As someone who has been there, Zhang Tiejun understands the mindset of those young teachers in Class 13; when you're in your twenties or thirties, you're ambitious.
No matter if he talks to these teachers or not, this issue will eventually blow up in the office, and the Vice Principal in charge of teaching will be the first to deal with it, but in the end, the buck will stop with him.
A middle school is not as big as a university.
Although most teachers who lead the less advanced classes do not have tenure, he indeed needs to consider their perspectives and find a way to reassure them at this time.
There's no way around it, this era of the internet really seems to echo the old saying, "blessings and misfortunes come hand in hand."
