Time to start funding education options with a pulse — like, say, parents and children themselves.
Have you heard that there’s a “national teacher shortage” in our public schools across the country? Well, apparently it’s a real thing.
We know this because CBS News tells us so:
The Department of Education reports a general shortage of teachers in parts of Colorado. Nationwide, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reports 5.4% of educational services jobs were open in December 2021 — more than double the rate (2.6%) from a year prior.
Teacher shortages may remain a challenge for years as fewer students pursue the profession. In 2018, only 4.3% of college freshmen intended to major in education, compared to 11% in 2000, according to UCLA’s Cooperative Institutional Research Program….
Similarly, more than half of teachers (55%) surveyed last month by the National Education Association say they will leave education earlier than they had planned. Like Hirsch, three-fourths of those surveyed said they’ve had to fill in for colleagues or take on extra duties due to staff shortages, and 90% said feeling burned out is a serious problem.
You can almost smell what this piece is prepping the battlefield for. After all, this was Joe Biden last July:
Speaking to the nation’s largest teachers union, President Joe Biden said Friday that the pandemic has given America’s parents the “ultimate education” on the challenges of the teaching profession. But even more, he said, the last year has proved that teachers across the U.S. deserve higher pay.
“You deserve a raise, not just praise,” Biden said in remarks at the National Education Association’s annual meeting in Washington. “Every parent in this country who spent the last year educating their children at home understands that you deserve a raise.”
Biden made the case while selling his proposed legislative priorities and budget for next year, which includes $20 billion in new funding that aims to spur states to increase teacher pay. A close ally of teachers unions, the president went on to describe educators as “the single most important component of America’s future.”
And all around the country those pay raises are kicking in as states are giving teachers bumps of 4 percent, 5 percent, and even 10 percent. Of course, with inflation at 7.5 percent, a 5 percent pay raise still means you’re losing — so how much good is all that federal swag, anyway?
It’s a sign of certain pockets o the public disrespect and ungratefulness towards teachers. Why would anyone in the world want to be a teacher these days? You spend all the money for an education and even higher education only for some uneducated, foul mouthed absentee parent to think they have the right to micromanage the job you do. No thank you.
maybe that is because of the shit some teachers want to jam down the kids throat instead of teaching them
Exhibit A (4:56)
The teachers unions have destroyed the Educational system not the parents.
Starting salary around the shore is about $60,000 . However, until administrators and parents start backing up their teachers there will be a shortage.
Step 1 salaries (year 1 of teaching with Bachelor’s degree) – figures represent days contracted to work (usually between 188 -191 days).
Wicomico – $48,238 (-$11,762 FY 21-22)
Worcester – $46,917 (-$13,083 FY 21-22
Somerset -$43,407 (-$16,593 FY 21-22
Dorchester – $43,938 (FY 2020) (-$16,593)
Talbot -$48,352.74- (-$11,647.26 FY 21-22)
Salaries do not reflect fiscal cost of benefits, which would indeed put the total combined package at/near $60,000.
While you are correct that the support of both administrators and parents is important, the administrators will only back a teacher but so far, and are held accountable by their superiors. Parents are not held accountable at all.
Until society really values teachers, there will always be a shortage.
Not all parents are foul-mouthed and absentee. WE take pride in our kids (and grandkids) and don’t appreciate some liberal left wing puppet telling our children how and what they have to believe. I had kids in the school system 20 years ago and believe me – I WAS THERE then and will continue to be there now for my grandchildren. Do not think for one minute we (I) will let you decide everything. Teachers beware – stand up for what is right not just because you are getting a pay check to be a puppet but because it is the right thing to do. If you want to be a communist, critical race theorist, woke follower MOVE !
Spoken like a true activist snowflake. Get over yourself. If you want little Johnny and little Suzi to be educated and live life in your make believe bubble, keep them at home and educate them yourself.
Who in the world would put their children in the public school system???🤔