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Show Teacher Shortage Continues to Prevail in Utah Approximately 300 teachers have been placed for the 1952-53 school year through the Brigham Young university student placement place-ment bureau, according to Edgar M. Jensen, bureau director. "Calls continue to pour in from all over the intermountain area seeking teachers," Mr. Jensen said, "but they are mainly requests re-quests for vacancies we are unable un-able to fill." He pointed out that there is a heavy shortage of women teachers teach-ers for physical education, home economics and English. Calls are coming in consistently for teachers teach-ers of biological and exact sciences. sci-ences. However, he reported an over-supply of instructors for men's physical education, and a small surplus of social science teachers. "There is quite a heavy shortage short-age of kindergarten, first, second, sec-ond, third and fourth grade teachers," he revealed. "The supply sup-ply and demand for fifth and sixth grade teachers is about equal. There are many openings throughout the rural communities communi-ties on both the elementary and secondary level. Most everyone prefers to teach in or near a university uni-versity town, and it is a real problem to aid our rural communities." |