> Teacher candidates must have a minimum of 60 college credits with a 2.5 GPA, and also must receive a passing score on the FLDOE subject area examination for bachelor’s level subjects.

And...

> Veterans must have a minimum of 48 months of military service completed with honorable/medical discharge. If hired by a school district, they have to have a teaching mentor.

So, this is not just dropping some rando off the street into a classroom. Plus, the article points out that some of the teachers don't seem as concerned with the program itself, so much as concerned with what they see as more root-cause, systemic issues.

Plus it's an application process, not just cutting a new path around every school district filter to make some kind of emergency veteran-surge happen.

And on top of that, there's not exactly a sign-up surge:

> The Alachua County public school district currently has more than 60 teaching vacancies. Since the law passed, no veterans or spouses have applied to the school district for a job, spokeswoman Jackie Johnson said.

Seems like it's only been a week or so (?) but still, if the program was really that great, one might expect at least somebody to have applied in that time...