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Back to school: do you have enough teachers?
Posted on 8/6/22 at 2:04 pm
Posted on 8/6/22 at 2:04 pm
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Rural school districts in Texas are switching to four-day weeks this fall due to lack of staff. Florida is asking veterans with no teaching background to enter classrooms. Arizona is allowing college students to step in and instruct children.
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It is hard to know exactly how many U.S. classrooms are short of teachers for the 2022-2023 school year; no national database precisely tracks the issue. But state- and district-level reports have emerged across the country detailing staffing gaps that stretch from the hundreds to the thousands — and remain wide open as summer winds rapidly to a close.
Why are America’s schools so short-staffed? Experts point to a confluence of factors including pandemic-induced teacher exhaustion, low pay and some educators’ sense that politicians and parents — and sometimes their own school board members — have little respect for their profession amid an escalating educational culture war that has seen many districts and states pass policies and laws restricting what teachers can say about U.S. history, race, racism, gender and sexual orientation, as well as LGBTQ issues.
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KANSAS CITY METRO (KCTV) - The nationwide teacher shortage is forcing school districts in Kansas and Missouri to make some big changes, including 4-day weeks for some and hefty sign-on bonuses for new employees.
The Missouri Department of Education and Secondary Education says there were more than 3,000 in-state teaching positions that had to be left vacant or filled by unqualified candidates last school year. Educators spoke with the state Board of Education’s Blue-Ribbon Commission Wednesday about their concerns heading into this school year.
This post was edited on 8/6/22 at 2:14 pm
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Posted on 8/6/22 at 2:05 pm to High C
We don’t need no education.
Posted on 8/6/22 at 2:06 pm to High C
They should let OT ballers teach as well
Posted on 8/6/22 at 2:06 pm to High C
We have plenty of teachers. Probably because our school district pays an average of $85k a year
Posted on 8/6/22 at 2:13 pm to High C
Our district (where I used to work but still have clients in) has a 70 route bus driver shortage, around 150 teacher shortage (even after pulling district resource teachers to cover), and per district surveys a whole slew ready to quit if shite doesn’t get turned around in a hurry.
Posted on 8/6/22 at 2:20 pm to BluegrassBelle
I was having a discussion with a colleague about whether or not our country may be forced to transition away from on-site, school based education. COVID allowed everyone to see what this would look like.
I don’t know. There would have to be some major changes in a whole bunch of areas to sustain the system that we currently have, imo. People just don’t want to do this job anymore, for a myriad of reasons.
I don’t know. There would have to be some major changes in a whole bunch of areas to sustain the system that we currently have, imo. People just don’t want to do this job anymore, for a myriad of reasons.
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Posted on 8/6/22 at 2:22 pm to High C
Cancel school. That's what the internet is for
Posted on 8/6/22 at 2:24 pm to High C
School bus driver shortages. I’ve read that some of the students aren’t scheduled to get to school until an hour after it’s started.
Posted on 8/6/22 at 2:26 pm to High C
Pay more and get rid of the dead weight.
Posted on 8/6/22 at 2:27 pm to High C
In Texas, no shortage of Baylor grads to teach at our schools.
Posted on 8/6/22 at 2:29 pm to Jcorye1
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get rid of the dead weight.
That would begin in each district’s central office.
Posted on 8/6/22 at 2:29 pm to High C
I run the website Texas Prep Softball for our softball coaches and I've been working on the directory and over 250 schools changed head softball coaches this summer. The most I had ever seen before was about 150.
Athletic Directors are telling me they can't find them and either will have to just get someone on the staff who has never coached softball or their school may not play this year.
I've had a couple inquire if I want to come out of retirement again and coach and I've said no so far.
Athletic Directors are telling me they can't find them and either will have to just get someone on the staff who has never coached softball or their school may not play this year.
I've had a couple inquire if I want to come out of retirement again and coach and I've said no so far.
Posted on 8/6/22 at 2:30 pm to High C
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I was having a discussion with a colleague about whether or not our country may be forced to transition away from on-site, school based education. COVID allowed everyone to see what this would look like.
It would certainly cut down on the resources we waste to keep kids in school everyday only to find out by their 18th birthday they still know very little that was ever taught to them inside the school.
On the flipside they absorb every ounce of shitty cultural trends social media and entertainment people spit into their brains.
Posted on 8/6/22 at 2:32 pm to BRgetthenet
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That would begin in each district’s central office.
Probably, but I was always shocked growing up just how many shitty teachers there are.
Posted on 8/6/22 at 2:32 pm to MSTiger33
They don’t pay 85k per year so quit lying
Posted on 8/6/22 at 2:36 pm to High C
EBR has about 220 teacher vacancies. Half the students where I teach will not have a math teacher for the forseeable future. The plan is to have a sub babysit those classes while the available teachers provide instruction through Google Meet.
The problem is very simple: pay. If you don't pay what the market commands, you are going to have labor shortages. Instead of increasing pay, states are lowering standards. Louisiana will no longer require the Praxis I for students to enter a teacher education program. The Praxis I is easier than the ACT. The head of the college of ed at Southern was gushing about all of the new candidates her college will have because they can take students with just a 19 ACT score. These are the people that will be teaching your kids because the states won't pay teachers what they are worth.
The problem is very simple: pay. If you don't pay what the market commands, you are going to have labor shortages. Instead of increasing pay, states are lowering standards. Louisiana will no longer require the Praxis I for students to enter a teacher education program. The Praxis I is easier than the ACT. The head of the college of ed at Southern was gushing about all of the new candidates her college will have because they can take students with just a 19 ACT score. These are the people that will be teaching your kids because the states won't pay teachers what they are worth.
Posted on 8/6/22 at 2:37 pm to High C
Math, English, History - pay them very well. Wrap up by noon. Everything else is an afternoon private activty. D and F students repeat classes after lunch.
Posted on 8/6/22 at 2:37 pm to Locoguan0
Pay is not going to lure more teachers into EBR
Posted on 8/6/22 at 2:38 pm to mauser
I'm looking for a private tutor
Posted on 8/6/22 at 2:38 pm to 18handicap
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Athletic Directors are telling me they can't find them and either will have to just get someone on the staff who has never coached softball or their school may not play this year.
I've had a couple inquire if I want to come out of retirement again and coach and I've said no so far.
Yep, finding coaches has become more difficult than finding teachers. Different districts pay coaches in different ways. Speaking for my district, though, who wants to get paid ~7% of their yearly salary to coach and spend almost as much time doing that as you do your teaching job? With the shortage of teachers, it’s become really easy for new teachers to tell administrators no when they try to tie coaching to their hire.
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