It sounds like there are a great many people who want to teach.
The real headline should be, "Nobody wants to teach in public schools anymore."
And do you blame them? The people (politicians, mostly, in dialogue with union leaders) who make the big decisions about public schools are so many levels removed from the students or the teachers that the best-case scenario for these decisions is to be woefully out of touch.
At this point, it seems like the entire world recognizes the American public school system is messed up beyond repair. So why are we spending so much time, energy, and effort trying to save it instead of trying to reimagine the whole thing?
Who's successfully teaching these days? As in, who are the examples of people who are actually being successful at putting ideas into other people's heads?
If what you want is to teach, learn from them.
(If you have a hundred other goals, like providing childcare and increasing character through athletic competition and whatever else you want to do, those are fine things too, but quit trying to lump it all together and do it at once. Find the people who are succeeding at those goals and learn from them as well.)
There are plenty successful public schools out there, why not find out what is making them work instead of giving into those (GOP mostly) who want only the rich to get an education because they can afford private school?
The real headline should be, "Nobody wants to teach in public schools anymore."
And do you blame them? The people (politicians, mostly, in dialogue with union leaders) who make the big decisions about public schools are so many levels removed from the students or the teachers that the best-case scenario for these decisions is to be woefully out of touch.
At this point, it seems like the entire world recognizes the American public school system is messed up beyond repair. So why are we spending so much time, energy, and effort trying to save it instead of trying to reimagine the whole thing?
Who's successfully teaching these days? As in, who are the examples of people who are actually being successful at putting ideas into other people's heads?
If what you want is to teach, learn from them.
(If you have a hundred other goals, like providing childcare and increasing character through athletic competition and whatever else you want to do, those are fine things too, but quit trying to lump it all together and do it at once. Find the people who are succeeding at those goals and learn from them as well.)