Shortage of Math teachers -doesn't Add up?

Well it does actually. The State is good at creating shortages, everything is rationed including education. In a free market of education there would be no shortage of math and science teachers as academic rigor would be rewarded accordingly and this would attract the brightest and best.

In the state system with its abandonment of academic standards it pays to major in soft undemanding subjects that do not require much or any intelligence from the teachers giving them an easy ride at the expense of education of the students. With a little fiddling and debsasing of the examination currency everyone comes out with a's and b's anyway so no effort is required all round and indeed incompetence and sloth are rewarded and academic rigour punished by association.

The end result is the UK falls behind academic international tables where the results cannot be evaded and objective standards reveal the true picture of UK educational decline.

With teachers in effective sinecures and hyperactive incessant examinations designed to conceal the educational decline the State system has well and truly betrayed countless generations which must explain low productivity levels in the workplace full of uneducated non productive workers demoralized by their blighted and compromised educational background.

Yes glad you asked! the Capitalist Party would abolish State education and every child would be privately educated in an unregulated untaxed system. Let a million educational flowers bloom!