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I have no idea what it's like everywhere else, but in Illinois, we have teachers who can't get jobs for anything. I work (at a grocery store) with two ladies who have Master's degrees in education - and can't find a job to save themselves. I have another friend here who just got OUT of teaching (not by her own choice, but because the state cut her position), and is trying desperately to get a degree in Accounting so she can go to work for her father's accounting firm, because the prospect of another teaching job is so unlikely. We don't need MORE teachers, we need jobs for the ones we already HAVE!
Illinois isn't paying their bills, and that includes the payments to the schools. So the schools are doing everything they can to hang on by their toenails, cutting positions, cutting programs for special education, cutting aides.
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