American media: The shortage of American teachers has reached the level of crisis

On April 11, a public school in New York, USA. Picture source Visual China

Comprehensive compilation Yuan Ye

Due to the lack of faculty employees, in some rural school districts in Texas, the new semester will only take 4 days a week; Florida allows the veteran station without teaching background to "top posts"; Arizona allows college students to give lectures.

"The shortage of teachers in the United States has reached the level of crisis." The Washington Post reported that schools across the United States racked their brains and tried to avoid singing the "empty city plan" at the beginning of the school.

"I have never seen such a bad situation." Dan Domenak, executive director of the American School Supervision Association, said when talking about the shortage of teachers.

It is difficult to determine how many teachers in the United States lack. The Washington Post states that no national database can accurately answer this question. People only know that almost all states lack teachers, and there are few hundred teachers' gaps, as many as thousands of.

According to the Education Association of Nevada, as of early August, there were about 3,000 teachers' position vacancies in 17 school districts in the state. In Illinois, 88%of school districts have the problem of teacher shortages. Teachers' positions are either empty or "unqualified people" temporarily fill in. In Houston, the largest 5 school districts reported that there are still 200 to 1,000 teaching positions.

Why is the person in the school so short? Experts point out that this is the result of the common role of various factors, including the fatigue and low wages caused by the epidemic, and the "cultural war" that is continuously upgraded -educators complain that politicians and parents lack respect for them. Many Regional regulations and legislation make them cicadas.

"The consequences of the political situation in the United States and the consequences of the new crown pneumonia have caused this shortage." Randy Wimbleten, chairman of the American Teacher Federation, told the Washington Post, "This is caused by human factors."

There are many rights to solve the shortage of shortages, from increasing the wages of teachers to relaxation of the qualification requirements for substitutes, and the scale of the class. However, the Chairman of the Nevada Education Association Doun Echevari pointed out that these methods can not cure the standards, which may damage the quality of teaching and weaken the students' learning ability.

The school doctor and health service providers "united us" in the state's director of the state Denka Mills told the US Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) that the decline in education quality is a worse for the United States. The long -lasting online classes have a serious impact on the academic and mental health of American students, especially primary and secondary school students, and they have not recovered from it.

"We know that during the epidemic, the academic performance of students at all ages has fallen sharply." Mills said, "Now I am worried that we may face a more serious decline."

What can the school do about this?

In the Clark County School District, Nevada, which has 320,000 students, the vacancy of teachers' positions is as high as 1,300. The school district made every effort to increase the starting salary of the teacher by 7,000 US dollars, and provided the new teachers who came from outside provided a $ 4,000 "settlement fee". The person in charge of the school district Sus Jara told ABC that the local area also plans to issue a "retention bonus" to the teachers who have left the departure, up to $ 5,000.

Even if various measures are taken, at the beginning of the new semester on August 8th, only 92%of teachers in the school district are still on their jobs. "The human resources team worked every night, and I stayed insomnia, but I was too late to fill in the gap." Jara lamented. They had to regulate administrative staff to fill in teaching posts and concentrate their children in multiple classes to the auditorium or gymnasium.

"I think they have tried their best. This is a mess." Jeff Horne, executive director of the Clark County School Executive Association, told ABC.

In fact, almost the whole United States is a mess. Governor of Arizona Governor Douge Dulsi signed a state law in July allowing college students to engage in teaching. Starting from July 1, similar laws take effect in Florida, allowing veterans who have served at least 4 years to teach in primary and secondary schools. Veterans do not have to have a bachelor's degree, but at least 60 universities must be obtained, and the average performance point is not less than 2.5.

The Chairman of the Florida Education Association Andrew Sipa told the US "Miami Pioneer" that the state's situation is severe and lacks at least 8,000 teachers this year, which is much higher than last year (lack of 5,000). Spa acknowledged that letting the veterans on the veterans on the podium was not a "real solution." "You are a good soldier don't mean that you will be a good teacher," he said.

In the Tunsen School of Arizona, due to the lack of teachers in various subjects, the local school director and the head of the education department considers some students to go home online again. According to the US "Penton Pentian" report, the school district may hire a mathematical teacher to teach online from a Chicago education company.

The education departments of the two school districts in Dezhou have decided that only 4 days of lessons per week in the new semester. According to the US "Texas Tribunile", these two school districts are located in rural areas and it is difficult to retain teachers.

Filfax County is the largest school district in Virginia. Local supervisors Michelle Reed told the Washington Post that 97%of teachers' positions were filled in before 3 weeks before school. vacancy. The local area also formulated a spare plan for administrators holding teaching licenses to prepare to teach. "I hope we don't have to use this method," Ride said.

In the career of the Felfax Education Association, the chairman of the Ferfax Education Association, she has never seen so many teachers resigning because of "feeling un respects".Such disrespect comes mainly from politicians and some parents."When people do nothing for teachers and accuse our jobs, I think they have not really thought about a question:‘ Who will teach my children? ’” Houston said.

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