Kids Are Back At School, But Where Are the Teachers?
Fifth & Mission
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The Challenge of Getting Teachers From Parents
Oakland's superintendent says there have been pleas to parents to see if they might want to become teachers. Have you ever heard of that working? Yes, I do think there are some parents who perhaps went to college but raised their children and maybe didn't work. Jill: They'll go to mid-career professionals, engineers who are kind of like, yeah, I'm kind of done with engineering and they're like, huh, teach math.
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