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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is not a shock to us at all. Uh,
what's being called a catastrophic nationwide teacher shortage and the WAPPO,
which of course looks at the problem wrong because they're
the WAPPO, But the facts remain. We'll get to the
stuff they got wrong in a minute. But they start
with rural districts in Texas switching to four day weeks
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due to a lack of staff. Florida's asking veterans with
no teaching background to eder classrooms, Arizona is allowing college
students to step in and instruct children, and then they
go to a bunch of different places. But the teacher
shortage in America's at crisis levels. In school officials everywhere
are scrambling to ensure that his students return to classrooms.
There's gonna be somebody to educate them. I know two
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people personally that quit their jobs as teachers, and teaching,
as you know, is as much of vocation as a job.
It's something you do because you're kind of compelled to
do it, you plan to do it for a long time.
And both these people quit because not because the money
that's what's always thrown out there made more higher pay
it's always because of the freaking hassle or the current
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rules situation where you can't discipline anybody, that's why people quit. So,
of course the wap Post says the pandemic induced teacher exhaustion,
low pay. That's not new, and some educators sense that
politicians and parents and sometimes their own school board members
have little respect for their profession amid an escalating educational
culture war that has seen many districts and states past
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policies and laws restricting what teachers can say about US history, race, racism,
gender and sexual orientation, as well as lgbt Q issues.
So of course they painted as these reactionary, lunatic parents
trying to restrict what's taught and not as insanity that's
never been in our classes is suddenly being taught. Well,
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it's completely anecdotal, but I don't know any teachers that
are leaving the profession because of that. And even if
you can't talk about racism the way I'd like to,
and even if there are, I gotta believe they are
just as many who would be leaving because they're forced
to teach some of that stuff that they can't stomach.
Combine that with the kids who don't know how to
learn anymore. The fact that, and we've seen this growing
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over the years, the whole How dare you discipline my
little Johnny or give my little Jenny a B? She
worked very hard, you give her an a How to
hell can you teach start