For me it’s also the measles thing currently going on

It's so weird that here in my state they are having 100+ applicantions for every open position.

Could It be because it pays one of the higher wages in the nation and the state next to it pays on average 1/3 less.

It's almost as if there is no teacher shortage, there is a shortage of pay to teachers.

The Florida Legislature currently has HB13 waiting to pass. It ups the minimum wage for teachers to $65k. Would start Fall 2024.

It doesn't fix all of the issues, but I was happy to see that bill. https://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2024/13

Were the front line on the war against stupidity.

I read it that way too. Agreed about it being an oddly accurate description.

Well, didn't they say that soldiers could teach? (The front line are probably safer.)

To combat their idiotic fight against the made-up problem they call "wokeness".

All the knowledge in the World is at our fingertips and some of us choose to put on blinds...

Suuuuper weird. I'm willing to bet that they will settle for substandard teachers to fill the void. Teachers who will be okay with not teaching "challenging" topics like equal rights and evolution

Texas is going to be in the same boat. I know of two other teachers from the high school I teach at doing the same thing I'm doing and leaving the state this summer.

Believe me Florida does not make it easy to be a teacher and Ron Desantis’s policies have a lot to do with this.

But the primary factor is pay. Teachers are laughably under paid in Fl. My sister has been teaching for 15 years makes little more than she did when she started. Most of the teachers my two older kids had in their elementary school have left for better paying careers. The number of teachers moving into the profession is not enough to compensate for retiring older teachers and the loss of teachers to other professions.

It’s simple supply and demand. Pay your fucking people and they will stay.

if you say the wrong thing

...or use the wrong books

Or end up behind bars.

Florida logic for you

It's the U.S., they practically are.

same. had to read it a couple more times to realize combat can be a noun or a verb. It's a verb here. And pronounced differently with emphasis on the second syllable.

I must be a jaded fucking US citizen (or maybe a normal one) for thinking the same. And it's Florida, so that wouldn't be surprising in the least.

I'm sure the headline was constructed exactly for that reason.

It is on purpose. The GOP wants an uneducated populace.

After all these years of complaining that one baseless sexual harassment allegation will get you fired, they've now made a system where being "woke" gets you fired. Irony level: Darth Plagueis the Wise.

Why buy a few votes when you can buy a lot?

(Most) teachers don't eat people.

You are what you eat so I suppose I’m happy they’re not eating dumb people.

Don't worry, they'll just change and lower the requirements until they no longer have to rely on smart people.