Education / Teaching thread

bonnjer said
https://www.yahoo.com/news/solve-teacher-shortages-schools-turn-090816526.html
I've got mixed feelings on this. It's great they're "making a dent" in the teacher shortage, but I wonder how truly effective / long-lasting these people will be. Yes, they're doubling the pay of these people who were custodians or bus drivers, but they're still not addressing the overall low pay and conditions that are causing the teacher shortage in the first place. The state just keeps allowing these types of alternate certification programs as a way to hold off a growing problem in education without having to actually address the true issues.

I know one really great success story from this kind of program.

Our current assistant superintendent was first a teacher’s assistant for a long time. Got her degree, became a teacher. Got her master’s became an assistant principal. Got her doctorate, became a principal, and then an assistant superintendent. All in the same district. Last year she was the state administrator of the year.

But I would definitely say she’s the exception, not the rule.