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Monday, August 22nd, 2022

‘Five-Alarm Crisis’: US Has Shortage of 300K Teachers, School Staff

Author:     JULIA CONLEY
Source:     Common Dreams
Publication Date:     August 12, 2022
 Link: ‘Five-Alarm Crisis’: US Has Shortage of 300K Teachers, School Staff
Stephan:   The teacher shortage in the United States is, as this article describes, becoming a very serious crisis. And I thihk it has long term consequences. When you consider this trend, and you add the growing attempt by the MAGAts to pull books from school libraries, and censor what can be taught in history and civics classes, and you add in the systemic misinformation campaigns engineered by MAGAt world what you are seeing is a generation of children growing up poorly educated, and indoctrinated into all kinds of nonsense. The effect will be to further weaken our democracy if it even survives until these children grow up.
Veronica Roman, a long-term substitute teacher, works with fifth grade students on language arts at Hunt Elementary in San Bernardino, California on September 22, 2021. Credit: Watchara Phomicinda/MediaNews Group / The Press-Enterprise / Getty

National Education Association president Becky Pringle on Thursday warned that the U.S. teacher shortage has spiraled into a “five-alarm crisis,” with nearly 300,000 teaching and support positions left unfilled and policymakers taking desperate—and in some cases, questionable—measures to staff classrooms.

Pringle told ABC News that teachers unions have been warning for years that chronic disinvestment in schools has placed untenable pressure on educators as they face low pay and overcrowded classrooms.

“The political situation in the United States, combined with legitimate aftereffects of Covid, has created this shortage.”

“We have a crisis in the number of students who are going into the teaching profession and the number of teachers who are leaving it,” Pringle told the outlet. “But, of course, as with everything else, the pandemic just made it worse.”

As a survey taken by the NEA earlier this year showed, 91% of educators said pandemic-related stress and burnout is […]

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1 Comment

  1. Albus Eddie on Tuesday, August 23, 2022 at 8:51 am

    We live in a capitalist society. When I am told “We don’t have enough staff” what I hear is “My organization doesn’t pay enough to hire people”. Once we learn to hear in this way we will understand the nature of the crisis. The system has failed.