Letter: I know why we have a teacher shortage

(Jeremy Harmon | Tribune file photo) Jason Brown, left, and Ari Bruening, of Envision Utah, meet with The Salt Lake Tribune on April 9, 2019. The group conducted a survey of the number of teachers in Utah.I read in Wednesday’s Salt Lake Tribune that Envision Utah wants to study Utah's teacher shortage. Do we really need another study?

A few years ago, I wrote a commentary stating that a third of the teachers in the Granite School District (and possibly in the Jordan School District, too) would be retiring by the year 2020, and Utah would be facing a huge teacher shortage. Many of those retiring have 30-plus years of teaching.

Rather than take note of these numbers, the state chose to cut…