Charles Ungerleider, a professor emeritus of educational studies at UBC, wrote an op-ed in the Vancouver Sun on the difficulties school boards are facing in hiring teachers for newly restored positions. He said the problem is not a matter of supply but of distribution, as some teachers may not want to serve in rural or remote areas, or in cities where housing costs are high.
“It may take several weeks to recruit the full complement of teachers required to deliver the array of programs needed, but the hires will be made and schools will soon return to the form that places B.C. public schools among the best in the world,” he wrote.
