TERRE HAUTE, Ind. (AP) — A survey of Indiana school superintendents has found that many districts are experiencing a teacher shortage this fall.
The Tribune Star reports that it was the third year Terry McDaniel, an Indiana State University professor in the department of educational leadership, conducted the survey.
Of the 141 district superintendents who responded, 94 percent said they had a teacher shortage. Almost 70 percent reported having a shortage in special education teachers while 57 percent reported having shortages in science and math.
Previous surveys found 92 percent of districts had shortages in 2016, and 95 percent in 2015.
McDaniel says many teachers are leaving the profession and few people are entering it.
The survey found 23 percent of districts rely on full-time substitute teachers to deal with the shortages.
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Who in their right mind would want to go into teaching with the environment that has been created in our schools by our elected idiots? No one with any sense that’s for sure. Teachers are not allowed to have a private life. Teachers have zero power over the “bad students”. Teachers can not discipline students. If teachers assign homework they are seen as not doing their job. Teachers need to learn to speak Spanish to teach their students English. Teachers are held accountable for students that don’t pass ISTEP’s even though it is the first year they have had these students in their classes. Teachers are now required to be parents to the students. Teachers have to deal with a very corrupt union. The pay is not worth all of this. I have known degreed teachers that have left teaching to work in an office with less requirements and better pay. Let see…Teaching or anything else? Anything else wins!
Well said! You covered all the reasons teachers pack it up taking even pushing coffee for Starbucks over cajoling today’s “everybody has a disorder” society’s child to learn!
I weep for today’s youth for they know not the ill done to them nor the stunted future that awaits!