Do you want to be forced to teach students sexual grooming? Want to teach kids that America is a racist nation? Think teaching of math is an ideological effort? Want to promote radicalism, walk outs and unions controlling the classroom? If so, become a California government teacher. Want to lie to parents about their children? The Sacramento Democrats just passed a law telling you that your credentials can be taken if you tell the parents their child has an emotional or mental problem.
Could it be that young people have decided they want honest work, want to teach, not be ideology monitors? Is this why fewer college graduates are willing to give themselves up to radical ideology?
“Although declining student enrollment has eased staffing problems in some districts, many schools still rely on interns and teachers working on emergency-style permits and waivers to staff classrooms because of a lack of fully credentialed teachers.
During the 2022-23 school year there were 4,449 intern credentials and 9,257 emergency-style permits issued in California, according to the “Annual Report Card on California Teacher Preparation Programs for 2022-23. This was a decrease in the number of intern credentials and an increase in emergency-style permits compared to the previous years.
The number of multiple-subject, single-subject and education specialist credentials all declined in 2022-23. That is the second year that multiple-subject credentials, required to teach elementary school, have gone down substantially. The number declined by 15%, or 1,000 credentials, in 2022-23 and by 25% in 2021-22.
Watch as AI takes over more and more of the classroom teaching.
Number of new teaching credentials dips for second year in a row
EdSource, 1/3/25 https://edsource.org/updates/number-of-new-teaching-credentials-dips-for-second-year-in-a-row#:~:text=The%20state%20bestowed%2014%2C636%20new,the%20number%20of%20credentials%20issued
California issued fewer K-12 teaching credentials for a second year in a row and fewer students enrolled in teacher preparation programs during the 2022-23 school year, exacerbating the state’s ongoing teacher shortage.
The state bestowed 14,636 new teaching credentials during the 2022-23 school year, the most recent year data is available, nearly 2,000 fewer credentials than the previous year, according to the California Commission on Teacher Credentialing’s “Teacher Supply Report.” The previous year the number of credentials issued in California dropped by more than 3,000.
In 2022-23 enrollment in the state’s teacher preparation programs dropped to 17,337 – nearly a 12% decline from the year before, according to the report.
The two-year dip in certification follows five years of increases, although the number of credentials never rebounded from the Great Recession that began in 2007.
Although declining student enrollment has eased staffing problems in some districts, many schools still rely on interns and teachers working on emergency-style permits and waivers to staff classrooms because of a lack of fully credentialed teachers.
During the 2022-23 school year there were 4,449 intern credentials and 9,257 emergency-style permits issued in California, according to the “Annual Report Card on California Teacher Preparation Programs for 2022-23. This was a decrease in the number of intern credentials and an increase in emergency-style permits compared to the previous years.
The number of multiple-subject, single-subject and education specialist credentials all declined in 2022-23. That is the second year that multiple-subject credentials, required to teach elementary school, have gone down substantially. The number declined by 15%, or 1,000 credentials, in 2022-23 and by 25% in 2021-22.
Interesting collection of assertions, in this opEd, …
While the allegations of, ‘grooming’ are real (just read any of the more recent iterations of state instructional frameworks), the primary reasons so many folks LEAVE the teaching profession tend to be poor pay (poor relative to the amount of education and post-graduate preparation required to earn a teaching credential). and the amount of physical violence in so many of the nation’s schools. In California, teachers are regularly threatened and victimized with actual violence on at least a weekly basis. This doesn’t include the daily incidences of student-on student violence, having adults coming onto campuses to, ‘settle scores’ with other parents/kids, etc.
Some school districts are paying substitute teachers extra pay to work in their more, ‘challenging’ schools.
I do know people who are leaving for the grooming reason. However, as to pay, teaching is a funny beast. It’s only part of the year with incredible benefits and vacations. It allows incredible work-life balance or if money is a factor, a lot of time for side hustle. Everyone has to figure out their own path but looking at their pay as their total annual income like a 12-month government employee is just the wrong way to do it. (Plus student loans are forgiven if you work five years.)
I don’t know why you added “nation’s” schools, but definitely violence and inability to reprimand and punish students is a huge issue. I think many classify it with grooming (it’s a small group of teachers who like the grooming but think there needs to be more consequences for students).
I keep waiting but shouldn’t there eventually be less need for teachers? The student body has been shrinking for over 10 years now…