Despite the state's schools being closed and providing supervision only for students who have nowhere else to go, teachers will return to empty classrooms until the Easter holidays start on Friday and prepare a new way to deliver lessons next term.

Unlike other professions, if teachers wanted to work from home they would have to either take sick leave, long service, or leave without pay, and still be expected to provide lessons.

A new plan of what education will look like in Term 2 is set to be released this week.

One teacher told WAtoday it was “ridiculous” that while they were told to isolate and stay home, hundreds of teachers, and their own children, were still expected to leave their homes to go to school to work online.

North Metropolitan MLC Peter Collier asked Education Minister Sue Ellery in Parliament last week to confirm whether some teachers and school staff could be exempt from having to use their leave entitlements if they wanted to work remotely.