In a statement to Fox News, a spokesperson for the Department of Education said they are, “fully committed to providing the necessary resources to keep schools open for full-time, in-person learning. As we recover from the pandemic, effectively recruiting and retaining critical staff including teachers, paraprofessionals, mental health professionals, substitutes, school bus drivers, and school social workers is essential to supporting student success, engaging parents and families, and growing our economy.”
The department wrote that mitigating strategies include, “include increasing wages, offering hiring bonuses for teachers and support staff, and providing permanent salary increases or premium pay,” adding that the Treasury has issues a resource clarifying that many retirees, or those soon-eligible for retirement are now able to work in classrooms while still receiving their pensions. The statement continued with a pledge to provide assistance to school districts to help them understand how to fully utilize the American Rescue Plan and previous relief funding to “attract staff and stabilize their workforce.”
Is this the same group of people who had to be told to stop posting beach pictures while they were supposed to be too scared to work?
In my opinion teachers are not compensated at a rate that will attract the best of the best and this area is an area where the very best today teaching our children, will pay big dividends tomorrow with educated adults. That’s only half of the equation for our national success though. The other half are the parents and “we” are failing miserably in that area.
My friend was telling me about teachers who filed medical exemptions so that they would not have to go into the school physically but were seen out shopping, dining, etc.
“We had massive teacher and staff shortage prior to (the) pandemic, and while the pandemic may have escalated those numbers, we are seeing what we’ve never seen before,” Spar said.
He said data compiled by the FEA reveals the crippling effect the pandemic has had on school staffing, contributing even more to shortages school districts have faced since 2016.
“We started this school year with just under 5,000 vacancies among our teachers,” Spar continued. “We’re now closing in on about 5,100.”
To compare, the FEA only saw around 1,370 vacancies by the end of the school year in 2016.
He added schools are also having trouble finding substitutes due to the increasing stress and pressure of being a school employee during the pandemic, a job made worse by the politics and division exhibited in school boards across the state.
I wonder what teachers would do if they started importing in teachers from India by the tens of thousands willing to work for $20,000 a year like they do in many of the engineering professions. We might hear about the problem then.
That’s some very small thinking ya got goin on there. Maybe you think along the lines of surviving but my answer was to induce long term thriving for our nation through an excellent education…and that begins with hiring the best teachers.
Another example of a failed state, a so-called “Nation of Laws”. We can see the results of “bail reform” being pushed by the left and executed by their District Attorneys.
What benefit do they gain by leaving criminals on the street while waiting trial - over and over again? How do they profit from the chaos?
