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This Gas Shortage is Bad but Wait Until the Teacher Shortage this Fall
School districts will be scrambling to hire — and it will be the students’ education that suffers in the end
When school districts are scrambling to hire teachers this fall and not finding anyone they will be forced to hire long term subs to fill in positions. This will ultimately hurt the education of the students. Can we blame the teachers for not wanting to come back? They have been told so many different stories and narratives over the past 8 months their heads are spinning. From virtual-teaching to hybrid-teaching to in-person teaching to some other form of teaching their districts make up on the fly. Teachers are tired, underpaid, and under appreciated. We can’t blame them for wanting to move on.
Personally, I asked 75 teachers if they were considering leaving for a different career and over 50% said yes. I know this is a small sample size but similar results are coming up with national polls as well.
