Public education is definitely facing many struggles in every state, and I have no doubt this trend will continue. The question is, how bad will things get?
Teachers are quitting in droves as a new generation of appallingly behaved students push their patience to the limit.
Born between roughly 2010 and the end of 2024, Generation Alpha will make up the largest cohort of children ever to live on planet earth.
However, the two billion-plus toddlers and pre-teens are already being cited for their illiteracy, unruly behavior and an uncontrollable addiction to screens.
92 percent of leadership at public schools were concerned that students were not meeting academic standards, according to the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES).
NCES reported that 44 percent of all public schools were operating without a full teaching staff.
That year also featured the lowest job satisfaction levels among teachers of all time - only 12 percent - according to 2022 research published by Brown University.
Gina Brillon, 44, a stand up comedian from the South Bronx, is seriously considering homeschooling her four-year-old son to circumvent the broken American school system.
Brillonâs conviction to homeschool grew even stronger after talking to a former New York Board of Education teacher who had chosen to homeschool her own children.
âShe told me her homeschooled kids were further ahead than any of her students,â Brillon said.
the Paterson School District, which is looking to fill 152 full-time teaching positions. The teacher shortage is an issue nationwide and one that Paterson has been working to address for the last two years.
while New Jerseyâs schools usually rank as some of the best in the country, not every school in the Garden State offers children a welcoming, supportive learning environment.
For many youngsters, instead of worrying about passing the next test or doing their homework, going to school is an awful experience.
Public schools will continue to decline, if the growing majority of the people having children in America are single mothers and especially if we continue to flood the schools with millions of the worldâs impoverished children with all the other problems they will bring.