“A lot of people (teachers) are looking for retirement earlier than they thought.” Other difficulties for teachers include contact tracing in the event of a COVID outbreak and testing for COVID. Making matters worse, she said, are students achieving below grade level when teachers are trying to teach them grade-level curriculum after having missed “so much from the last year and a half.” “It’s been really difficult,” added Corey, referring to negative student behaviors that have been exacerbated by lack of socializing and their loss of routines and procedures.
“They had to rethink their priorities and life passions,” she said, adding, however, that some retired teachers also returned to the district. In a brief telephone interview Thursday, she said that she had recently spoken with Sonoma State University officials in Rohnert Park who told her that the school would have 90 teacher graduates this year.Ĭorey, who on Wednesday taught students in an English Leaner Development class at David Weir K-8 Preparatory Academy in Fairfield, also said teachers are leaving classrooms because of the pandemic. “I agree wholeheartedly,” said Kris Corey, superintendent of FSUSD, the county’s largest district with some 22,000 students across 30 campuses.Ĭorey cited statistics that show how few college students, when compared to years past, are enrolling in teacher credentialing programs not just in California but across the nation. And a Vacaville teachers union official said there are “no quick fixes” and it’s only going to get worse. It has also led to a day-to-day scramble to find enough substitute teachers, leading to the unexpected necessity of having school and district administrators fill in, as they do in the Fairfield-Suisun and Vacaville unified districts.
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Public schools, including those in Solano County, for years have sometimes come up short when it comes to having enough teachers to fill all openings, especially in math, science, special education and foreign languages.īut with the fall semester well underway, and with students back into classrooms full time, the challenge to find and hire teachers and substitutes for any subject has become acute, in part because of the lingering pandemic, which has prompted a spike in retirements and resignations.
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