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Certified teacher struggling to land full-time job in spite of shortage (www.cbc.ca)
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As schools turn to university students and graduates without a teachers' degree to cope with a shortage, a certified teacher from Dieppe says she's been trying to find full-time work without success.

Dieppe resident Allie Fanjoy was hired as a supply teacher for the coming school year in late August, but she says the process was slow and frustrating.

More frustrating, she says, was learning that schools in the anglophone system are still short by 32 teachers β€” and three districts of the four are relying on 132 people on local permit contracts.

Local permit contracts enable school districts to hire people without teaching degrees, and some with no university degree at all.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)

They talk a lot about the high number of non-certified teachers that have been hired, but how many certified teachers have applied and not gotten a full-time gig?

If it's 10, maybe the school districts have an issue.

If it's 1, maybe the issue is with her?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I wouldn't be surprised if the problem is that the schools don't want to pay a good wage

[–] MustardCabbage 6 points 2 months ago

Speaking as a former teacher, this is also the result of the increasing stresses in the profession. The pattern for the last couple decades has been to continually load teachers with more responsibilities while providing less support, and many who are trying to enter the profession are burning out and switching to other jobs. I can't imagine many of those graduates would want to come back without a significant increase in compensation or a change in the culture.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Technically, it's probably the government providing too little funding to school boards to cover hiring enough qualified teachers. But you're right; this is clearly a structural problem:

More frustrating, she says, was learning that schools in the anglophone system are still short by 32 teachers β€” and three districts of the four are relying on 132 people on local permit contracts.