Hmmm....a teacher shortage crisis

I wonder how many teachers have been maimed by the shots?

I wonder if mandatory shots work to discourage people from entering the teaching profession?

 

We may need to make schools for republicans and schools for everyone else.

Republicans should just home school and leave the real educators to do their jobs.

Remember, this goes back to evolution and science in general, esp climate science, their attempts to force public schools to teach their religious crap.... Jesus walked with dinosaurs and the whole gambit of nonsense from the right wing.

 

You think this is funny? I was involved in trying to recruit STEM teachers (I taught computer science).

Irrelevant.

 

Yes it’s funny that a monopolized industry 90% unionized and drawing funding from public coffers can’t negotiate a “living wage” for the tip of the speer.

It’s even funnier that the more we spend, the more ignorant graduates get.

GMO lies are just as relevant to ag labor shortages as CRT is to teacher shortages. In other words, both GMO and CRT are completely irrelevant to labor shortages in either sector.

 

Far fewer than were protected from catching covid before Omicron, and against severe disease if contracting covid.

It no doubt keeps some away, but not many.

 

Well YOU oughta know LM. If anybody on this planet would know, it would be you.

 

That wasn't hard to see coming.

And it's not just teachers. This will hit the barbarians harder, since so many of those places have been downright nasty to healthcare workers on top of the difficulties they faced during the height of the pandemic.

However, this will sort itself out.

The miserable places will become even more miserable, and the rest of us will adapt.

 

Your article is behind a paywall.

NVM. I got around it.

 

Public K-12 education is not "90% unionized." The pay is lower in nonunion states/districts, so unions aren't the problem, funding is.

Also untrue.

Am I defending government-run public schools? No, absolutely not. I support school vouchers.

Wrong. Public attacks on teachers hurt recruiting.

 

Look at programs like International Baccalaureate program and Advanced Placement.

 

So you just proved by your own words that you did not read the link. Figures.

 

I jumped through all the hoops, got another degree in English Ed. and was a teacher for a brief period of time.
I had previously been employed as a Psychiatric Case Worker in the Juvenile Justice system so I had little trouble dealing with with the students.

Briefly put, the main reason I quit teaching was that I was not allowed to teach the students to think for themselves.
It seemed that it was more important for the administration to turn inquisitive young minds into obedient and unthinking parrots than help train them to think for themselves.
Critical Literacy, for example, was anathema as was getting students to question what "everyone knows".

So, I gladly traded in my briefcase for a hammer and anvil, taught myself how to blacksmith and eventually began to design and make wrought iron gates, furniture, functional sculpture, grape vine wine racks, unusual door knockers, a wrought iron jazz band, African animals, a cannon and countless other original and antique wrought iron artifacts.

The closest I came to teaching after that was giving blacksmithing demonstrations to groups of history students who seemed to be fascinated to see 1/2" steel bar turned into steel leaves and each of them went home with a handmade nail just like one made 400 years ago.

 

The loonies come out everywhere. (There are loonies on the left, too.)

They're not "abused." They just quit or never get involved in the first place.

Unions do protect teachers from unfair treatment.

The same reason my school principal niece moved from Milpitas, CA to Oregon—the high cost of living.

 

Too bad you gave up. The trick in most cases is to ignore the Admin. When the Admin is aggressive snd negative, then the key is putting them on the spot for problems in the school.

Good Admin don't hassle teachers for educating students. Bad Admin are typically dull themselves and quite easy to box in.

The key is to require them to evidence thinking to get a passing grade. They knew they would have to THINK if they wanted to pass my history and economics courses.

 

Must be the town you taught in because all the teachers I know have no issues with teaching the kids to think for themselves.

 

Perhaps the teachers are quitting because they are forced to teach CRT.

An English teacher has resigned from a top New Jersey prep school that is using critical race theory to create a “hostile culture of conformity and fear” — causing white and male students to believe they are “oppressors,” she said.

https://nypost.com/2021/06/08/teacher-at-nj-prep-school-quits-over-divisive-ideology/

Jennifer Tafuto, a Manchester Public School teacher for six years, resigned over the district's critical race theory curriculum.

Tafuto said the curriculum pinned students against one another while the Connecticut school district said they want students to feel affirmed and thrive in a diverse society.

