Here's what they're NOT saying about the teacher crisis...
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- I work with teachers all over the US & Canada and this is what I find is lacking in the conversations regarding the Teacher Crisis.
❤️🩹 The passionate teachers are burning out as a result of overwhelming need, unrealistic workloads, and lack of necessary supports. No matter how hard or how much they work, they are not able to meet the needs of their students.
🧠 The best and brightest are only willing tolerate so much mistreatment, micromanagement, and lack of professionalism and respect before going somewhere that their talents and efforts will be valued and better compensated. I’m seeing this across content areas, grade levels, states, and years of services.
🚨This is a HUGE issue that is not talked about nearly enough. The education systems can continue to stay open with mediocre teachers reciting prewritten lessons in the classroom. Families will still get “free childcare” and the economy will continue. BUT is that what you want for your kids and the fiture citizens of your country?
✅ Here’s what YOU can do:
• Demand better of our policymakers.
• Go to school board meetings.
• Find out how your school taxes are being spent.
• Listen to teachers and speak up on their behalf.
#privatepracticeteacher #leavingtheclassroom #teachersleavingtheclassroom #teacherburnout #teacherrevolution #listentoteachers #educationreform #schoolbudget #yourtaxdollarsatwork
"I don't get it. We refuse to pay teacher fairly, refuse to allow teachers to teach, and refuse to allow teacher to maintain a safe and orderly classroom. Why don't people want to teach?"
What is fair? What should be taught? What is safe? What is orderly? These are questions that have to be answered and we can't just leave it up to teachers.
Money is a finite resource. Do we spend more on special-ed or gifted. More on busses or food. More on textbook or computers. I know what I want but I am not in charge.
Time is a finite resource. Do we teach more about the horrors of slavery or the triumphs of the American experience.
Do we expel the unruly child in pursuit of order or do we leave him in the class, to potentially disrupt the entire school.
The average teacher does not have the answer to these problem even if they think they do.
California just fired 1500 teachers. Those people wanted to teach. A lot of people do.
Ah, so you want to teach students mythology and uphold racist policies
@@ariaflame-au Where did you get that from?
@glennwatson3313 "if we teach Jimmy to read he might read mein kamf."
There’s a quote: “Go to the sound of the guns..”. In other words the solutions to the teaching problem, can be found where the action is, in the classroom with teachers and students. Not at some administrators desk. 🤷♂️
Parents when I grew up: "What did my son do?"
Parents today: "What did you do to my son?"
god thats so correct,so sad
Exactly…. Zero accountability
Exactly
Exactly
Absolutely that’s how it was when I was growing up.💯
I taught middle school science for nine years. During that time worked myself to death to be the best teacher I could be for the students. For my work I received praise from students, won awards and honors for curriculum writing, was voted most popular science teacher several years in a row, but ultimately left the profession because of low pay, lack of respect from parents and administrators, and a really messed up school system that should have been scrapped for something better 100 years ago. I was totally burned out by the time I left and never considered going back to public school teaching again. I have friends in teaching who keep me apprised of the situation in schools and they say it’s gotten much worse for teachers in the 25 years since I quit. Something completely different needs to happen for education and kids. The system we have isn’t serving the needs of children and families.
I agree 💯. I don’t think any meaningful or positive change will happen until teachers are recognized as the educational experts they are. That’s why I’m so passionate about private practice teaching. I think teachers should be able to go into private practice like other highly educated professionals do.
It sounds like it is failing everyone, including the teachers.
@@nellybean69 yes! Sadly yes, and then they struggle to serve our children.
1. No expectation of students learning self-discipline.
2. Too much oversight by states and feds.
3. Student loads too high
4. Low pay
5. Unlike private schools, public schools can’t ask irresponsible or argumentative parents “Where do you want us to send your child’s transcript?”
and in florida you would have gotten between 350-500$ raise,what a joke
Left teaching after 7 years. Made huge impact but could never afford a home or family. I quit without a plan. Im done being treated this way. Im not a slave.
I hear you!
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We have a huge glut of teachers where i am . Then again we over pay them here . ( Highest teacher pay in North America ) .
@@Trackratz-zl9di I'm curious your thoughts on how that has impacted teacher quality. Has the high pay been able to compensate for other failings of the system? In my area, which has decent pay, it has not offset the behaviors, micromanagement, and lack of support and accountability.
@@theprivatepracticeteacher As far as the biggest pros of high pay I think it has drawn good people from back grounds that other wise may not have considered teaching as a profession.Cons the insatiable appetite for more by the unions and a unrealistic belief in their own self importance. . I have three teachers K /12 and one professor , university in my extended family.
I left schools a few years ago before the pandemic. My classes had doubled in size, and we covered during planning most days because there were no substitutes. There is no class budget, so you are paying for supplies. Gang violence was up but our new superintendent wouldn't let you suspend kids until the end of the year so they missed exams, to make the suspe sion and test numbers look good. Principal changed my grades.
I was struggling with being a care giver for my grandfather. I was reprimanded for missing 3 days of school when my best friend suddenly died. My health was in decline due to stress and constant colds. Then I had a TBI and knew I couldn't go back.
I loved my students and still hear from many. I started the spring art festival, ran the drama, art, and world culture clubs, created an advanced art class... and had panic attacks driving into work.
Meanwhile I had a small house I had bought as a foreclosure and had 2 housemates to help afford fixing it. A 17 year old car. Never went out. Thrift store clothes. A $125 food budget that included my dog's food. All that after 10 years of teaching.
I still teach. I just have a home classroom for homeschooling kids, private lessons, retirees, and kids who's schools don't offer art programs. I teach online. I teach at art, senior, and community centers.
I can go to the doctor, the bathroom, have a cup of tea, a hot lunch, no wasted meetings, training on poorly designed curriculum 'updates'. I make the same money for fewer hours worked and a fraction of the stress.
I still feel guilty because I k iw more kids need good teachers. I also know staying wasn't helping. It was enabling a broken system to pretend everything was alright.
Wow. I wish your story was the exception, but I hear similar versions often. I’m so glad you found a way to continue to teach. If you have a website and are interested in working with more students, I’d love to add you to my private practice teacher directory - no charge.
I do get the guilt. I love what I’m doing now. It’s 100% what’s best for me and my family, but I do miss being able to be a resource for students and families who can’t afford to pay me privately.
@Indigo ... My same exact crappy life of low-pay and student loans that went from "maybe able to pay off" $70k to "never able to believe" at $250k because of Fed's locked-in 8.5% interest rate. Yeah, mine grow at $25k+/yr, which is faster than anyone could ever make payments on them -- even just the interest is impossible to keep from growing.
