nfitz
Superstar
Not sure your point. For my entire life I've been hearing how we've got more teachers than positions (it's more than 30 years now I think about it ... as I recall warning when I was in school that there was no point in going into teaching. I don't see much difference here.You may have been hearing it, but that's the reality.
More importantly, I don't see the relevance of this to school closures.
Even the small schools I'm familiar with seem to manage to get close to the maximum of 20 students in each classroom for the junior grades. There'd be a handful less positions perhaps ... but there isn't a significant saving. And it's certainly dwarfed by the rollout of full-day kindergarten.Less schools presumably means less teachers. I think you'd have to be naive to believe that staffing levels would likely remain the same...
The issue isn't that classrooms are half-empty. The issue is that schools don't have enough classrooms being utilized.