For 2000-01 the number is over 10,000. By 2005 Georgia will need 13,500 new teachers, and by the 2009-10 school year the demand will grow to an estimated 18,500 new employees. In 1999 Georgia graduated approximately 5000 education graduates of which only 60 percent entered the classroom. Noble adds that at the same time record numbers are retiring, and only four of ten teacher preparation graduates are still teaching after five years. It is here.
Bandages are available.
We can hire retired teachers back without penalty to their retirement. We can lower standards for certification. We can hope for enough missionaries to fill the gaps. Or we can do the things needed to make teaching an attractive profession to enter and to stay. Respect has many components to it.