After years of vilification and attacks on education, states are now scrambling to find teachers. No way to have seen that coming, right?

Courtesy of the New York Times:

In a stark about-face from just a few years ago, school districts have gone from handing out pink slips to scrambling to hire teachers. 

Across the country, districts are struggling with shortages of teachers, particularly in math, science and special education — a result of the layoffs of the recession years combined with an improving economy in which fewer people are training to be teachers. 

At the same time, a growing number of English-language learners are entering public schools, yet it is increasingly difficult to find bilingual teachers. So schools are looking for applicants everywhere they can — whether out of state or out of country — and wooing candidates earlier and quicker. 

Some are even asking prospective teachers to train on the job, hiring novices still studying for their teaching credentials, with little, if any, classroom experience.

Yeah I think we all saw this coming.

First treat teachers like shit, attach federal funds to test scores and then blame the schools for their "failure to achieve," all while undermining the very idea of public education at every turn, and then wonder why you cannot find qualified educators anymore.

I swear this shit pisses me off like nothing else.

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