There was no teacher shortage in the 1990s and it is all due to all of the changes that came with NCLB and only focusing on teaching to a test. In Texas we had everything destroyed before the rest of the country while George W. Bush was governor and we were being used to collect the data that would be touted as the Texas Miracle which later came to be known as the Texas Mirage. Check out my substack:https://teachingassacredwork.substack.com It was all planned to dismantle public schools and go to AI driven on-line privatized schools which is what is now being implemented in Texas. The policymakers are the problem.
Thanks for that perspective, Mary - and sorry you experienced the Bush Texas years. Appreciate you sharing your info! :) And, yes, the policymakers ARE the problem. They’d do well to spend some time in a classroom.
There was no teacher shortage in the 1990s and it is all due to all of the changes that came with NCLB and only focusing on teaching to a test. In Texas we had everything destroyed before the rest of the country while George W. Bush was governor and we were being used to collect the data that would be touted as the Texas Miracle which later came to be known as the Texas Mirage. Check out my substack:https://teachingassacredwork.substack.com It was all planned to dismantle public schools and go to AI driven on-line privatized schools which is what is now being implemented in Texas. The policymakers are the problem.
Thanks for that perspective, Mary - and sorry you experienced the Bush Texas years. Appreciate you sharing your info! :) And, yes, the policymakers ARE the problem. They’d do well to spend some time in a classroom.