Should It Matter If Parents Disagree With A Teacher's Private Life and Political Beliefs? The Covid Teacher Shortage! Why Are Fewer People Becoming Teachers? Is it A Problem? Possible Solutions?

Th Best Paragraph I've Read: "To Ms. Hostetter's backers, the entire affair is being overblown by an intolerant mob of woke liberals who have no respect for the privacy of someone's personal politics.  Yet Ms. Hostetter's politics, while personal, are hardly private..." This article comes from the New York Times.  The article is titled: "A Teacher Marched to the Capitol.  When she Got Home, the Fight Began."  The article is written by Matthew Rosenberg.  You can read the article here: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/10/us/politics/kristine-hostetter-capitol.html Zac and Don discuss whether the private life and political beliefs of teachers should have any impact on their professional lives in the classroom.  In addition, Zac and Don discuss the current teacher shortage.  They talk about possible reasons why fewer people are going into the profession. The following Axios article is referenced when talking about the teacher shortage. https://www.axios.com/teacher-shortages-pandemic-jobs-169c8518-d9a9-4b75-8e1d-26609dc3261d.html