It Will Take More Than $60K Salaries to Solve the Teacher Shortage

Without increasing student to teacher ratios, this problem is effectively unsolvable. It's Baumol's cost disease writ large.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baumol_effect

Just hire local women as teachers and when they don't fill the part train the next generation to do it. The job can not be paid fully in money; the teachers have to love and connect with the students. When the students are misbehaving or the teachers don't have a relationship with the students local culture then you see their concern for performing good deteriorate.

And Yet, at the same time schools are teaching less while screens are raising kids more. I would expect more digital learning in school environments soon and teachers being hired with much more emphasis on behavioral management of the students. Also, this new/different expectation would attract a new crowd of applicants that don't want to "Deal with bratty kids while trying to teach them" and instead they can "Tell the bratty kid to sit and do his work or send him onto his fate".

School is simple and made into a tedious process to pump up what all is happening of worth. My son ought graduate highschool at 16 because that is really the age it teaches to [at end of grade 12].

The elites see a sunk cost for the rabble and still a large labor pool doing a job for below-market-rate. Why change anything?

The key to this is simple: housing values. At least in the 'burbs, education is one of the critical things driving housing value. All you simply have to do is threaten white people's housing values and the money will come POURING in.

Also, a huge problem in America is transfer of money from cities (desperately underfunded school systems in cities, whodathunkit?) to rural areas. How about we change this?

You know what would be a fun exercise? Some city in like Texas gets tired of the state funding shenanigans and decides to form a new state. Like Houston. Perfect example. Remove the funding from the #4 largest city from the state coffers. Burbs don't want to join? Perfect, set up some tolls and rake in the money. Oh, the burbs DO want to join (most likely case)? Sure why not.

It would be interesting because if five cities in the midwest or South got sick of their state politics' shit, all of a sudden there would be ten new senators from urban areas in the senate. Look out, totally new political landscape.

Here in SoCal we are starting to see declining enrollment in K-12 and the University systems.

I was approached by a well-known University. But I declined, even though it would've been good to teach.

> "And, now, teachers face censorship in multiple states for teaching about race, gender, and sexual diversity."

Surely the United States is ahead of Singapore when measured in teachings on sexual diversity.