Seriously! It took months after I quit for me to realize I could drink all the water I wanted!
@@Barbara-pe2jf same!! It’s been almost 4 years and I’m still breaking habits and patterns from my time in the classroom!
@@theprivatepracticeteacher it’s funny how I see something at a thrift store and think, “Wow! Could use that for…” 😂😂
My wife taught for a while, and it was an emotional trauma that will always be with her. The system is utterly broken and has more in common with a bad daycare than a place of learning that holds its students accountable.
I'm currently looking for a new job. My students are burnt out husks, and as a society, we've robbed them of their childhoods. Combine that with the crippling inflation, lack of parent and admin support, loss of benefits, and constant worry of getting fired for dumb things... and the excessive lack of self-worth teens have now. It's exhausting, and I need to get out. I've got an interview coming up, and I hate how excited I am. I have wanted to be a teacher since I was in middle school! I've been in education for 10 years. I have been teacher of the year for my region. I have been highly effective all but my first year, and I have been voted favorite teacher by dozens of students, some still email and call. But this dystopia has killed me, robbed me of my joy, and is affecting my family.
I’m so so sorry. What an awful loss for our profession, but I 100% understand. Those are the same reasons I left the classroom. I’m wishing you all the best on your job search. Please know that if you find yourself missing teaching, private practice teaching exists. I’m just finished my 4th year as a self-employed teacher.
Best of luck! I've had an extremely difficult time trying to transition out of the classroom... I've had one interview in the 50 some odd noneducation positions I've applied for in the past two months. One.
It's been like this for decades ... teaching is too often not about teaching (and too many administrators were never good teachers and can't handle innovative teaching ideas and are managers not leaders)!
I agree. I believe this is exactly why it’s getting worse and worse.
Teachers who started 20-30 years ago say it's far worse now.
@@s.i.john16.33I can attest to that. We certainly have a lot worse attitudes from parents.
@michaelwaynetucker No, this is varied with time and place. When I was working in Switzerland this wasn't an issue. Talk to retired teachers. They can tell you about what it was like when this wasn't an issue.
@michaelwaynetucker Plus we can't get complacent about these things. Even if it were true that our education system was never any good, we'd still be obligated to improve it.
Not missing it.
The entire system needs a reset.
The current system was designed by Napoleon Bonaparte.
@johnwilliams3555 mus be how he was defeated, poorly designed system.
The education system in the U.S. used to be founded on a minimal respect for God Almighty, His morals and His ethics. The Ten Commandments actually represent a framework for a life worth living, and a society worth living in. You don’t know that, nor that God determines whether you are blessed, or cursed. Sit down for this one: God Almighty actually thinks He is in charge.
@@johnwilliams3555 I thought it was the Rockefellers, looking for unthinking workers...
I taught for ten years. I left to find better work life balance. I make a similar salary as an administrative assistant (no degree required), and my teacher pay included two master's degrees. I now work 40-45 a week. (Yes, no summer break, but a healthier trade off) When teaching, it was working 50-60 hours. The first year of COVID, it was 60-100 hours. It was so unhealthy! That year was my last because it pushed me to realize how much teaching took away from my personal life. It wasn't sustainable, and I couldn't survive another year like the first COVID year. If it happened once, something like that could happen again. I refused to let my job steal my personal life away anymore. My health and personal life are so much better now!
I’m so happy for you. My sister is an administrative assistant and has been making more than I did as a classroom teacher for years! It’s insane how poorly educated professionals are treated in education!
I taught middle school ELA. working 12-14 hours a day, six days a week, was the norm for me. The school board opted to give coaches, coaches only, a 17% raise in pay.
@@Barbara-pe2jfthat’s awful and 100% believable. I’m sorry.
@@theprivatepracticeteacher I retired.
When I worked for a consulting firm, teachers were a great source of new hires. We offered double their current salary and they were great instructors for process and software upgrades as soon as they learned the material.
That’s awesome.
I’m being pushed out because I’m getting top pay. I earn more than my supervisor. She has given me nothing but poor evaluations this year. I’ve been at my school almost 17 years. I filed a grievance against my supervisor twice. All of a sudden, they tell me I’m no longer competent. All the new hires are fresh out of school with this being their first teaching position. This is about money. Administration just gave themselves a huge raise. Needless to say I did not get a raise, along with many other seasoned teachers, because of my poor evaluation. So, this is it for me. My last day is May 24. I’m waiting on paperwork so that I can have an early retirement. Everything in this country is broken: medical system, justice system, educational system, social security system.
I dare them to call me and ask for anything once I leave. I almost hope they do; I would love the opportunity to unleash upon them my verbal wrath
Correct. They want cheap labor. Also saw bullying of staff by incompetent supervisors. I retired five years earlier than planned. This happens to thousands of us. Sending prayers to you!
@@vcoonrod thank you. I’m looking forward to reinventing myself!
I’m a retired school custodian that retired after I hit my 20 years and 55 years of age three years ago for EXACTLY the same reasons that you just said. It goes for us custodians too.
Over the years from 2000 to 2021, I saw our manpower at schools get cut in half. Now all we do is a quick vacuum and dusting and off to the next classroom.
When I was a BSS(building services supervisor) working daytimes, I would come in one hour early without pay to clean classrooms that the night time custodians had no time for.
Everything that you said about passionate teachers leaving because of the sheer abuse goes for us custodians too.
I’m sorry to hear that. Thank you for your years of service.
Thank you for what you did for the teachers and students in your schools!!!
I taught high school for several years. I have so many nightmare stories that sound pretty much like the same stuff written here. I got out of the high school and latter went overseas and taught at a university. My God! The difference and the joy I had doing that job compared to working at a public school in the USA is euphoric! Respect, thirst for knowledge and an actual delight interacting with administrators. Our system is broken in the USA, it has become an indoctrination machine and is a political game between admin and teachers. Can’t say I even remotely miss it. That’s sad because there are so many kids that need good teachers, instead what we have is a nightmare.
I put up with it all for 25 years before I was forced to retire. I'd still be in the classroom today if it hadn't been for the religious prejudice of the principal assigned to my school for my last 3 years. This guy specifically targeted me, but he was so horrible to everyone that 1/3 of the faculty and staff transferred, retired, or just plain quit at the end of his first year there rather than work under him the following year. The same thing happened at the end of his second year. At the end of his third year, I retired (and he even tried to block my retirement).
