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Australian students shun education degrees as fears grow over ‘unprecedented’ teacher shortage (www.theguardian.com)
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I don't blame them but fuck this is scary.

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[–] Salvo@aussie.zone 5 points 1 year ago

We are already seeing the result of this. This is the result of this.

I don’t want to disrespect teachers, but the really skilful teachers, with innate people-management skills ended up in the private sector, in high paying people-management roles.

This resulted in only the truly passionate teachers staying on the industry. These passionate teachers were easy pray for manipulative, trouble-making students, which forced more and more teachers out of the industry.

This has been a negative-feedback loop over the last 40 years. The only way to resolve the this is to (strategically) pump money into pulling people out of the private sector and back into teaching.

I am sure that there are thousands of people in middle management roles who would love to take on a teaching (or educational management) role with KPIs based on benefit to society, rather than benefit to the pay packet of the next manager up the org chart, as long as they had a decent wage.