How can the US not have teachers?
Because indentured H-1B imports took their jobs?
When I was in college in the seventies, suddenly the American professors quit school and went into industry. Especially government related jobs that required citizenship. One told me the pay was several times his university salary. (We were working together at Honeywell, and he’d been one of my teachers in college just a year before.) The foreign teachers were hired because they were available at a fraction of the pay. They sucked because the culture is so different. The idea of an Indian or Pakistani is they don’t want you to know what they know as that knowledge is their status.
I don’t understand how any teacher could stomach the current crop of kids with their attitudes.
Twenty to thirty years of not teaching kids to read, write, and do arithmetic and there simply aren’t that many educated people around.