BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — Everywhere, it seems, back-to-school has been shadowed by worries of a teacher shortage. The U.S. education secretary has called for investment to keep teachers from quitting.

In Birmingham, the school district is struggling to fill around 50 teaching spots, including 15 in special education, despite $10,000 signing bonuses for special ed teachers. Jenikka Oglesby, a human resources officer for the district, says the problem owes in part to low salaries in the South that don’t always offset a lower cost of living.

Hmm :centrist: socdem idea, maybe just pay the teachers more using the :brrrrrrrrrrrr:

      • ssjmarx [he/him]
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        2 年前

        You would need some kind of collective action. The SPD used to organize schools for uneducated adults and their kids and give an explicitly socialist education, I wonder if you could replicate that model as some kind of "homeschool collective" similar to what some evangelicals do where parents take turns educating all of the kids in the group. With the right org leading it it could very quickly spin up into a whole movement, educating parents in socialist politics and kids in everything better than the public schools manage to do.

        • CTHlurker [he/him]
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          2 年前

          I think the CPC did something similar during the Chinese Civil War, as a way to ensure goodwill among the population they relied so much on.