Teachers are quitting because they are poorly paid, poorly supported, evaluated by how their students pass standardized testing, blamed for everything by crappy parents and right wing extremists. Am I missing anything?
Teachers are quitting because they are poorly paid, poorly supported, evaluated by how their students pass standardized testing, blamed for everything by crappy parents and right wing extremists. Am I missing anything?
I'd love to see folks argue against these rock solid points.
There is a teacher shortage in many districts that are not as desirable to live/teach in. So although there may be an approximate equal number of supply of teachers with the demand overall in the country, as the study showed, the reality is people don't just move willy-nilly to fill open positions (especially if pay, support and resources are low).
THERE IS NO TEACHER SHORTAGE. Read pages 3-8 of the report you linked. THERE IS NO TEACHER SHORTAGE.
My local school district currently says they can’t fill 20 teaching positions. How is that not a shortage?
Paterson, NJ is giving a $7500 signing bonus to new teachers and Newark is doing $4000. That doesn’t happen without a shortage. Paterson currently has 130 openings.
My teacher friends tell me that the number one reason for their misery is lack of respect from parents. It is not unusual for only one or two parents out of a whole class to show up semiannual student teacher conferences, much less PTA meetings. Yes, shoving politics in the way doesn't help, low pay (in some districts) doesn't help and neither does the bureaucracy.
Bu the abdication of parental responsibility is what makes the job so hard.
Teachers are quitting because they are poorly paid, poorly supported, evaluated by how their students pass standardized testing, blamed for everything by crappy parents and right wing extremists. Am I missing anything?
It’s actually the left wing etremist, you know the ones that want to be victims, don’t teach their children structure and discipline, rely on the government to pay their bills, have multiple different kids with multiple different people, and then teacher have to deal with these kids, all the while other liberals talk about some “systematic” oppression or other reason you’ve got the distinction in these households
I’d say they fit the definition of “crappy parents”. By right wing extremists I was referring to the book banning and suppressing history types of folk.
six figures to babysit? What a lame profession. Wow, work from 8:30 to 2:00 and get summers off? Are they back to work yet or still hiding from Covid? Replace em all with robots. That will serve them right.
I am very busy 95% of the time in my job but on that rare occasion when I finish all of my projects amd have 2 hours free, I am miserable. People don't want to teach because they want jobs that challenge them.
All my teachers friends would last 6 months in a high pressure corporate/engineering/business environment. I've witnessed this firsthand a couple of times...
