Teacher Shortage or Glut?

[DirkGently]

4. It feels like part of a strategy to degrade the profession & public education.

Smash the unions. Slash the workforce. Make public education an unpopular and poorly respected profession.

Then start over, with (more) poorly paid, teachers without tenure or advocacy. Bring the whole thing down to the level of widget production, which is how Republicans conceptualize public education.

The idea is to ensure that government can provide no effective service to the public at large. The rich can always afford good schools. Why arm the middle and working class with knowledge, when they're only good for working for low wages?

And, as a bonus, they can shove nonsensical testing schemes and for-profit schools down our throats as the supposed solution.