Why can’t APS find teachers?

There are two forces at play;
1.    There is a global disinterest in teaching careers in general for a number of clearly understood reasons, and
2.    There is a local disinterest in teaching in APS schools specifically for reasons which are not clearly understood.

The reasons that teachers do not want to teach in APS classrooms is not clearly understood because there is no data understand.  In the absence of any evidence to the contrary;  it is reasonable to assume APS still does not do exit interviews.

Why would the leadership of the APS decide to not do exit interviews?

Perhaps it never occurred to them.  Or
Maybe it did occur to them and, they made a deliberate decision to not gather that data.

Why would they not gather data on why teachers no longer want to teach in the APS?  Why, except that the data reflects badly somehow on the leadership of the APS?


How might the data indict the leadership of the APS?

For one, more than a few teachers are fed up with trying to teach in out of control classrooms and schools. And, the leadership of the APS is directly responsible for the “out of control” in schools.
It is the leadership of the APS, the board, who write discipline policies; it is the leadership of the APS, administrators, who do or do not enforce them adequately.

A significant number of APS schools and classrooms are out of control.

Who is in control in a classroom or school, the adults who write the rules or the students who deliberately disobey them?

All nonsense? 

You have to wonder why nobody ever talks about student discipline and about chronically disruptive students.

“To fear to face an issue is to believe that the worst is true”. Ayn Rand

You have to wonder why the Journal never investigates and reports upon student discipline in the APS; even to report that all is well.

Except that it has never occurred to them.  Or
Perhaps it did, and they made a deliberate decision to catch and kill the story.