As students plan a return to the classroom, gearing up with new notebooks and cool backpacks, some schools could still be trying to find their teachers.
Dawn Etcheverry, a public school music teacher and the president of the Nevada State Education Association, spoke to ABC News’ “Start Here” about what the teacher shortage can mean for the upcoming school year.ETCHEVERRY: Yeah, right now we're tracking over 3,000 jobs that are on our job board. We don't have teachers for the classrooms, and I'm worried about lunch workers who aren't going to be there to serve our kids meals that they need and have missed throughout the summer.
Now they're working in rotation so that the bus driver doesn't even get to know the children that route because every week the change routes. If a child had a bad day, started off a bad morning, they don't have the same face they get every morning greeting them. And we know that COVID brought us into a situation where children's social emotional learning was a big issue. We were isolated. Children weren't getting the time they needed with that adult or other children.STOCK PHOTO/Getty Images
Or let's talk about a geometry teacher in a high school who now has 48 kids and they're trying to read all the proofs. Or an English teacher who has to read all those essays and they're following their curriculum.
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