TEACHERS WALK OUT

[HairOfTheDog]

There are far too many teachers in the system that show up to babysit.

That may be true.

The percentage of college students seeking education majors and teaching credentials is half of what it was in the 70s, down to only 4.6%.

Meanwhile, the demand for teachers has increased as have class sizes. There's an especially severe shortage of teachers for math, science, and special education.

So, many states lowered the qualifications for teachers several years back.

In most states, teachers make very little in salary. If they have a pension and that gets slashed for new teachers, it makes it even more difficult to attract new people to the profession -- which is even more concerning coupled with the fact that 8% of U.S. teachers have left the field over the last decade. That's massive.

Fewer and fewer young adults with a passion for education are willing or able to rack up thousands of dollars in student loans to pursue teaching degrees/credentials......and then make very little in salary, take second and third jobs, and work more classroom hours + teach larger classes to compensate for the teacher shortage.

Ref:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post...607a494bff
https://nypost.com/2018/02/14/why-americ...get-worse/