Licensing 'misunderstanding' may cost some teachers their jobs, heightening state's critical teacher
Toward the end of the school year and after settling into her new life, a Mississippi Delta-based teacher let her family back in India know that the time was right for them to sell most of their belongings and move to join her. Just a few days after that, she learned she would not be eligible to teach again next year.
“I just broke down … because it’s really, really difficult,” she said. The elementary school teacher asked not to be named for fear of potentially losing her visa and fear of retribution.
She can’t come back to teach in the Mississippi Delta next year because of an issue with meeting requirements to renew her teaching license – an administrative matter that will cost dozens of others their teaching jobs in an area of the state already experiencing a severe teacher shortage.
“You cannot even imagine the kind of stress I’m going through right now. I was … sure that I was going to be here so there wasn’t any problem with my family (moving to Mississippi). But right now we’re in a big mess because I cannot enroll my daughters in school or in university because of the situation of not having a job,” the teacher said.
Read more: https://mississippitoday.org/2019/06/07/licensing-misunderstanding-may-cost-some-teachers-their-jobs-heightening-states-critical-teacher-shortage/
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