the principle is ....is this employment or not.
The....well, schools didn't used to make money so it was ok. But, now, they make money, so I want mine is BS.
That's another part of this that people haven't thought through. If it's employment at the University of Florida, it's employment at Mississippi Valley State.
And with that thought, it's employment in high school.
A cashier at Mom and Pop Hardware store is entitled to be paid the same way a cashier at Home Depot is entitled to be paid. The fact that one business barely breaks even and the other is a massive corporation doesn't change the fact that both are employees and both need to be paid.
So, what this sets up is a small number of schools who can pay and a whole bunch of schools who can't.