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Old 07-19-2023, 07:43 AM
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Default Teacher Shortage

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Originally Posted by Rainger99 View Post
It appears that the USA is facing a teacher shortage in the near future.

I was not a teacher but for my classmates that went into teaching, it always seemed like a nice career. You weren’t going to get rich teaching but very few of us got rich - most of us ended up middle class.

Work hard the first few years to get the lectures down and then you have to just update them. Most of them enjoyed life - not a lot of pressure and summers off. They seemed happy and they felt like they were making the world better.

Education was once the No. 1 major for college students. Now it's an afterthought. - CBS News
This is not surprising with the lack of paying teachers a decent salary, especially in Southern States, lack of gun laws, and now banning of books and how and what to teach. Who in their right mind would want to be a teacher? I am a retired teacher - 34 years!