Michigan So Short of Teachers that Lunch Ladies and Janitors May Become Substitutes – IOTW Report

Michigan So Short of Teachers that Lunch Ladies and Janitors May Become Substitutes

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Michigan schools will be allowed to use non-teachers as substitutes amid a worker shortage that has been exacerbated by the spread of the omicron COVID-19 variant.

Gov. Gretchen Whitmer announced on Monday she signed legislation to address a teacher shortage in the state by allowing staff members such as secretaries and paraprofessionals to work as substitutes until the end of the school year. 

Michigan typically requires substitute teachers without a teaching certificate to have an associate’s degree or 60 semester hours of college credit, with some exceptions for employees teaching career and technical education classes, according to FOX2. More

21 Comments on Michigan So Short of Teachers that Lunch Ladies and Janitors May Become Substitutes

  1. At least the janitors, secretaries and paraprofessionals (plumbers? electricians?) will be able to teach the children some real-life useful skills instead of the indoctrination and propaganda currently being foisted on the students.

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  2. Michigan Education Association has been critical of the bill. Spokesperson Thomas Morgan slammed the legislation saying educators need increased pay and to be treated “like the professionals they are.” Anything else, he said, would be “at best a stopgap solution to a massive problem.”

    That quote tells you all you need to know, doesn’t it?

    More than likely, the students will get a better education from people that have actually worked real jobs.

    I come from a long line of public educators, including my mother, and all but one, who is a sickening leftist, to the highest degree, are disgusted with the state of education today.

    As am I.

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  3. “May Become Substitutes”

    I bet they can teach a better class room without adding in all the gay pride crap, the racists crap, on and on. Teachers nowadays are nothing more than overpaid babysitters, and bad ones at that.

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  4. And I’m goin for the punt, as long as they can keep politics, covid & weapons off the table & use a common sense approach it just might work in a pinch. I have had worst.

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