[Dr. Anthony J. Toole]

More tiresome fearmongering from the liberal media again today. Apparently, there are teacher shortages across almost all of America. Why are America’s schools so short-staffed? Experts point to a confluence of factors.

“I have never seen it this bad” said Dan Domenech, executive director of the School Superintendents Association.

Meanwhile the Illinois Association of Regional School Superintendents found that 88 percent of school districts statewide were having “problems with teacher shortages.

Carlton Jenkins, superintendent of the Madison Metropolitan School District in Wisconsin, said teachers are so scarce.

“The political situation in the United States has created this shortage,” said Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers.

Temporary fixes are likely to harm students by diminishing their ability to learn, predicted Dawn Etcheverry, president of the Nevada State Education Association.

Danika Mills, state director of Unite Us, said this diminishment in the quality of education is coming at the worst possible moment.

"I think they’re doing whatever they can,” said Jeff Horn, executive director of the Clark County Association of School Administrators.

Andrew Spar, president of the Florida Education Association, said the need for teachers in his state is dire.

Amidst the liberal whining, decisive executive leadership action was finally taken by superintendent Carlton Jenkins:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/educa...cher-shortage/

“We’re just going to go after them,” Jenkins said. Initial enticements will include “some immediate supplies. Every teacher likes their calendar, right? So we’re providing calendars, little things for them — and we have some other things planned that I don’t want to reveal, because I don’t want to ruin the surprise.”

How exciting! Does anyone have the inside scoop on what the surprise is? Perhaps a new management layer to protect the integrity of the classroom experience? Or a bold initiative to submit teachers to proprietary performance metrics?

[handmaiden]

If the big bosses are headed to the dollar stores for calendars, they may as well pick up pencils and fun erasers. That's a surefire motivation to take on a teaching career.

[WWJDnow]

Hallelujah! Public schools are hotbeds of liberal indoctrination. The fewer teachers there are, the less children will learn. Nothing breeds young conservatives better than not learning anything.

[MitzaLizalor]

By calling up citizens to serve as teachers, say for three years, similar to being called up for jury service, the shortfall could be met immediately. And there's a real bonus: every citizen has a different speciality so the learner group would get a very broad education in real skills from the real world. No more doctrinaire theories about the proletariat, social anthropology, human geography whatever that is I just saw it on a list somewhere, Manx Gaelic history

Maria Montessori's sensorial philosophy, Elvish studies and/or the sociology of fame – these last two might be the same thing though. Such topics do not exist in the real world and by calling up people for a compulsory three year stint as teachers only useful subjects would be taught.

https://www.bbc.com/news/education-11672679

[Dr. Anthony J. Toole]

I've not been able to sleep wondering what Carlton Jenkins' surprise for teachers might be to go with their new calendar. I think I've guessed it: a tweet of himself on what looks like the North Korean news to advocate for teachers. Congratulations *slow clap*

[Johny Joe Hold]

Every year there are a few thousand inmates released from jails and prisons. They are unemployed. Give them each a quick review of the material and put them to work as teachers. They cannot be worse than the Satan-loving teachers in our public schools right now.