According to a study, students at a Chicago high school went many weeks without a teacher due to a teacher shortage and persistent absences at Chicago Public Schools (CPS).
The Chicago Block Club claimed that Roberto Clemente Community Academy (RCCA), a high school near Humboldt Park and West Town, is experiencing staffing challenges.
According to reports, the high school’s staffing shortage stems from a wider issue. Teachers informed the Chicago Block Club that Clemente’s problems are “compounded by the management and leadership approach of administrators.”
RCCA has mostly assisted Puerto Rican families since the mid-1970s.
“According to CPS data, over 46% of teaching personnel had more than 10 absences in 2023. According to the survey, nearly half of Clemente’s teachers missed at least two weeks of school.
According to the site, “Clemente is emblematic of a broader problem: CPS schools—and many other public schools across the country—are hamstrung by funding constraints and a nationwide teacher shortage, education experts said.”
According to the source, CPS authorities “insist Clemente doesn’t have staffing issues.”
Fox News Digital previously reported on the difficulties of finding teachers around the country. In Arizona, about a quarter of all teaching positions are consistently empty.
Due to a teacher shortage, districts around the country are shortening school weeks and merging classrooms.
Nevada, Florida, and Michigan, like Illinois and Arizona, struggle to replace school openings in more than half of their districts.
To address the teacher shortage, school districts throughout the country are expanding their foreign hiring efforts.
“They forgot about us,” Carolina Carchi, a student at RCCA, overheard a classmate say. Her students were “growing restless” and “sitting in their classroom with little to do,” according to the site.
Carchi was encouraged to teach chemistry after hearing a classmate’s statement.
“When I heard that, this spark and passion grew within me,” Carchi told the outlet.
The pupils were assured that a permanent teacher would be assigned to their classroom, but the teacher never showed up. Furthermore, they were assigned a substitute teacher who did not know how to teach chemistry.
Carchi reportedly assured herself, “No, you are not going to be left out; they did not forget about you, and I will be here to prove it.”
The 15-year-old spent two months teaching her classmates over the winter of her sophomore year.
According to the outlet, no regular teacher was assigned to the course until the following fall.
“Clemente students are missing critical instruction because so many teachers are regularly absent and positions go unfilled for long stretches,” according to the Chicago Block Club.
“As they deal with the stresses of working with students with significant needs, teachers say they’re not getting support from the school’s principal, which has left them burnt out and demoralized — and often absent,” the news organization reported.
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