- For the upcoming school year, Maine is having a terrible time hiring enough teachers.
- 80 % of the new teachers at his school lacked the proper teaching credentials.
- Schools can take further steps to address the problem and keep it from reaching critical mass.
For the upcoming school year, Maine is having a terrible time hiring enough teachers, with many districts reporting having dozens of openings. Jackson Green, the director of the Charles M. Sumner Learning Campus in Sullivan, Maine, wrote a letter to the two senators of the state to inform them of the dire situation.
Green claimed that 80 percent of the new teachers at his school lacked the proper teaching credentials, and he wants all of them to be qualified to teach his kids.
Trouble in finding teachers
Green thinks that one issue is the low pay for teachers, but he also thinks that the expectations and duties placed on educators today are having an impact on the number of talented people who choose to enter the field.
He contends that a paucity of excellent teachers has resulted from the state of the educational system and that when this happens, administrators must choose between firing the offending teacher and hiring a replacement.
Green gives residents’ and parents’ concerns about the situation some comfort by saying that they are collaborating with instructors to offer mentors, assistance, college programs, and certification.
The worsening of student misconduct, which is challenging to deal with in rural America, is to blame for the current state of affairs. There is no other option for placing pupils with disabilities, therefore the public school system frequently ends up serving as a catch-all for this type of behavior.
Green thinks that schools can take further steps to address the problem and keep it from reaching critical mass. He thinks that they have passed the breaking point and that more people must speak out about the problems at hand to make the general public aware of the critical circumstances in Maine.