I was at that elementary school for 20 years, and the kids loved me. For 10 of those years, I was the Science Lab Teacher. It was like PE, Art, or Music - each class, K-5, would come to me once a week for hands-on STEAM activities and experiments, keeping pace with what was being taught in their homerooms. The regular classroom teachers weren't comfortable with Science since they focused on teaching Reading and Math while in college, so my running the Science Lab came as a relief to them. They would teach the book work while I handled the hands-on stuff.
Unfortunately, that jerk who took over my school didn't like Science and thought that it should be taught as an extension of Reading, with no hands-on activities and no following of STEM guidelines. So the Science Lab waa shut down and about 90% of the school's Science supplies were tossed in the dumpster, including materials that I paid for out of my own pocket. He did this on a weekend so that nobody would know that he'd done it until it was finished so no one could contact the county office to get someone to stop him (I still contacted the head of Science Education for the county, but nothing was done to him).
Anyway...
From reading some of the comments here, everyone is in agreement that low pay and disrespect for teachers are big factors in why teachers are leaving te field of Education. However, let's look at a couple of factors that are ruining Education.
Idiots who've been "educated beyond their intelligence" (as the country comedian Jerry Clower used to say). I'm referring to those numbskulls who went to college, did their student teaching (and that was the sum total of their teaching experience), went on to graduate school, and got their doctorate. Then they either got high level jobs in school systems that allow them to make policy decisions based solely on their PhDs, or they get positions in the state government that let's them make policy decisions... all without the benefit of having spent any real time or having and real experience in a classroom, working only on theories and nothing practical. Sigh!
Then there's another thing in Education that I hate: FADS! Every 2 to 3 years, a new fad comes along that's supposed to be THE way to teach our children. So school systems just have to adopt this latest fad, which means all of the old materials have to be thrown away (I was able to snatch up plenty of useful and great Math manipulatives to keep as my own because of this), teachers have to waste time in classes ("professional learning") to learn how to teach this new fad (this after we'd just gotten a handle on the last fad), and then there's the money wasted on the new fad's materials. Two great examples of this...
...my school system adopted a new Math program just before I retired. It's a scripted program. Which means that teachers have to stand at the front of the classroom and read a complicated script, with no deviations allowed whatsoever to explain something that confuses the kids (which is MOST of it). The teachers also have to follow a very strict pacing chart, which leaves a lot of students falling behind.
...my school had a Reading program that wasn't in use because it was incomplete, torn up, and in complete disarray. The new principal comes along, and now we've got to use this Reading system instead of the textbooks. I liked the textbooks - they had stories that the kids could relate to, enjoy reading, and work on together and help each other with their learning, whereas the messed up Reading system was confusing for them (and the teachers, too).
Another problem: state mandated tests. One of my colleagues liked to look over her students' shoulders as they took these end-of-year tests, not so she can teach to the test, but to see how her students were doing. She later told me that she couldn't answer a lot of the questions from the test, and she was a college educated woman with over 20 years of experience as a teacher. That's because the tests are full of trick questions. These kinds of questions don't truly test how much the students have learned. They just confuse the children and make it nearly impossible to do well on the tests.
No wonder test scores are always dropping nationwide.
These tests are also supposed to determine which students should have to repeat a grade, but I've NEVER seen a student left behind ("Oh, that will hurt and traumatize little Johnny too much if he's left behind and all of his friends advance to the next grade without him!" Social promotion! Bah, humbug!).
Sorry I ran a little long, but Education is something that I'm passionate about, so I had a lot to say.
There are several very good points in your message. I hope lots of
people read and understand it.
@@rockym2931
Thank you.
I hope so, too.
I still remember an Earth Science teacher from 50 years ago who developed such a creative curriculum that it still challenges my thinking about The Big Questions today. A dedicated teacher changes lives.
This reminds me of that annoying saying "Those who can't do, teach." I heard a good comeback to that over 30 years ago: "Those who can, teach. Those who can't, pass laws about teaching."
@@julieelizabeth4856
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Made it exactly one year. Woke up every day at 5am. Fell asleep at 11pm - if I was lucky. Too much. And I was barely treading water. Yall got my respect.
That first is so brutal. Without the great support I got from my from admin and other teachers, I don’t know if I would’ve made it either.
And, yeah, for me, I had to learn my curriculum and also create a lot of new testing materials. So, lot of work. Plus, I had to admin tests, grade tests, give feedback, keep office hours, etc. So much work for so little pay. And, funny how all of that extra stuff doesn't contribute to the hours (say 40) that you are paid for working there, but the rest of the stuff is another 20 to 35 extra hours per week.
So many times school boards revolve around standardized test monopolies and punish teachers who teach kids to learn rather than just teaching to the test
School board are corrupt. Ours ignore public outcry against closing 5 schools and quickly voting to cancel school board elections because they were running unopposed then vote to close the schools at next meeting. They ignored the fact that their policies not covid is driving away teachers and students and blamed over 65 home owners tax exemptions for their budget short fall. I presented exactly how they could make 10 million dollars by one change to their plan but they want to close 5 schools and create 2 more administration buildings. They claim it's to boost teacher pay to keep teachers but I retired early inspite of the biggest raise in 25 years. It's not the money it's the policies and lack of discipline support.
That was the entire point behind "No Child Left Behind." That law was about children in the same way Dubya's "Healthy Forest Initiative" was about forests: it was a plan to prevent forest fires by cutting down all the trees. GOPs simply cannot be forthright because what they want for America is something even they know America does not want.
I have been one for 26 years. It’s the hardest thing I have ever done. I have between 10 and 15 years left before I can retire. It gets harder every year and every day. Frankly it’s exhausting. And you know what? I teach in a place where I am better paid than most and it is still hard some days and years to walk in the door and keep going. When people come to me and say how do you do it? I say I made deliberate choice to do this. It’s not like I can’t go do something else. I can. I am skilled in many areas. But I make the choice everyday to continue. And the can’t make that choice hasn’t come for me yet, though, sadly it has for many and it came it a lot sooner for them. No fault in that at all. The average new teacher leaves between the 3rd and 5th years of teaching. And don’t leave because they don’t care. Most leave because they care too much. It can eat away at you slowly and you get to point where you have to do something else and the reasons are not all about pay. Some are, but most aren’t. Low pay, no respect, constant change, people who are not trained teachers making laws and rules in an area they know nothing about, the broken aspects of our education system, and constantly being told EVERYONE knows better than you about what works wears you down. It’s very relentless, so don’t chime in about what you think is wrong with our education system unless you have been in the classroom, you have trained to be there, and you have solution that works in more than just theory. No surprise that the best brightest most caring enthusiastic teachers are leaving. My only question is why is anybody surprised at this?
