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Michael Zwaagstra, a public high school teacher and a senior fellow with the Fraser Institute, provided the following opinion article.Having too few teachers in the education system also puts added strain on the teachers currently working in schools. For example, the lack of substitute teachers means regular teachers must give up their prep time to cover classes for teachers who are ill. This leads to teacher burnout, which makes the teacher shortage even more acute.
However, Houston’s proposal gets things backwards. Instead of removing the bachelor’s degree requirement, Houston should instead look at cutting the number of education courses students must take for a bachelor of education degree . In other words, shorten the B.Ed. program itself, not the prerequisites for getting into that program.
Allowing prospective teachers to apply to an education faculty after completing just two years of university education is a pennywise but pound-foolish decision.
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