From Deseret News archives:
Teacher exodus costing Utah taxpayers a bundle
The "Utah Educator Supply and Demand Study," commissioned by the Utah State Office of Education (USOE) and the State Board of Regents, was to determine what to do about meeting the demand for more teachers needed to educate the 49 percent student growth over the next 20 years. The study recommended Utah's higher education institutions will have to do two things: increase enrollment and place more of their students in the state school districts.
And the USOE needs to help educators who left to have families return to the profession. All this does is assure full employment for college professors and state administrators.
No one seemed to notice the most important finding: that 40 percent of those who graduate from Utah teacher colleges never enter the profession and that another 40 percent leave the profession after five years. What is clear is that the state doesn't have a supply problem. It has a hemorrhaging problem.
Many don't want to enter the profession, and those who do want to leave it as soon as they can. Talk about a waste of tax dollars.
The truth is that many are leaving because of the oppressive and stressful working conditions now prevalent in today's schools. The state says, because of budget cuts, districts are increasing class sizes to use the same number of teachers. Researchers claim that will work in the "short run." That's OK, unless it's your student now sitting in overcrowded classrooms.
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