I'm a substitute in high schools. Seriously, I don't know how teachers stay in the profession. I can tell you that very little teaching goes on. Kids don't care. There might be a handful in every school that care about their education because their parents are professional, but the rest couldn't care less. They're on their phones most of the class period. If you ask them politely to put away their phones, you get cursed out. Most teachers don't bother to even discipline anyone. The kids and their parents run the schools.
The parent's rights movement is deliberate sabotage
Im not a teacher, but the best and most passionate teachers at my old school stayed past their retirement age because of their love for teaching. After budget cuts, corrupt admins, and worsening student behaviors, most of them just chose to retire. The "bad teachers" notorious for not caring about students when i was around still remain after decades of being there. Its just a self-accelerating cycle of negativity that the new generations have to suffer through while admins (at least where im from) convince everyone that there are no problems
Yep. I see that all the time.
@@claudialupperwow!
You are exactly right! The teachers should form their own school co ops with high entrance requirements. No students that even so much as mouth off, no disruptive kids no matter the reason, no parents making excuses. Throw all the behavioral issue kids back to the parents and make them figure it out. We have to save the kids that we can. We don't have time for nonsense.
My husband is a school counselor at a K-2 school and he has been saying this for years.
That’s interesting. Thank you for sharing. So sad. Hoping awareness can lead to change.
I have been a school counselor for over 20 years. We are now beginning to see the same kinds of shortages in school counseling as teachers, for much the same reasons.
Tee hee. I never pick on spelling errors unless they're funny. A K-2 school would be for canine cops, right?
@@havable you've never heard of a K through 2 school? It's not a spelling error is it 🤔
WOW! You're right. I hadn't thought of this aspect before. Usually we just focus on "there is a teacher shortage." "Many teachers are leaving." You are addressing which ones are leaving and I think what you are saying is true and makes me realize the situation is even worse.
(I taught 7-12 Spanish for 15+ years. I'm working from home now.)
Yeah. It’s getting bad. This just occurred to me after chaperoning my daughter’s field trip and talking with her teachers. Her best teachers are already have exit strategies 😢
I’m glad you found a good place for yourself.
This is not new. I have a dear friend who teaches high school. The students are total brats, some violent. Admin does nothing to assist or back up teachers. Honestly, I can't imagine trying to teach in schools today.
This is the actual problem right here. Violent, disrespectful kids. No discipline. Neither parents not admin support the teachers. Why would anyone want to work in this environment?
I teach kindergarten. I am a new teacher that started in January. In April, I got a new student. Very violent and disruptive. Kids are being hurt everyday. I get kicked and hit several times a day. One day I was by myself and she kept coming after me. It was several minutes before I got help. I couldn't protect myself at all and we cannot take her out of the class. The other children have no rights whatsoever. Everything centers on this child and his/her rights. I loved going to work everyday and now I just want to quit but it is only another 3 weeks and I have to keep reminding myself of that.
I taught adult education in several subjects over the years.
I can't begin to explain the difference when you are teaching people who want to be there so much that they are taking time off work and paying to be there, because they have real goals.
I see that too in my work as a self-employed teacher.
The Establishment has driven the conscientious caring individual out of all Realms of service. Those that serve you in politics, education, medical and food ( fast food, farms). The people that are now working in these professions are what's left. What's left are those who went along, to get along. This is not a good thing for life liberty and the pursuit of happiness.🙏
I agree. I saw that same flight of the best in the non profit social services field. Healthy people don't stay in unhealthy systems.
20 years ago I was a teacher....for 6 months. In many ways I don't really qualify as having sufficient experience as a teacher to have much of an opinion but - what a nightmare, it almost killed me in that time. Glad to have never gone back.
It’s always been a hard job, but now it’s nearly impossible in many places.
My father in law had a similar experience.
Very similar to my experience. Middle age career change that was a disaster. The America educational experience is a disaster and it's not fixable. I would beg you to find an alternative way to educate your children.
Parents need to teach their kids respect, how to act properly, without that teachers can't teach.
yes!!
I left education for an early retirement. The only thing I miss are the students. 💔 But definitely NOT the chaos of the Educational System.
I did too, that’s why I started teaching privately. ❤
Parents have become a nightmare for teachers. It's always the dumbest parents, too.
I taught for 6 years - 7 preps, in 2 languages, cheer coach, mentor - I will never go back
Wow! That is an intense course load! I taught 6 preps, but only 1 language and that was a lot.
The normal end result of a (corrupt) government's employees. Whether local or national, the conscientious leave because of all the BS and it only goes down, down, down.
Not being able to teach was terribly frustrating. Checking all the boxes to fit the state requirements in every lesson plan was just painful. Lack of support for classroom namagement was very disappointing. Making math and physics into "group cooperative activities" was insane. Accommodating 1/4 of the class with IEP's, many of them allowing outbursts? Just plain stupid. and a crime against the other students. As my career teaching uncle said "Group cooperative activities only work for two subjects, calisthenics and singing".
The more value you bring the more work they pile on you because they figured out you will get it done while others got time to eat their lunch 🥗, make dinner and watch a movie all the while get the same if not more pay than you; but you one carrying the load, doing the leg work, making the calls, doing what needs to be done…..and then thanks to the whole team, this is what teamwork is all about….whatever 😂
Yep. Been there.
My wife taught for 30 years. She retired last year. It just got worse and worse. She was not allowed to maintain order in her classroom to create a learning environment. No support from parents or administration. She was no longer a teacher--she was just a baby sitter. Both her mental and her physical health were deteriorating at the end of her career.
Unlike others here, it was never about the pay. She knew when she started that she was not going to get rich by being a teacher. For her, it was all about wanting to teach.
After a year of retirement, she is much happier and healthier.
YES!!!! Exactly, This is not an issue you can throw money at. I'm glad she's happy!
Valued, protected, listened to, treated better, respected: all of the above.
School bus driver here, I have no idea how you guys can do it. Respect.
Thanks for your comment and support.
I have no idea how you do that job either. Respect.
Left due to 'death threats' because a chronic absent kid couldn't pass a Math quiz (I sat him next to me for a week trying to tutor him)...and because the retained male kept sexually harassing the girls but each time would get sent back to my room, I gave up the insanity. MY Principal had no balls.
Oh my goodness! I’m so sorry!! I’m glad you’re safe.
home school. Hillsdale College is your friend.
