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Former Teachers Find Professional Homes as Kumon Instructors
The teacher shortage in the U.S. and Canada isn’t due to an aging workforce focused on retirement. It isn’t from major layoffs. They are quitting. Low pay, burnout, lack of support, political games and the requirement to be more than an educator are driving teachers away from their profession, but they aren’t leaving the workforce. Many of those teachers are leaving the profession to find successful second careers as Kumon instructors. That was the case for Pamela Kozak, who had been a teacher for 13 years in Massachusetts. But the longer she was a teacher, the more often she was asked to be more than a teacher. Her profession was requiring her to be a fundraiser,…


