After decades of effort gaining better pay, improved working conditions, and an appropriately enhanced level of respect as professionals, it is ironic that teachers themselves have done serious damage to public education during the pandemic, especially as it wanes. Prediction: public school enrollment markedly declines; private school enrollment skyrockets; public school levy issues will face stiff resistance in the near term.
After decades of effort gaining better pay, improved working conditions, and an appropriately enhanced level of respect as professionals, it is ironic that teachers themselves have done serious damage to public education during the pandemic, especially as it wanes. Prediction: public school enrollment markedly declines; private school enrollment skyrockets; public school levy issues will face stiff resistance in the near term.