The entire system, including the curriculum, needs to be revamped to meet both the students' and teachers' needs for a healthy, safe, and respectful environment where teachers can enjoy bringing their creativity into the work and students are taught relevant life skills. It truly needs a major overhaul. Also, admin gets away with loading teachers down with a crazy amount of unnecessary paperwork/inane staff meetings, etc., wasting our time. The number of unpaid hours I put into prep work on my own time is incalculable. It's exhausting. It's no wonder that talented teachers are leaving in droves. Teaching should be satisfying and rewarding work that feels energizing...not work that sucks all the energy out of you. In general, teaching is not serving the needs of the students or the teachers - just the admin. and whoever else is making money off this archaic system.
I agree 100%!!
As an adult student I’m completely burnt out. It feels more like HR than advisors who are relatable.
I'm sorry. What are you studying?
We don't have one day of teacher training. But we homeschooled and were shocked how easy it was to blow the government system out of the water. Both our sons were admitted to the University in what would have been 7th grade. They are on scholarships, saving us $25,000 a year each. Getting straight A's in a grade level five years ahead of their cohorts.
The older boy is in aerospace engineering, taking calculus III and engineering fundamentals next semester at age 14. The 13 year old is in process technology. We did not follow any canned curricula. We did what they were interested in. Self-directed learning.
In almost every interaction we had with the government school teachers we were insulted, shamed, guilt-tripped, mocked, and ridiculed. Only one exception.
The head teacher at our local K-8 school (the math teacher) made fun of our 5 year old for knowing the Pythagorean theorem when we visited. She told us she would never "do that" to her students. Like we were really bad people abusing our children.
By our experience, I know the knee-jerk reaction is to come up with straw man sophistry about not being socially developed, pushing too hard, not letting them be children, etc. But they shower us with gratitude every day. We don't have any of the problems we were told that everyone has with children. The first thing people say is how they act so mature. Mini-adults.
Taught college chemistry and loved it, then taught public school for a short time. Even the kids who were difficult were eating out of the palm of kf my hand...they loved me and I loved them. However, I realized really quick that it was a job that would drain everything I had and not a place I would want my daughters to go when their time came, so I quit. I started homeschooling my girls last year and it's the best decision we've ever made.
Agreed 100%. I left teaching. I go where I am wanted. If I am not appreciated, I leave. I enjoyed teaching and the students enjoyed my classes. The enrollment in my classes was up. The students were learning a lot and loving it. But admin made for a hostile work environment. Unsupportive. Micro-managing. So, I left. Hard to do. But I finally ended up with a job that I love where I am appreciated.
You’re right about what’s happened. I saw it coming in the 90’s and quit just a few years later because the children now run the schools. Why? The administrators do not want to face the parents and the parents do not believe that their children are out of control because that would mean they are poor parents. Go to Italy and research the teaching situation there. It’s even worse. They are respected about the same level as people in prison. The insane salaries that are being paid teachers here is not going to get better either.
I feel like this isn't a secret. In any job I've ever had, the first people to leave when things got ridiculous were often the best people there. Our school system is such a mess. It's failing both students and teachers, so it's no wonder that teachers are quitting in droves, and student absences and homeschool rates are at all-time highs. But I also feel like we reap what we sow. In the state where I was teaching, they have passed so many laws limiting what teachers can say, what books we can put on the shelves, laws banning DEI programs, etc; they have passed laws making it easier to arm teachers with guns, but no added funding was allocated for updated buildings with better security or even for buying school supplies. This goes so far beyond just appreciating teachers and giving them better wages and more autonomy. We live in a culture that literally vilifies education and teachers and refuses to take steps to resolve some of the larger social and cultural issues that inevitably end up in school classrooms. When teachers aren't even allowed to acknowledge a student's preferred pronouns or validate a student's experience with racism, how are we supposed to do our jobs in a way that is wholistic and compassionate? And there is nothing in the world that can prepare you for the trauma of being on lockdown because a gun was found in a backpack. Absolutely nothing. I keep telling people that I'm taking a break from teaching, but there are legitimately days where I wonder if I want to go back at all.
Teaching 25 years in very diverse Title I schools, I witnessed all the DEI and CRT based professional development training only make racial issues problems where everyone was getting long fine. My students face alot of confusing social and emotional issues that start in their home environment and woke school policies only confuse them more. We have catered to their screen addictions with iPads and Chomebooks so they have no social skills.
@@kathleenkirchoff9223 I taught at a school with a lot of LGBTQ+ kids. Many of our students came to our school after being relentlessly bullied and harassed at other schools. Needless to say, there was a lot of tension and bad feelings between the LGBTQ+ students and those who did not identify with that. I don't know that DEI programs would have been helpful in that situation, but I do know that living in a state where the law makers deliberately passed multiple laws restricting the activities of the LGBTQ+ community did not help make things better. The LGBTQ+ kids felt targeted and unheard, and those who supported the laws only got meaner and more bold in the way they bullied and harassed the LGBTQ+ community. Several of our students were sexually assaulted. One of them ended up being murdered by their own parent. Everyone complains about "woke" policies being the problem, but in my experience, the opposite is also true. When you announce that it's perfectly acceptable to be a bigot, and that you don't have to accept or acknowledge someone who is different from you, it results in terrible things happening.
Exactly! When society doesn’t value education, how can anyone expect students too. 😢
@@kathleenkirchoff9223 Writing things off as "woke" is a thought-stopper, signalling the end of meaningful conversation. That in combination with simply blaming technology does nothing to inspire confidence that you yourself have a well-rounded understanding of the socio-emotional issues you mention. Discriminatory policies that block discussion/acknowledgement of sensitive topics (like "reproductive health," or "race & racism," both topics I assume you're euphemistically referring to when you say "woke") do SO much more harm to students & society - because what better way to resolve all that confusion you're talking about than by legislating those topics away as thought crimes in the classroom, right? (That last part was sarcasm). Not a very productive addition to the conversation, Kathleen.
@@ollieq3150 Actually, I'm not sure that your reduction of Kathleen's position is very productive, either. Many people are experiencing or hearing (from sources other than Fox "News") that minority kids in the school system are being taught that the world they are growing up into is against them, and that their racial identities should be primary in their self-conceptions. Whites, women, and LGBTQ+ are meanwhile receiving their own special messages--allegedly. When ordinary citizens object to the racialization of every subject (for example); they are thought-blocked through accusations of support for "discriminatory policies that block discussion/acknowledgement of sensitive topics." I'm a liberal who grew up in a very conservative town, but I never met anyone who was "uncomfortable" discussing reproductive health, race & racism, or any of the other topics that come to mind through the current usage of the term "woke." Kathleen was not being euphemistic, by the way. She was merely using a cultural shorthand, and sure enough, you knew what she meant. Anyway, fairywingsonroses seemed to acknowledge that Kathleen's position has some merit, but that there nonetheless remains a clear place for expanding the national consciousness, including through the school system, regarding inclusion for all. THAT was an addition to the conversation that I could respect.
