Teacher Concerns about Age Discrimination and the Teacher Shortage
Many teachers raised concerns about age discrimination relating to the current teacher shortage after a recent post. I gathered what I had learned and I have added additional information. I also provide links at the bottom to other important articles about this topic.
It is important to state that older teachers want to encourage young people to go into teaching as a long-term career. Children and teens need teachers of all ages leading their classrooms.
But there is no doubt a serious effort is underway to make teaching into a short term service job—one could liken it to young people who join the Peace Corps.
Teaching should be a profession, and long-term experience valued. It should not be seen as a stepping-stone to build one’s career and enter another profession.
Here is a list of condensed comments concerns and also added information I found on this topic.
- NOLA Firings. After Katrina, not only were older teachers pushed out of New Teacher Concerns about Age Discrimination and the Teacher Shortage:
