If teachers are essential for a caring society, what will happen when caring teachers are fleeing the profession in droves?

A caring society is a society that has their professional best educating their children. If professional teachers are essential for a caring society, what will happen when caring teachers are fleeing the profession in droves?

It's going to get a lot worse before it gets better. Here is what I predict (recently retired 25 year teacher):

1. Parents will become alarmed at the amount of violence and bullying at schools - due in part to larger class sizes and less qualified teachers
2. They will also realize that their kids are not progressing in their education. They can't read at grade level and they can't do math
3. They will decide to homeschool - with little idea of what it entails
4. At first, they will rely on the canned homeschool programs, such as K12 to provide instruction
5. Soon they will realize that without direct parental oversight and guidance, their kids can't/won't do their schoolwork during the work day. They'll eventually discover that their kids aren't doing the work
6. Caring parents are going to sacrifice luxuries, and take on homeschooling oversight. One parent will go from fulltime to part time work
7. This will remove more essential workers from an already depleted workforce
8. Some of those parents will realize that the precious time they are sinking into their children's education is wasted unless they impose consequences. This will be a small start to wellness
9. There will also be a large percent of parents who remove their kids from the neighborhood school to homeschool who are unable to follow through
10. Once again, our society will be divided along socioeconomic lines - those who can afford to properly homeschool and those who cannot. This will have long term consequences
11. At some point, the government will have to step up and enforce state education laws
12. At first state education departments will turn to administrators for solutions - and they will get it wrong. Too many administrators are people who found day-to-day instruction distasteful. They are NOT education experts (which is okay as long as they are administrative experts - a different skill set)
13. When those in power include the caring teachers they previously discarded, then we can fix the education conundrum

Submitted March 05, 2023 at 10:00AM by MantaRay2256 https://ift.tt/gPbJ4LN