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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This is already known but education is a bad one. Not even incorporating the pay and work conditions, the need for a degree in education to be a teacher is declining. A teaching license is not required in most charters and many school districts with mass shortages are contracting with companies to bring teachers from overseas or they have low cost programs for career switchers or those without education related degrees. A Special or Elementary Education degree will have them boxed in, and from experience it is quite difficult to get another job if they don’t like it.[/quote]

I have a different take on this. Working conditions seem to be the bigger issue than pay, so I anticipate conditions will improve over the next few years as districts start to tackle the teacher shortage.

Regarding teachers from overseas: most won’t stay because of American students’ behaviors. (I’ve worked with many.) This isn’t a permanent solution.

As for career changers, I’m all for those programs. I did one myself. Unfortunately, they also don’t have a high retention rate because these programs can’t adequately prepare you for your first year. I’m the only one remaining from my cohort.

So I anticipate the opposite. A degree in education right now is 100% a guaranteed job, and you can have your pick of schools. [/quote]

As a career changer in this field, I disagree with you.

Working conditions keep getting worse and worse and the pay isn't keeping up with inflation. People want all sorts of services for their kids but no one is willing to pay extra in taxes to fund the services, so the budget balances itself on the back of teachers.

Even if the teachers from overseas don't stay, there is an endless supply of desperate people from other countries who are willing to deal with the misery for a short stint because they have families to support back home or are walled in by the debt they incurred to come here. They can easily be replaced. Our district proudly announced this year that they are hiring from this source.

Fertility rates are going down so enrollment is going to hold steady at best, and if deportations start it's going to go down quite  a bit.

As the proportion of seniors increases in the population, they will divert resources towards them (because they have lots of time on their hands to worry about politics and they vote) and away from kids (who can't vote).[/quote]

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