Teaching is one of the most rewarding careers available today, and all those who walk it’s hallowed halls — who seek to help the leaders of tomorrow understand and question the world they live in — feel in at least some small way the enormous responsibility that sits on their shoulders. That being said, teaching is also one of the most competitive careers bogged down with an archaic hiring system, hidden within a labyrinth of hiring criteria, defined by the age old mantra ‘it’s who you know, not what you know’, and dripping with bias, contempt and hypocrisy. Sadly, there is no single problem with the teaching profession in the province of Ontario; it is hampered by a laundry list of small problems that cause the system to grind to a halt.
It is my goal to document and explore these problems, perceived or otherwise, and attempt to start a conversation to either categorically disprove my observations of a system in failure, or to suggest ways in which we can improve the hiring process in Ontario.
