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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’m even more nervous than a few weeks ago. There are so many key positions needed at many schools. Who is going to come take these jobs??? Teachers go back in 3 weeks![/quote]

There are no reinforcements coming.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/27/us/covid-school-teac[i]hing.html
A survey by the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education found that 19 percent of undergraduate-level and 11 percent of graduate-level teaching programs saw a significant drop in enrollment this year[/i].

https://www.edweek.org/teaching-learning/fewer-people-are-getting-teacher-degrees-prep-programs-sound-the-alarm/2022/03
[i]Between the 2008-09 and the 2018-19 academic years, the number of people completing a teacher-education program declined by almost a third. Traditional teacher-preparation programs saw the largest decline—35 percent[/i]

Concern is not new. Here is a 2019 article that mentions dropping enrollment in teacher prep programs back in 2010.
https://www.usnews.com/news/education-news/articles/2019-12-03/sharp-nationwide-enrollment-drop-in-teacher-prep-programs-cause-for-alarm

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