Blair Silver

Posted on 10/23/09

On 10/22/09, Answers wrote:
> 1) All you have to do is read the papers.
> 2) No
> 3) No, the classrooms are more crowded now as schools make due with
> less teachers.
> 4) No. Businesses shut down and huge chunks of property taxes
> disappeared. Income tax revenue has shrunk due to unemployment,
> stock market losses, etc. Therefore, state aid to schools is cut
> also.
> 5) It disappeared along with the economy. People who were going to
> retire didn't. People crowded the schools in anticipation of the
> supposed shortage. People who got laid-off in industry went
> through alternate route programs. Supply outran demand.
>
> That quote you noted was before the events of 9/11 which caused the
> first economic blow of the century. That was 8 years ago. That's
> a lifetime in today's economic cycles. Depending on information
> that old is unwise.
>
>
> On 10/22/09, Jake in Jersey wrote:
>> On 10/11/09, ron/nj wrote:
>>> The job market is very bleak right now unless you are looking

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>>> in one of the few areas that are still hiring.
>>>
>>> ron
>>
>> Just why is the job market so poor right now? Has there been a
>> huge drop in enrollment? Did overcrowded classrooms suddenly
>> disappear? Did towns lower property taxes and have to lay
>> people off? What happened to the impending teacher shortage of
>> 2001?
>>
>> "The shortage is critical. We need to hire two million teachers
>> over the next ten years," said Segun Eubanks, teacher
>> recruitment and retention specialist for the National Education
>> Association,
>> ---- quoted in local NJ newspaper Aug 2001

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