Things That We Should Know About the Teacher Shortage in America

Economic cycles do not come with time but with circumstances. The clamor around the shortage of teachers is a piece of unpleasant news, baffling the district superintendents, the researchers, the schools, and now everyone. It has become a frequent media highlight.

The concern is less about how this teacher shortage will be met and how we want to deal with it and more about- does it even exist, or is it an inflated matter?

There are two stories. On the one hand, teacher shortage is seeing soaring attention; on the other hand, there are talks about throwing off these claims. Whom do we believe? The data or the teachers?

Long story short, the teachers feel dejected, drained, and disrespected.

Data tells that pandemic has given them a hard time to teachers and they feel burned out. This feeling is exacerbated by lesser salaries. And to top it all, these came with the politicization of the profession. Teachers feel powerless over what and how they can teach. They cannot exercise self-discretion on teaching topics around sex education or SEL .

What is happening?

A survey tells us that the job satisfaction of teachers in 2022 is 16 percentage points less than what it was in 2021. It also speaks about how more than 70 percent of educators are unhappy with their current working conditions.?

Source: 2022, Educator Shortage Research, by Emma White Research for MEA

Many educators are not willing to continue to work in the same job since schools have reopened. The pandemic has given big jolts to many of them, such as having to work harder through online classes, lesser pay, sickness, mental health concerns, and so on.

Governments in different states are taking measures to manage this shortage. For example,

in Florida, the Education Department allowed military veterans and their spouses to teach in schools even if they lack a degree.

The Arizona Government has asked college students to fill in as teachers in schools in response to dealing with teacher shortages in their schools.

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