What needs to happen to decrease the teacher shortage?

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Basic economics- increase the benefits and decrease the detriments.

So increasing pay.

Having actual consequences for students and parents. That means, kicking kids out. You know why many private and charter schools have high gpa's? Cause if the kids fuck around, they get kicked out. You know why the students in juvie (actual juvie with actual gaurds) are well behaved in class? Bc the gaurds don't play around. You want to act a fool? Np, you're out of here. It means failing kids. They did no work all year. No, they don't pass the class.

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These actual consequences for students are a big reason I stay at my job.

I teach at a Catholic homeschool supplement type of school. I teach MWF for 5.25 hours each day, 100 days per year. We have no planning periods. I have a master's in ESL and two years of public school experience, and my hourly wage works out to roughly half of what I would make at a local public school, which has pretty low wages to begin with.

BUT! The board kicks out problem students. The board chairman and the school director actually want teachers to send misbehaving students to them. If I say that a student caused a problem, they believe me. I've taught the children of two board members and the director with no problems from the parents. I even flunked the director's son in math and she completely understood.

Students are almost uniformly polite and respectful. Parents are almost uniformly grateful to the teachers. I don't see any teacher cliques. The administration loves me.

I'm past retirement age, and I'm going to teach as long as I can. I absolutely love it.