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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/america-has-a-teacher-shortage-and-a-new-study-says-its-getting-worse/2016/09/14/d5de1cee-79e8-11e6-beac-57a4a412e93a_story.html

Washington Post article claims there's been a dramatic decrease in new teachers entering the profession:

"Enrollment in teacher-preparation programs dropped from 691,000 in 2009 to 451,000 in 2014, a 35 percent decline, according to the study, “A Coming Crisis in Teaching? Teacher Supply, Demand and Shortages in the U.S.”"

It also claims nearly 2/3 of teachers leave before retirement age.

If teaching is supposed to be such a cushy job, "summers off, home by 3", and so [b]well paid with great benefits[/b] ... why aren't people rushing to become teachers?

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In what universe, I wonder? A low supply of teachers means school districts will need to start paying much higher salaries, because they'll be fighting over the dwindling supply of teachers coming out of school. Eventually that will encourage more people to go into teaching and help keep the experienced ones around longer. It's just supply and demand for labor, and the school districts/states need to start acting like any other corporation faced with a smaller pool of people to hire.

As an aside, a lot of teachers don't even take the summers off, they're working second jobs or teaching summer school to make extra money.[/quote]

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