Glad to hear teachers saying that they stayed for the students--because there is a certain narrative being pushed elsewhere on social media that says that the students are the problem. For many of us, the students are the reason we STAY in the profession. What is the nature of the work that you do with teachers, @the private practice teacher?
I help teachers that need to leave the classroom but still love teaching to create, run, and market their own private teaching businesses. Teaching and learning don't have to be confined to schools - online, in-person, or otherwise.
A teacher is a person who can do anything they want. They are very special intelligent people!
Way too much of government budgets go to less valuable segments than schools (police budgets are usually the biggest line items for communities), but even further, way too much of the school budgets go to less valuable positions than teachers. Administrators, compliance costs, football fields, new buildings instead of maintaining and renovating the existing ones, and so on. The superintendent of the district I grew up in was a multimillionaire in 2007. Salary was like 250K or something asinine like that. People get wind of this crap and decline all millages or other tax increases "for the schools", which through "creative accounting" just replaces revenue instead of supplanting it, so that it can ultimately go back to the general fund - wasteful crap like advertising the town or even more fancy toys for the cops, or for the school district to waste it on everything but teachers. I vote against such tax increases too, until it is proven that the funds that the town and district has already is as well spent as possible.
I can't speak to the other budgets, but I definitely agree with how school budgets are spent. In my own district, I was shocked to see that nearly double was spent on K-12 curriculum and resources than on the salaries and benefits of the people who actually work with the students.
I started teaching with a M.Ed and taught for two years. I left and retrained, because of (1) low pay, (2) they wanted me to work evenings and weekends and (3) it had abusive working conditions. What do I mean? (1) the female teachers did not want to share the teacher's bathroom or the teacher's workroom with male teachers; (2) the administration was not supportive of the teachers; (3) I was often denied bathroom breaks and lunch breaks.
That IS abusive and way more common than people think. I’m sorry you went through that. Thank you for sharing.
Excellent observation.
As a former school board member, I can say that the biggest problem with teachers is their union. Paying based on longevity results in generally poor performance. Pay teachers based on measurable results and pay those getting the desired results well. That is called incentive. Make it easier to get rid of under-performing teachers. The whole profession would be uplifted. That is why charter schools work well. If the school doesn't perform, no one wants to go there and the school fails. Therefore they want teachers who perform. Most teachers I know in the charter school system are happier than they were in the public system.
Thank you for your comment and perspective. I absolutely agree with you re: unions and longevity vs merit based pay. It’s demoralizing for a lot of great teachers. I’ve worked in both great and not great public and private schools as well as talked with hundreds of teachers all over the U.S. A lot of the same issues exist in both but public and private schools do seem to have their own unique issues too.
That's absolutely correct! I taught for 10 years and retired early. There is an incredible lack of respect from most administrators, most parents, and most students. Got to the point I wasn't willing to put up with it anymore. If administration comes across a good teacher, they should do everything in their power to hold on to them.
Agreed!! I’m sorry you had to leave, but glad you were able to make the best choice for you.
Just retired after 26 years, and you are correct on all counts. Poor pay is a big problem but lack of respect from students, parents, and poor support from admin is a big factor. Many of the students in the USA have a bad work ethic and cannot control their emotions, while not respecting authority. Parents do not discipline their kids and do not push them in their academics. They need to start early in the elementary years and push their kids/help their kids with their studies. They must read with them and to them nightly and go over their math work together. There would be fewer problems in middle and high school if this took place in the early years.
Teachers in the USA are highly educated often with masters degrees but poorly paid and disrespected at all levels. What is worse is to have a principal who spent the minimum time in the real classroom and quickly moved to admin. The admin. should be made to spend two weeks a year as a sub in a classroom. One week must be in a Title 1 school economically struggling area.
I agree with you 💯 and love your idea re: principals having to sub. Thank you for taking the time to comment and share your perspective and ideas.
Teacher, elementary school here...20 plus years...system beyond broken. All I will say. Starts from very top. I will stay for a few more years then retire. I fear for our future, genuinely fear for our future education system. There won't be new teachers in the next 10 years because of people not wanting to be cussed at by children, objects thrown at them, punched or kicked. Yes, we deal with this. The school counties will always keep things like these actions quiet. I feel sad to be honest because when I started yes there were issues, but nothing like what we face today. It doesn't matter what county you work in either. It's the same it seems across the nation. Things need to change. Our Boards don't listen to teachers, maybe parent pressure/ pushing will.
I'm afraid too, and I agree with you 100%. I know of several admin who are covering and ignoring issues to make their stats look better - often in hopes of advancing their own careers and political ambitions at the expense of everyone they're supposed to be serving. I hope somebody starts to listen.
SAME with nurses!!!!
Long story short, left teaching after five years. Been working in a lab the last thirty years. I was so angry when I left teaching because I really wanted to be a teacher. Now, I consider it a blessing. I am so much happier not having to deal with all the drama all the time. Life is too short to spend it dealing with angry parents, kids who are mentally and physically lazy, and an unsupportive administration that is only interested in furthering their political careers. Yes, I am so glad it's not my problem anymore.
I can relate to that anger so much! It took me years to release it. I went back to school and started teaching in my 30’s bc it’s what I’ve always wanted to do. I think that’s why I found a way to do it my way as a self-employed teacher.
I’m so glad you found something that makes you happy too!
I agree with "BastiatiC" - from what I know and see Teachers are not allowed to teach. As with most Public Employees - Teachers/Police and Firemen and Military they are severely underpaid / over worked and not apricated for what they do. Because of politics, the woke community and Racism we have tied their hands and the basics of READING, WRITING AND ARITHMETIC has become less important and not Offending someone has caused teachers to find work / income elsewhere. I'm glad that myself and my children when to school when learning and discipline where the main focus of school and parents trusted teachers
This shouldn't be a secret or surprise to anyone. The talented people that can succeed will go elsewhere...and succeed. The people that can't will stay because they can't find work anywhere else.
You’re absolutely right. It shouldn’t be a shock. Thank you for your comment.
