“I hate that administrators won’t get rid of a bad teacher (provided they don’t break laws or mistreat students) because there are no other teachers lining up to teach,” Akins said to TheDCNF. “
Horse$hit! I’d bet every new teacher job opening would have 100 qualified applications instantly.
Public school teachers are a dime a dozen because ED is by far the easiest major based on the SAT scores.
There are some very good public school teachers, but on average they are the bottom of the barrel.
You don’t major in Ed anymore if you want to teach above 5th grade. You major in a subject and get a Masters in Ed. Something to do with accreditation.
I'm not sure where you're getting your preconceived notion from, but open teaching positions are not met with floods of qualified resumes. Most districts are lucky to get 5-10 resumes total for a new opening these days... and since most position-seeking teachers are sending out 10-20 resumes, the school has to make the hire fast, before those 5-10 teachers are no longer available.
Nobody wants to go to the urban nightmare schools, few want to deal with the entitlement mentality of most kids 8th grade and up, and few want to trade "summers off!!!" for being disrespected by parents, students, AND administrators for the other 9 months, and facing an ever-increasing demand for more and more extra daily paperwork (IEPs) and compliance with every new state and federal scheme, all while making a tepid salary for first-year hires ($750/wk before taxes and classroom supplies and union dues), ... making less than the janitors and cafeteria ladies. Anyone with skills will seek other opportunities.
The majority of those going into education today are the "mommies" who simply cannot have enough K-4th graders around, and basically play together and do easy yet productive things for 8 hours each day. THOSE are not in short supply. They're great people, and do good work... but everything after 5th grade is a train wreck.
NY Post, FEB 14 2018: Why Americas Teacher Shortage Is Going to Get Worse
agree. I studied Education - it was super easy !!!!
Methods of teaching math, methods of teaching social studies, methods of teaching language arts.
the Department of Redundancy Department !
I could have taught K-8 with high school diploma