Nationwide Teacher Shortage: Reasons behind it, Impact of it, How to Overcome it :
Recently with many questions of tolerance and ethics rising, people have asked for a change in the education system. With schools in progressive states, like my former high school in California, swapping its current education standards for courses that stray away from Eurocentric perspectives, teachers are forced to create new curriculum to adapt to the changing times. On the opposite end of the political spectrum, with the rise in ethics and comprehensive education, many parents have become opposed to schools’ attempt of disregarding traditional and archaic teaching standards. Whether the education be around comprehensive sexual education, the reading and teaching of literature that revolves around the Holocaust, or the acceptance and share of information towards the LGBTQ+ community, there has been a strong pull against these aspects fo education. The “Don’t Say Gay Bill” Signed by Florida Govenor Ron DeSantis in March 2022 requires schools to not discuss LGBTQ+ subjects to grades kindergarten to third grade. The introduction and media discourse around this law has led other school districts in other states to either loosen or tighten its stance on seemingly “controversial” topics (topics that demote ignorance and White, Chritstian supremacist values).