Amen! It could all be totally avoided.
public schools are lost
And frankly I don't blame them. They aren't paid nearly enough to risk their life to assault weapons just to teach kindergarten. 🙄
Your reasons for teachers leaving is spot on but you missed one. Many, like me, are also fired for doing our jobs and refusing to back down from holding students to a standard. Students aren't punished when they cuss out teachers or leave their rooms without permission, Admins expect teachers to let students redo assignments they were caught cheating on, and students (mostly girls) refuse to obey the dress code. I can't tell you how many students I dress coded for wearing tiny spandex gym shorts or tights so thin you could see their underwear through them. I even sent up a girl wearing a mesh shirt. All of them came back to class with no repercussion and wearing the same clothes.
25 years ago I'd send textbooks with black market cuss words to the office, they'd come back with the words beautifully white with White-Out, It was hilarious. Of course, I guess most schools today don't use books, problem solved!
THAT is an excellent point!! Thank you and I’m so sorry that happened to you!
@@Ryan-zv6xw Oh nowadays, the teachers and students all cuss and no one does anything about it. My niece and nephews are in high school. There is basically no dress code. And the kids say everyone cusses. Teachers included and no one does anything about it. It's awful.
And it's the parent's fault for not raising their children right. I work in a daycare with 3-5 years olds and they're already becoming terrible at that age!!!
They could do a lot to help, that’s for sure. Personally, I think technology and screens is a huge part of it. Educators, counselors, and pediatricians all know very well how screen time effects their developing brains. Too much screen time explains a lot of what we see - increased impulsivity, hostility, agression, irritability, depression. I’m really not sure why we don’t talk about this more.
My wife worked for the Leander ISD (Texas) as a teachers aid. She worked there for 17 years and her final salary was $11.54 per hour. She quit two years ago and doubled her salary. The Texas state gov could care less about teachers and education. But they want that property tax.
Also add on with the bright teachers. They are incredibly intelligent in figuring out new ways to better teach students so that they understand what they are supposed to be learning. Administrators on the other hand don't care about figuring out the best way to teach kids so that they actually learn something useful. All they care about are test grades so that their district can get more money, which leads to kids doing more tests which they already hate doing.
Yes!!! 🙌🏻👏🏻💯 And therein lies a huge part of the problem. Those same administrators are not required to know anything about pedagogy or child development. It’s insane to me that our educational decision makers so often have no knowledge or understanding of these fundamental concepts.
Thank you for your comment!
The situation in the US is remarkably bad for teachers & if it isn’t addressed soon, the damage to the students will only grow.
It doesn't make sense to stay in education when the pay is an insult, teachers are often required to purchase things for their classrooms out of their own money, and the horrific number of school shootings mean they could die on the job.
This is just the long version of "those who can, do; those who can't, teach" (with the addendum, "those who can't teach, administrate") That cliche doesn't mean that able people never prefer teaching, it recognized a longstanding reality that certain education systems (and our public system definitely qualifies) don't value ability and intelligence in employees. I quit teaching in 1995, I'm sure it's worse now than then but nothing I see in these videos is new. It's never been about pay scales, it's about not being supported in your care of the students and not having freedom to do your job to the best of your ability.
I’ve definitely worked in schools like that.
I literally HATE that slogan.
@@Standingupstrong993 Well, cliches are generally irritating, but they often clue us in to things we should pay attention to.
My kid is taking a class now using Adobe suite programs and she is realizing that her high school teacher that was supposed to teach them Photoshop was so unable to use the program himself that it would have been better if she'd never seen the program before than been taught error.
When I substitute taught at a middle school one year, the teacher had written a sample essay for the students to use as a model -- full of grammar errors, poorly written. If anyone in that class had been inclined to write well, her teaching would have fixed that.
It's super common, because schools don't weed out people who are poor at teaching or don't know their field. They weed out people who don't toe the line, or who try to raise standards, or who protest mistreatment of the kids.
It's something to be on guard against, not ignored.
those who can't teach... teach gym class
Very true. I could not endure what was going on in the schools, anymore. 24 years and it's over. I never walk into a classroom anymore. I do not want to hear about teaching, I had enough of it all. And guess what, I lived for teaching! It was my passion, it was my life!
Well I didn't knew of this crisis, but it wouldn't have been a crisis if the slackers were leaving. Education is in bad shape probably in most of the world unfortunately, so we are used to it being bad.
That’s an interesting point. I can share that I hear similar stories from teachers in Canada, Australia, and UK.
My old German teacher from middle school got a job driving public transit. So we’re coworkers now. I asked him why he stopped teaching and he said there were some kids that he “couldn’t reach”. I don’t know exactly what he meant by that, but I suspect he was being consistently disrespected by some punks that he couldn’t reason with. Of course the district isn’t going to do anything about that. He even gave me all his German books… It’s not until just now that I realize how sad that last part is.
It is sad. The decision to leave the classroom is a heartbreaking one. I'm glad he found someone to give his books too. I'm sure he is too.
I totally agree with ou- It is the talented and wonderful teachers who are leaving to be valued and make a lot more money.
A sad day when the people responsible for bringing up today’s youth are underpaid and under appreciated. Hopefully if enough stand up for themselves and say no more change may happen but that seems like a long ways away.
In my district, I didn't feel like I was badly paid, the kids were mostly decent, but I couldn't do the last year I had planned because of a horrible administration. The superintendent was there to make money, show his power and cover his butt.
I see it all the time. So sad. Our schools have become political launch pads.
I loved the kids, but I left High School teaching after 3 years because of the unliveable pay, stifling bureaucracy and teachers' union. That was back in 1981. The profession has gotten far worse and I have total respect for anyone who tries. My kids had some good ones, but that was partly because of where we lived and the fact that my kids went to Charter Schools. As for me, I switched careers, went to Architecture school at UCLA and retired 4 years ago.
I’m 67 years old and will be retiring in two months from a job I took ten years ago as an elementary school janitor (k-8). Two things I’m walking away with from this experience. I have a new respect for teachers. My advice to you if you are thinking about becoming a teacher is don’t. It isn’t worth the heartache. And my second is avoid sending your children to public schools if at all possible. They are destroying our children and our future.
Best wishes to you in your retirement.
! My mom taught over the 20 years, she just loved the kids and being a teacher and possibly would have stayed longer. Thankfully she met retirement requirements.
I'm glad too. I work with many teachers transitioning out of the classroom and into private practice teaching (ie. self-employed teaching). So many of us have been thanked by our family members for leaving unhealthy work environments. That surprised me, although it shouldn't have.
This is all by design. Same thing is happening in medicine, in science, in law enforcement… across the board really. This is the end of an empire and we are not principled enough to stop it because we have ideas in our minds that are wholly unnatural, like authority, currency, various religions, entertainment addictions, food/substance addictions, comfort addiction, beliefs of all sorts. Most adults are like children and can only muster responses to their world that resemble tantrums.
