It’s working poorly. All the school districts near me have chronic teacher shortages, and there’s tremendous teacher turnover. Occasionally a teacher will go h

It’s working poorly. All the school districts near me have chronic teacher shortages, and there’s tremendous teacher turnover. Occasionally a teacher will go homeless before leaving for a district with lower cost of living. A prominent neighborhood activist has switched from NIMBY to YIMBY because his wife was recruited on an emergency basis to teach high school English without a teaching certificate, and has been teaching for the past several years. All the teachers I know of my age are living either with parents or with their parents’ financial assistance. The one mitigating factor is that young parents are having difficulty affording this region, so schools are starting to close and not need any teachers anymore.