teacher retirements

In many ways I feel like the boy who cried teacher shortage. We talk about the impending doom of massive teacher retirements, yet every year our resourceful HR departments manage to get just enough teachers to stave off disaster.

And with the many teacher layoffs announced around the country in the last few months, people are wondering if this shortage stuff is all just a way for us to weasel our program into more states. Ultimately, the lesson from the fable may be learned the hard way for many states and districts. When the wolf actually comes, no one will believe us.

Pretty interesting day for education in the press as they are finally breaking the story that I broke on March 20, 2009 about the pending “tsunami” of teacher retirements. USA Today has a piece about it quoting Tom Carroll from NCTAF saying that “we will lose one third of our teachers in the next 5-6 years”.