I can't argue, the evidence could suggest that.
I have been teaching for 30 years. I'm 63. I love my school. I love the job. I love the kids. I will continue to teach until I physically can't do it anymore. Its not all doom and gloom.
You’re right. There are some schools that are doing a great job supporting their teachers. Now, if only struggling schools would look to them as an example.
@@theprivatepracticeteacher I 100% agree. I doubt you are a supporter of school choice but to my mind that is part of the solution.
I agree. I’d also like to see teacher choice be a part of that too. But mainly, I believe that teachers must be recognized as the educational professionals they are before any meaningful and productive change can happen.
@@theprivatepracticeteacher What do you mean by, "teacher choice?"
I work with self-employed teachers. I’d like to see families be able to use some of the money allotted for “school choice” to be hire the self-employed teachers they’d like to have educate their children.
Generally happening in govt. as well.
In California at least, the teachers need more respect and more $ and more authority. And get the parents out of the picture.
I’ve worked with 2 teachers in California. You’re not wrong. We need parents involved in doing their jobs, so we can ours. Not the other way around.
My father taught as a seminarian in a PRISON. (His students wanted to stab each other with their pencils).
He worked his way up. He taught at an elementary school, got higher degrees, did research, got a position at a college, got grants abroad, published books, and eventually was renowned in his field having taught at a university.
But it was a long journey.
Having taught in prison and having taught in public school, prison is an easier environment. The inmates are more convinced they need your services, and they don't have their parents sabotaging their attitudes.
I've been in it for 6 years now after making a career change... while I don't necessarily hate it, I yearn for the opportunity to going back to process agrnt registration and commission requests.
The best and the brightest do not go into administration. That's where a large part of the problem lies.
I wish all of the teachers had a strong union like nyc.
I’m the opposite. Gave up my soul for nearly 30 years in corporate world but hated it. Got divorced, relocated, hit burn out, quit, and became a substitute teacher nearly three years ago. Yep, I have stinkers of a day once in a while, but getting students to think about their futures, sharing my experiences and failures, getting fist pumps in hallways, and getting wayward kids to give a damn is so much more rewarding than anything the jet set corporate gig ever offered me. But I see the toll along time teachers endure.
I'm a second-career professional too. I took a pay cut to become a teacher, but found it to be so much more rewarding. It's what I've always wanted to do. Sadly I had to leave to classroom, so I could be a better parent/wife/friend/ etc year-round. I miss the classroom but have able to continue to teach as a self-employed teacher. Someday I hope to go back which is why I put so much energy into advocating for teachers and raising awareness on educational issues. There's so much people outside of education don't know.
When we think that every child is the same, that is where the problem started. We put all levels of intelligence together and wonder why the system isn’t working. Nothing but frustration in the classroom.
Yes! And then we script it further restricting any creativity or responsiveness that teachers used to be able to bring to their classrooms.
Oh my goodness. That’s awful. I’m so sorry. Why isn’t teacher attrition part of how administrators are evaluated? I’m going to investigate how admin are evaluated because there are so many bad ones out there.
I’m right there with you with your rant. It’s unbelievable to me that there’s no minimum number of classroom teaching years in order to be an administrator. My non-education friends had no idea.
I've had admin who were never teachers. Never took a single developmental psych or methods course. Insane to me.
I have been teaching middle school special education for 8 years. The paperwork is soul crushing. 90 percent of what I do is driven by politicians and lawyers with no benefit to kids. I love teaching and my students and do all I can to keep up, but I don’t sweat a lot of the nit noid nonsense because if truth be told, they need me and there aren’t lines of people wanting my job. It’s time we use that to our advantage.
I’m so sorry. I think this is a space in which paras could be really helpful. I worked briefly as a para in an ESL room, I was able to be a tremendous help with her paperwork as well as provide support to all the team teachers. We need more quality paras to help with the non-teaching tasks do teachers can teach.
Yup. My new job about half the hours for more than twice the pay and I'm in no danger of injury and don't have to take the work home with me.
And then there's the respect....
I'm so happy for you. I was shocked by the respect I get as a self-employed teacher too!! Crazy!
So true. I was in the top five for my state’s TOTY award. I was TOTY twice, an award voted by my peers. I quit after being hit by a middle school student when the admin blamed me for turning it in since it wasn’t on camera. We could only turn in things that were caught on camera, a fact the students found out.
Wow! That's insane. I'm so sorry.
I started late in teaching and retired in 2020 as COVID broke. I taught middle school and high school. There is a shortage of teachers today, because they leave the profession within a few years of starting. When I started teaching nearly 25 years ago most teachers I worked with taught until full retirement. By the time I retired, many teachers were leaving with 10 years or less of teaching experience. Unless school administrations start really listening to the.concerns of teachers and earnestly working to address those concerns, the bleed will continue and there will always be a teacher shortage,!
Yes!!! This is exactly it!
The same dynamics are at work in the political establishment, law enforcement, the medical establishment, the military, and the corporate world. A spirit is rising in the West that bodes ill will for this society. It’s only going toget crazier. Pray for your grandchildren.
My son is a teacher. They are getting so many immigrants that are illiterate in their own language. Can’t speak English at all. But they have to pass them. If they show up to class they get a barely passing grade. There are bright spots. An example is one student from Honduras. He’s here illegally. But he’s motivated. He wants to succeed. Works hard. Studies hard. Makes excellent grades. But that is the rare exception. It’s very very frustrating for him. If they are going to put these kids in the school system, there has to be another way to give them a shot at succeeding.
That’s an excellent point. Thank you for sharing.
The lack of views says everything you need to know.
PREACH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! SPOT ON!!!!!!!💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯
Well said!!!!
I cannot imagine how frustrating and discouraging it would have to be for a teacher going to work everyday knowing that if any sort of issue came up with either a student or a parent, that neither the administrators nor the school board is going to have their back.
These days, if I were a teacher, I would wear a body cam to work, because if it comes down to taking the teacher's word vs. a student or parent, the powers that be in the district will side against the teacher every time.
So many teachers want them! So many teachers I know asked if they would leave the COVID cameras in their rooms. It would help with so much. Observations would be less disruptive - admin could just virtually hop into any classroom at any time. Can imagine the effect it could have on behaviors if everything was recorded?
Yes that’s what happened in Early Childcare here, the best left, I have nobody to refer enquiries to. 🇦🇺
Thanks for sharing. It’s so sad. 😞