Re:Teacher shortage? (Score 1)

"Teachers do not work 40+ hours/week"???? Please try knowing what you're talking about before you open your mouth. My wife is an ESE teacher at a science magnet school. She has to be at work at 7:15am, and on average she gets to leave school premises at 3:30pm. That's a little over eight hours in the saddle. Add in the time she spends at home and on the weekends grading papers and doing research and writing up educational plans and talking to parents and she's at 50+ hours per week. Yeah, she gets summers off. But she only gets paid for ten months per year, so it's not (like you made it sound) a two month paid vacation. I volunteer in her school, and I see what she has to work with (and overcome).