Israel had destroyed literally all universities in Gaza and damaged over 400 schools. Lest we forget also Israel's deliberate targeting of university professors and academics.
The headline of Gaby Hinsliff's piece this morning in the Guardian says it all:
'if we run out of teachers, who will teach our children?'
The crisis in our schools is not just an immediate problem of education but will have impacts across the generations.
We needed to have sorted this out long ago, but the toxic impact of Tory education policy has undermined, disempowered & compromised the teaching profession to such an extent we're now in crisis
Republicans in Tennessee are out of their fucking minds. What kind of insanity is this?
The solution to school shootings isn’t to arm teachers!
America is a shit show beyond all logic. The unfathomable has become reality here. Nationalists like to say “these colors never run.” But they do. The color red plentifully runs through our streets.
I'm a Tenured College Professor. I'm Quitting. Here's Why. Americans are letting education fall apart. Politicians are helping it.
JESSICA WILDFIRE April 27, 2024
You may recall I posted recently nearly exactly the same thing this professor is saying. The goal of the right is to eliminate education for all but the very wealthy chosen ideological few. It used to serve the christo-fascists b/c it taught white-washed false history, pretending missionaries destroying other people's cultures and killing off everyone who refused to submit to their cult were somehow "good" things. It pretended bronze age, unscientific, bigoted puritan fairy tales were a "good" basis for society. It pretended exploitation is a "good" economy. Now that education has discovered those "truths" are in fact lies, the christo-fascists have no further use for education. Now it's a threat to them, and their power, and their wealth.
If you read the FT, you'll be keenly aware of ex-journalist Lucy Kellaway's New Teach charity that has been running a very successful programme to get older workers who fancy a change in career to become teachers.
But, of course, this relatively cheap to run but successful scheme to reduce the shortage of teachers, has been defunded as part of the Dept. of Education's need to find budge cuts to fund (more) tax cuts.
The Tories have little care about public education!
'Following the successful development of the Black Teacher Archive (BTA), beginning in 2020 with initial funding from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and the BTA’s public unveiling in 2023, a pair of new grants will allow the project to expand its reach and impact in the coming years.'