Originally Posted by
Mark
Our local school district is desperate for teachers. I had a conversation with an administrator this summer. They have reached the point where they will hire people from other countries & help them pay for their VISA to be here. They are also considering teachers who only have high school diplomas. It's that bad. Good subs are even harder to find these days.
I was emailed twice last school year by our local high school principal asking if I would return to teach science. The 2nd request from them - I would have replaced a guy who was fired for selling pot to kids at school. I declined, but I know the individual who did replaced him. He's ten years older than me, & I was his assistant principal at the same high school during the years of 2002-04. He did the final quarter of last year for them. 30+ years of teaching under his belt, and 9 years of school administration. According to him, things are horrible.