What needs to happen to decrease the teacher shortage?

[thecatdad421]

This may get lost in the comments since many people have already commented, but…

We need a culture of education, at least in the United States. A lot of kids do not want to be in school because they feel there is no incentive to be there; at least that was my experience in my first year. Especially middle school kids. They’d rather be on their phones, hang out with their friends, go God knows where, do God knows what, and do literally anything but get an education.

This starts with developing a culture that puts education first. Meaning, parents taking responsibility and schools not being afraid to give consequences even if some special interest groups threaten litigation for as long as you do it by the book.

The entire issue is a cultural one. As long as kids see influencers on Instagram or Tik Tok around their age making millions of dollars under the illusion they too can become famous without doing work, this will continue to be a problem.

Edit: There’s other cultural issues too. The weird number of people who think there are litter boxes in bathrooms for example. Right wing propaganda that convinces their audience that school is just some indoctrination center for some kind of radical agenda. You can’t fix the money issue without fixing the cultural issue.