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A Second Proof


For those of you who have following my blogs, you are already aware that I was against the concept of Zoom schooling from the very beginning. This was because children were at very very low risk from Covid, and in addition, the concept that on-line schooling could come close to in-person schooling in terms of the children learning was … to put it politely … poppycock, nonsense, malarkey, or just plain B.S.! And this lost learning is continuing to take its toll on children across the nation. Nuff said!

However, this Covid school nonsense is taking its toll elsewhere, notably on teachers.

From the Epoch Times:

With the end of the academic year in sight, an overwhelming number of educators are planning to close the book on their teaching careers.

Much of this stems from post-pandemic classroom behavioral challenges with students and ongoing staff shortages that create excessive workloads for teachers.

Many educators who have 25 years or more under their belt are opting to retire, but even less seasoned ones are walking away and choosing different career paths.

A RAND study from January 2021 showed nearly a quarter of those surveyed expressed the desire to quit after just one year of teaching during the pandemic.

Two years of excessive screen time at home and the disengagement of online learning have left students struggling, falling behind, and adrift in a sea of depression. COVID-19 and its subsequent restrictions created a mental health crisis for youth, which is now manifesting as aggressive or excessively troublesome behavior in the classroom.

Yet the struggle to keep existing educators and hire new ones is only half the battle. A new report from the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education indicates that university students pursuing teaching degrees are declining.

In 2019, U.S. colleges awarded fewer than 90,000 undergraduate degrees in education. That’s down from nearly 200,000 a year in the 1970s. Over the past 10 years alone, the number of people completing traditional teacher preparation programs has dropped by 35 percent.

“This is a five-alarm crisis,” said NEA (National Education Association) president Becky Pringle.

If, in fact, the above projections are anywhere close to reality, the future of public education in the U.S. is in jeopardy. In many states what is sure to happen is that parents will become more vociferous as the public schools increasingly cannot adequately educate their children. The logical result will be school choice, which is good for the children and bad for the NEA. Good riddance to bad rubbish.

May those Teacher’s Union bastards rest In peace … not!

5/28/22

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