"I decided to resign from what I thought was my forever career because I felt more like a political activist than a teacher in my own classroom," Tafuto said in a Twitter video posted by 1776Action on Wednesday.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news...r-quits-over-critical-race-theory/5693550001/

 

As someone who is married to a retired special needs teacher, and knows a lot of teachers both retired and still working, I can say the problems with attracting people to the profession, and keeping them, predate CRT.
The educational system has become a convenient whipping boy for many problems that exist. Unfairly and too broadly IMO. Which is not to say improvements don't need to be made. The tremendous challenge being the wide range of ethnic, racial, religious, linguistic, and cultural backgrounds of the student body.

 

To paraphrase what Olympia Dukakis said to Danny Aiello in "Moonstruck," "what you don't know about teaching is a lot."

 

Oh, I don't deny this has been years, if not decades in the making. After all, how is it we can have so many adults who can't distinguish the difference between an opinion article and an actual news item? Or even question the biased undertones of many so-called news sites? Critical thinking is in serious decline in this country, and culture war issues are dragging everyone down.

 

Here's a blogger who thinks White teachers who don't want to teach CRT should quit:

My inclination is to believe that the lack of outcry is over-shadowed by the even bigger and collective exhale of teachers—White teachers—who are relieved by the denouncement of culturally relevant, responsive, and sustainable curriculum. These are teachers who have never had a desire to and who never will teach about anything not based in white privilege.

https://citizen.education/2021/06/0...use-to-teach-crt-should-leave-the-profession/

An elementary school teacher from Kansas was fined a thousand dollars for quitting his job. The reason behind his quitting was mask mandates and critical race theory (CRT) being part of the school curriculum. Identified as Josiah Enyart, the teacher resigned after the Shawnee Mission School District sent an email renewing their mask mandate and CRT training on July 25.


https://meaww.com/josiah-enyart-kan...dollars-quit-mask-crt-good-riddance-reactions

“My name is Laura Morris. I have been a teacher in Loudoun County Public Schools for five years, and a teacher for 10. In that time, I have learned so much being on the cutting edge of educational technology and working with a diverse population of students that I have loved. This year, I have the privilege to follow my amazing fourth graders up to fifth and I have been excited about this all summer. On the other hand, this summer, I have struggled with the idea of returning to school, knowing that I’ll be working yet again with a school division that despite its shiny tech and flashy salary, promotes political ideologies that do not square with who I am as a believer in Christ. After reading about your lack of consideration for the growing population of concerned citizens in this division, clearly evidenced by this empty room tonight where you shut the doors to the public, as well as the emails sent by the superintendent last year, reminding me that a dissenting opinion is not allowed even to be spoken in my personal life, going so far as to send a form to my colleagues and I encouraging us to fill it out if we hear one another speaking against the controversial policies being promoted by this school board and adopted in this county.


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Not only that, but within the last year, I was told in one of my so called equity trainings that white Christian, able bodied females currently have the power in our schools, and that quote, this has to change. Clearly, you’ve made your point. You no longer value me or many other teachers you’ve employed in this county. So since my contract outlines the power that you have, over my employment in Loudoun County Public Schools, I thought it necessary to resign in front of you, school board, I quit. I quit your policies, I quit your trainings, and I quit being a cog in a machine that tells me to push highly politicized agendas on our most vulnerable constituents, the children, I will find employment elsewhere. I encourage all parents and staff in this county to flood the private schools.” – Laura Morris

https://www.redvoicemedia.com/2021/...-gender-dysphoria-hidden-from-parents-videos/

 

But I do know how to find examples of teachers quitting because of woke policies.

 

So surrender and let us return to the status quo ante.

 

It’s 70% nationally. The states I’m referring to like CA and Illinois it’s well over 90%.

https://nces.ed.gov/surveys/sass/tables/sass0708_043_t1s.asp

Why can’t CA pay teachers? They supposedly have a world class economy and almost full unionization of teachers. Why aren’t teachers from TX flocking to CA?

https://nces.ed.gov/fastFacts/display.asp?id=38

Also from NCES.

Vouchers are a good solution. Monopolies are not good for consumers. Especially government supported monopolies.

LOL. Poor teachers. Imagine if I refused to work because my profession was criticized. Then teachers would be hungry as well as “attacked”

 

Good riddance.

A Kansas elementary school teacher resigned from his job following a mask requirement for unvaccinated teachers,
https://www.starspost.com/kansas-ma...raining-and-renewed-mask-mandates-gets-fined/

 

Instituting a mask mandate for teachers willing to put student's health at risk by not getting vaccinated isn't woke. It's common sense public health policy. Got anything else?