Staffing shortages are leading school districts to look for 'bodies in a room to babysit kids' as last-ditch efforts to keep their doors open, one education researcher told Axios.
eliminated college credit hours as a requirement for substitute teachers.by a waning substitute teacher force, many of whom left the profession during the pandemic.
"Substitute teaching is not a profession for the faint of heart," said Julia Kaufman, an education policy researcher at RAND corporation. Plus, low pay, minimal benefits and the overall view of substitute teachers contribute to the sub shortages, Myrtle Washington, a veteran substitute teacher in D.C. Public Schools, said.
"A lot of substitute teachers did not think it was worth it, risking their lives, in this city, for $15 an hour."Principals are stressed, too. "This has been one of the toughest years for educators ever," one principal said. "Regardless of how we categorized principals, about 75% to almost 90% of principals ... reported that they experienced frequent job-related stress," according to a
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