It was very surprising to me how little interest there was in recruiting me by any of the school districts in the Wilmington area. Perhaps what I'd heard about attracting people with my kind of background into teaching were from other districts and states. Or perhaps the fact that I am not yet a certified teacher presented some administrative problem. I was told that student enrollments are declining because children are being taken out of public schools by parents with the means do so. Perhaps declining enrollment accounts for districts' reluctance to create new teacher slots.
Vacancies have to exist before new teachers are hired.
Still, I remain puzzled. As a parent, I would have been glad if my children had teachers who could bring to the classroom the subject depth and professional experience of a lifetime in the workplace. Paul M. Simon lives in Wilmington.