The shortage isn't actually teachers but non-teacher staff positions. It has mainly been created by schools having extra covid relief money laying around.
News flash: societies conquer one another. Best way to avoid being conquered in turn is to set incentives for achievement and self-reliance — and to export that culture. Dressing professionally is one tiny part of that puzzle. A far more important part is to stop multiculturalism. It’s all well and good to enjoy different types of food and art. But when your society lacks the ability to communicate with itself due to language barriers and has diverse behavioral standards then it will crumble and be conquered.
Oh, you don’t know what multiculturalism is! Interesting!
News flash: societies conquer one another. Best way to avoid being conquered in turn is to set incentives for achievement and self-reliance — and to export that culture. Dressing professionally is one tiny part of that puzzle. A far more important part is to stop multiculturalism. It’s all well and good to enjoy different types of food and art. But when your society lacks the ability to communicate with itself due to language barriers and has diverse behavioral standards then it will crumble and be conquered.
To your civil rights point, the situation is far worse than you might imagine. Government schools and handout / welfare programs have been corrupting poor kids disproportionately for as long as they have existed. There is a strong positive relationship between government ‘services’ and cultural rot. The standard chorus is ‘send more money and the problems will go away’. But they only get worse. And now they can’t even attract enough sane / competent people to ‘teach’ in their propaganda camps... Is it ‘racist’ to plug poor and black people into the matrix and destroy their communities? Who knows. But using community resources to create backwards incentives sure is cruel and destructive.
Too much there to unpack. You don't seem to understand multiculturalism in the least.
Nor do you seem to understand very basic history and its impact on minorities.
Nor do you seem to understand basic child development, ACEs, or any other myriad issues that affect students in schools, or in society as a whole.
Using a forum to propagate your ignorance is fairly cruel and destructive itself.
Teachers are quitting because they are poorly paid, poorly supported, evaluated by how their students pass standardized testing, blamed for everything by crappy parents and right wing extremists. Am I missing anything?
I'd love to see folks argue against these rock solid points.
If you think it is just right wingers who are making it tough on teachers, you are sorely mistaken. Lots of liberal parents, usually parents of kids at one extreme or other on the socio-economic ladder, want everything given to little Tommy or Kaitlynn with little to no effort on the part of the entitled imps.
People who are not teachers are really failing to understand that a teacher does not just roll out of bed at 7:30 and grab some coffee before teaching class at 8.
I actually have some co-workers who do this. They are the minority, but they are there. This is one frustrating thing about being a teacher. Those teachers make the same amount as the excellent ones beside them.
I teach a higher grade HS course. I get students who can't do basic functions from the lower levels. The equivalent is getting crappy parts and being expected to make good final products from them. It sucks!
People who are not teachers are really failing to understand that a teacher does not just roll out of bed at 7:30 and grab some coffee before teaching class at 8.
I actually have some co-workers who do this. They are the minority, but they are there. This is one frustrating thing about being a teacher. Those teachers make the same amount as the excellent ones beside them.
I teach a higher grade HS course. I get students who can't do basic functions from the lower levels. The equivalent is getting crappy parts and being expected to make good final products from them. It sucks!
And this is a major aspect of the issue. There’s a few bad police officers, so ALL get labeled bad. There’s a few bad nurses, so ALL get labeled bad. There’s a few bad teachers, so ALL get labeled bad. There are teachers that are always working. If you do it well then it’s very hard to clock in and out in your mind. You’re always thinking about how to reach struggling students while at the same time not holding back the advanced ones.
It’s a very difficult profession if you actually care. I would say that most do care but there are a few that don’t. They have created the bad taste in many peoples mouths and created a strange societal hatred towards the teaching profession. Let’s start by not labeling everyone with a stereotype. This a big reason young people are running away from the profession.
You linked a bunch articles sponsored by the public education cartel that seemed to push narratives rather than give actual data. I did not read every word but I'd need to seem some data to show widespread shortages nationwide.
Why would be having shortages, if we indeed we are, I'm guessing its localized. Here would be my guesses at the causes. A highly progressive "leftist" culture that makes it impossible for anyone on the right or center to be apart of the profession. Districts with major issues as far as crime, poor attendance, etc. where teachers don't want to teach. Artificial shortages created by teachers unions.
Dude, you are so far out of touch with reality that it is baffling. I am one of the most conservative posters on here, and I am also a teacher. I think you have K-12 teachers confused with university professors.
Loving this promo image featuring a guy who dresses for the gym and then (surprise!) he is actually going to teach your children. No wonder kids later show up for work looking like slobs.
Man, I totally forgot that the teachers are the ones setting fashion trends for students. Thanks for reminding me where they choose their styles.
oh and my the thing that really gets people going.
I am against mandatory attendance for secondary education. If "school aint your thang" then immediately enroll those kids in GED prep classes and move them on.
Or come up with a way for them to do apprenticeships and earn a diploma/certification that way.
My local school district currently says they can’t fill 20 teaching positions. How is that not a shortage?
Do you realize how many teaching positions there are in a district? I work in a medium size district with 15 elementary schools, 5 middle schools, 3 high schools, 2 charter schools, and 4 alternative resource schools. That’s 29 schools. If we ever had only 20 open positions, we would like be at a >99% fill rate of teaching positions. You must live in the least teacher-shortage district in the country.
What?!?!?! The district I work in has ten schools. We are not considered a small district. The guy you responded to may be in an even smaller district. Neighboring districts here have around five schools in them, and one only has three.
I teach a higher grade HS course. I get students who can't do basic functions from the lower levels. The equivalent is getting crappy parts and being expected to make good final products from them. It sucks!
Given the right environment, I actually enjoy teaching the kids who don't have the right foundations and tools. Extremely challenging to be sure, but very rewarding when you see them making connections. Teachers get unfairly criticized in most circumstances, but kids are simply moved on and up even if they haven't come close to understanding concepts and ideas. Some blame should go to teachers who simply aren't equipped or motivated to reach and teach the harder cases. But the education system is generally set up in a way that many kids, even the bright ones who think a little differently, get excluded and left behind.
The ex and current teachers who jump up and say their teaching job is a piece of cake have not been doing the job professionally. They are the problem. The ones who have not been on the job just do not know what they are talking about.
You have it backwards. Most of the best teachers love the job and say it the easiest thing ever. Most f the worst teachers complain how hard it is.
It is only easy if you are very good at it. You have to be able to handle a very diverse group of kids, and also be able to effectively explain concepts that they need to know. It takes thick skin, a sense of humor, and a real concern for the students. It is not something that very many are good at. Some are good at two of the three, but suck at the third one, and they hate the job because of it.
I know of a lot of schools that are not fully staffed. My current school is short two teachers, and has had to hire "babysitter" subs for the year. We are 1/4 of the way through, with neither job filled.
By and large Liberal, educated parents are much more invested in their kids education. More liberal state = more educated and better scores. My city is among the most liberal in the country, our public high schools (all 3 of them) are in the top 10-15 of schools state-wide (out of thousands)! Schools go the way of parent engagement. Two parent households def help. Parents parents parents. Our schools have no secret sauce on the curriculum. Its engaged, non conspiracy theory spewing, educated parents.
There's a shortage because the smartest graduates can't be bothered babysitting kids who are abusive and don't even want to learn, teaching low level mundane subject matter, doing endless paperwork and dealing with annoying parents and management.
UK schools are full of teachers with 3rd class degrees who were too stupid to work as software developers or management consultants.
