Here’s why teacher shortages could affect low-income students the most | JUST THE FAQS

Teacher shortages are very real in certain school districts in the U.S. Here's why.

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The kids hit hardest when the pandemic closed their schools are also among the most likely to start off the year at districts without enough teachers and other staff.

Many schools have all the teachers they need, data shows, despite a national uproar over a teaching shortage. But data suggests that districts with large numbers of Black, brown or poor students – the students who fell furthest behind in math and reading during remote schooling – could bear the brunt of the teaching vacancies.

Disadvantaged students are the most likely to enter classrooms over the next few weeks with new teachers, substitutes, teachers with the least amount of training, and a shrinking number of the most-experienced teachers, based on a USA TODAY analysis of available data and interviews with experts and teachers.

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  2. I’m confused , Do the teacher not want to teach for low-income (black) students..I hope you parents are paying attention and read between the lines of what they are not really saying.. This is sad af.

    1. It is sad, but as a teacher who works in low income schools, it is not suprising. I explain it this way, if you worked retail and someone came in and directly insulted you or cursed you out every week, they would be told to shop elsewhere and refused service. So why is a teacher expected to just accept that degradation? Children are still human beings, developing as they may be. Teachers are still employees who should expect a non abusive work environment. So when you push people who are highly qualified, but don’t get paid well into the choice of an abusive and non abusive workplace. Which do you think they will choose? Especially as we move to less exclusionary discipline, this problem gets worse because the kids who don’t want an education drag down those who do.

      The only solution I can think of is for the guardians in these communities to get ahold of their children and stop treating education like childcare. Because both teachers and the government have tried to fix this for decades and obviously they cannot fix it, not that they don’t want to, but they are not the ones who have the power to do so.

      It’s sad, heartbreaking really, but it’s the truth.

  3. There’s been a teacher shortage much longer than anyone thinks.
    We know that because the younger you are, the more illiterate you are!

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