S. Department of Education, by 2006, America will educate almost three million more children than today--more than 54 million students. When this occurs there will be many doors of opportunity as well as obstacles to open. For example there will be a lot of jobs opening. RNT's records show that there will be a demand for at least two million teachers in the next ten years. On the contrary no one will want to work them for many reasons. These same reasons constitute teacher shortage.
Some of these reasons that constitute teacher shortage are pay, environment, process of certification, student attitude, retirement, immigration, growing school population, demand for smaller classes, and multiple roles as teacher.
Many people like to work in a field where they have one specific job and that is all that they do. Being a teacher requires a lot more of you. Most of the time you have to be mom, dad, sister, brother, researcher, analyzer, friend, and teacher what ever that child needs you to be in order for them to learn. As a Great mind once said, "to teach a child is to reach a child" (Lanya Hardy). Some people do not like having to play those multiple roles in order to reach a child, so they choose not to teach. Others choose not to try and play those roles because of the attitudes of the students. It is very hard for some of them to open up listen and get home off the mind. Therefore they make it hard for the ones that are trying to help them. When someone is doing things out of the kindness of their heart, they do not want to deal with attitudes. That also falls along the lines of immigration as well. People with different ethnic backgrounds do things different ways. When things are different from ones norm sometimes one is more likely get uneasy. That is how some of the students that immigrate may react. On top of all that, it is not always easy for them to communicate. When we do not have enough bilingual teachers on staff it makes it harder for the anilingual teachers to perform their duties.