No one wants to put up with brats and their parents. Teachers are retiring because administrators do not have their backs.
Lie. There are many people with alternative certifications unions won’t let work in schools.
Will be supplied with interpreters.
They could hire retired people from the private sector, but that would screw up the union dues.
They pulled this same crap in Vegas. I read that there were no US teachers who qualified, even though teachers from all across the country applied. There were no shortage of skills among that group. They flew in 2 planes of teachers from the Phillipenes, who really did not qualify. The result was less education. Then they gave them taxpayer home loans at our expense.
There is a lot of work involved as a teacher. Many many things to manage while you are trying to get some information into the kids’ heads.
The lack of discipline in today’s kids is a game changer.
We need conservative teachers
Bunch of crap! Just another BS piece to keep qualified Americans out of the workforce and find compliant union types.
I hope those teachers speak clear and easy to understand English. Over the years, taking various courses, I have found it very hard, sometimes impossible, to understand what was being said in classroom lectures.
Import illegals to fill the classrooms, and then import teachers who speak their language. That makes sense in a warped way.
I was a college professor for 15 years with an MA and doctoral credits in education, yet I would have to take another two years of rinky dink undergraduate class in order to be certified to teach high school classes. Hardly worth my time.
TEACHER SHORTAGE!!! I wonder why? unruly students are not arrested after assaulting teachers and other students because of the color of their skin, 3 NYC teachers filed a lawsuit on racial discrimination because they are white. We all know a teacher or two or three in our family and friends and they have similar stories to tell, that’s why the shortage
WTF is the USA not hiring AMERICANS? It is epidemic in the tech industry as it is.
a notoriously hard subject to fill with US teachers.
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Why would anyone want to go into a classroom in today’s world. The pay is lousy. The respect for educators is dismal to say the least. And in the touchy feely environment that exists, no one is responsible for their own actions. The teacher is always wrong.
The authority to discipline was removed from the classroom teacher many years ago. Once the state took the position that it is inappropriate for teachers to teach responsibility and morality to students, it wasn’t long before chaos ensued.
Yet there are those teachers who valiantly hold on, keep teaching, and are the real heros, in today’s world.
If you can read this, thank a teacher.
There are a number of solutions to the so-called teacher crisis that will never see the light of day, thanks to the teachers union:
1. Get rid of the teaching credentials crap. Both of our children went to private schools where very few of the teachers were certified to teach in the public schools. Many were retired STEM professionals, who chose teaching as a second career. Some were fresh out of college with a useless masters degree in one of humanities or social sciences, but with a genuine passion for the subject matter that they wanted to share with the next generation. Some of them had taught English or other subjects in foreign countries. Very few of them had an education degree, and yet our kids graduated from high school well-ahead of their public school peers.
2. Beginning in the junior year of high school, teach classes using a lecture center format — as many of the students will experience in a year or two as college freshmen. Instead of three teachers teaching five classes a day with 20 students in each class, use one teacher to teach three classes with 100 students in each class.
3. Use on-line, virtual classrooms to allow one teacher to teach a greater number of students.
4. Turn teaching into a full-time job so that each teacher teaches all but one period a day instead of the current practice of teaching only five of eight periods.
What, no one with a master’s degree wants to work for literal minimum wage??