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I don't envy the folks working in middle schools, because kids that age are fucking nuts. However, having two kids in a public middle school right now, I can tell you the quality of staff would shock most people who haven't been around education in a while. Experienced teachers bailed during the pandemic and took all of their institutional knowledge with them. What's left is a bunch of millennial and Gen Z teachers (with a smattering of Gen Xers who got emergency certification - the lifers from Gen X mostly left the profession) with little experience, no work ethic, and subpar educations themselves. The turnover rate is insane, with the average new teacher bailing from the profession within 3-4 years. Texas has one of the lowest (maybe the lowest) average years of experience per teacher in the United States. It's a constant battle. Some of the young teachers are shockingly lazy and will completely ruin a student, not out of spite but out of indifference.
The ratio of quality teachers to those doing the bare minimum was never spectacular in public education, but wholly crap is it bad now. It used to mostly be the math teachers who dialed it in, as that subject lends itself to it (five minutes explaining a topic on the board followed by handing out worksheets and having the kids grade their own papers, basically just following a textbook all year and never working outside of classroom hours - what a tough gig). Now, it's every subject. As teachers have been saddled with more regulatory busywork, they (perhaps understandably) do less and less actual teaching. And, in Texas, at least, the old tradition of having coaches who can barely spell their own name teach academic courses is still alive and well, and it's as shitty as it ever was. We had one goofy Gen Z football coach teaching Texas History carry a baseball bat around like he's Morgan Freeman in "Lean on Me", slamming it on desks if students weren't paying attention. His bat was taken away from him like a dangerous toy is taken away from a child. However, every kid in his class has a 100 because he's just that good /eye-roll/. Jaime Escalante he is not.