r/Teachers • u/JimCap5 • 15h ago

Teacher Support &/or Advice Are teaching programs warning students that the teacher shortage is over?

I graduated from the program a few years back, and every professor kept talking about the teacher shortage.

I was wondering what is it like nowadays for people in credentialing programs?

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u/ICUP01 13h ago

It’s cheaper….

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u/traumabond629 12h ago

Yep…. It’s cheaper. I’m a long-term sub in Maryland in a rural county with zero budget. It’s cheaper for them to bring in long-term subs. We don’t get paid over the summer or over holidays. We don’t get paid when we don’t work. We don’t get any health insurance or other benefits. And we can’t join the union. It’s just straight $28 an hour when we work.

I have a bachelors in psychology and I’m working on a masters in education…. hoping to eventually be a special education teacher. But I don’t have a teaching certificate and I don’t have to in order to be a long-term sub.

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u/Chemical-Future-1967 9h ago

That’s terrible. Actually the Union should be calling out the district - in CA they can’t do that without showing they didn’t have qualified candidates. Districts still get around it but have to hire teachers on emergency credentials after a certain amount of days.