@FeartnTired They do also get student-teachers that are close to graduating and make their contract count as part of their practicum hours. But then they need to be supervised, which means someone has to be evaluating them. It's a somewhat better solution, but still not ideal.

Last year there were 30 000 unqualified or not yet qualified teachers across the province. That's about a quarter of the workforce. All these great thinkers trying to figure out why more people don't want to be teachers....