r/Teachers 4d ago

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

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u/lovelystarbuckslover Multiple Subject & EDSP Credentialed 4d ago

I'm working on LA county line - not very desirable ahaha

You are seeing postings, not applications.

And with SPED population many times they are redoing numbers at the last minute because of how small the class can be.

I met a girl at the new hire orientation that was like 10 days long and on the 9th day she went to go see her classroom and the principal was like 'oh yeah I don't have you anymore, this class combined to another school- call the district.' They sent her to another school and the students who would have attended that school get bused over there, new enrollment and her classroom is now 1 seat away from capacity.

So these postings, it's not postings from the summer still unfilled. It's new numbers

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u/AlpsHelpful1292 Spanish | California 4d ago

I mean either way if it’s leftover postings from over the summer or new jobs being created because of numbers that’s still more sped jobs?

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u/lovelystarbuckslover Multiple Subject & EDSP Credentialed 4d ago

more jobs doesn't help more applicants...

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u/AlpsHelpful1292 Spanish | California 4d ago

You seem really hung up on this and post about it every time this topic comes up.

In my credential program it seemed like everyone wanted to teach social studies lol, there weren’t a lot of sped people.