Teacher shortages: Why educators are leaving the profession in droves | USA TODAY
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- Опубліковано 20 гру 2022
- With teacher shortages affecting schools nationwide, educators share how pay, parents, politics and the pandemic have led some to leave the profession.
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There is no national teacher shortage. Many classrooms have all the educators they need and in some cases never had vacancies to begin with.
Yet shortages in many others persist. Staffing levels can vary significantly by state, district, school, subject and grade level.
The National Center for Education Statistics has been regularly surveying a nationally representative sample of schools about various topics, including staff vacancies, in the COVID-19 era. According to its latest School Pulse Panel survey, from October, nearly half (45%) of public schools have at least one vacant teaching position, about the same rate as when the survey was conducted in January. The average number of vacancies per school, however, dropped from slightly more than three in June to two this October.
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Out of control kids, parents who don't hold them accountable, and blaming the teachers for everything
Im not surprised
That’s why I walked out; toxic/narcissistic parent emboldened by the school. That along with disrespectful kids, workload, low pay…all of it. Not sustainable…
All teachers should quit and actively discourage anyone from becoming a teacher!
@@andrewlayton6728 no lazy parents who shouldn’t of had kids in the first place. A lot of the kids nowadays are terrible even the ones with good parents. The kids just choose to act out
Used to have a great relationship with parents. Honestly it was once wonderful. I was treated almost like family. Parents used to love the teachers, this really changed to an adversarial relationship. The teachers are always wrong and children are always right. They get away with everything because mom doesn't hold them accountable (I was literally told "Jonny would never do this." They will outright tell you you lied. I don't know how there is any control in classrooms anymore because one kid can make your life miserable.
There is NOT ENOUGH SAID on national tv about how horrible some kids are and how their parents suck.
I quit teaching after 5+ years. I continuously feel anger bursting out that I have to contain when I think of that principal and how she treated me. This was in LAUSD, Los Angeles. What I hated the most, was that I couldn't report her to the administration higher ups because of fear of retaliation. In a country where recommendations mean a lot, employees need to suck up no matter how unethical or cruel their supervisors might be. That is the REAL problem. The system puts way to much power on principals and they puts impossible expectations on teachers.
I was treated horribly by a principal as well. I filed a grievance against her. I was able to get out of my contract late in the summer without my certification being touched.
Former Philadelphia teacher here. I was at a high school this year where the Principal, women with a PhD, treated me like dirt everytime she saw me. When I finally confronted her to ask why she kept staring like that (all hateful & creepy) she seethe, "You and your red hair" she was also a total racist whose curriculum was 9th grade a pseudo crime/porn book & a class on "White people" that stressed that all.white people.are rich. I kid you not. It was shocking they could do that. No Asians in the school and as for the handful of Hispanic kids, no one seemed to care if they understood what was going on in the class. Violent kids that the administration supported. Philadelphia schools are dangerous.
Same here. I had two principals who were in the job solely to order teachers around and talk to us like dirt. I stuck it our for the school year. Those first two weeks after semester’s end, I slept for 12 hours a day and cried daily. It was all the stress finally coming out.
LAUSD is probably the most bloated, corrupt, and pathetic district in USA. California is bloated and corrupt as well. Everything is connected. I am not surprised at seeing how many thousands of people have left. I am not surprised at all about shortage of teachers. This education system needs a complete overhaul starting with the unions, politicians, and down to the administrators. We all know that won't happen, so California's failure will continue until the very end.
Many are going to hell. Principals are evil demons.
I taught for a few years and would never in my life walk back into a K-12 classroom. It's not even a compensation issue. It's the stress, disrespect, and insufficient resources to do our jobs. Just no, no, no. And the education that I received from a teaching college was a joke.
I’m in the process of becoming a teacher and I don’t want this to happen to me 🥹
@@RickyandGandi apply to districts that pay competitively! it doesn't entirely fix the other problems but at least you're paid more, even if you might have to commute. and often times districts that pay well tend to have more kids that care about school, at least in my experience. but that could very well be a "my area" thing.
How many years did you teach?
@@RickyandGandi it’s overwhelming and you have to set a no nonsense tone from the very beginning of the year.
@@RickyandGandi The likelihood of it not happening is slim to none. Truly. it gets worse every year in the urban setting. Kids are getting worse, and their parents are not stepping up to being parents. If you can do something else, do it.
I left 3 years ago and i'm so glad i did. the system is so broken and needs to be changed on the cultural level. Americans don't value education.
What career are you in now?
How long did you stay?
You've struck the core of the issue. Everyone takes a solid education for granted. School is just a stepping stone to get a job, that's how they see it. Sadly.
The kids are too damn bad, and their parents are even worse.
Parents treat school as a babysitter.
Couldn’t have said it better
I left teaching. It is unsustainable as a profession, too much personal, financial and now adding the threat to personal safety all for low wage. I entered the tech sector for much higher pay and safer conditions.
Ditto for cops!
How’d you get into tech. I don’t want to do coding.
The culture of respect in schools need to be brought back. Respect from the kids and administrators. Higher pay and support when it comes to dealing with behavioral issues.
Teachers make more money than most.
@@joes4990 who’s most? what a dumb, short sighted comment. Expected from people who don’t value education though.
@@joes4990 most what? Beggars?
Children cannot learn in an atmosphere of pure chaos. There is no respect for teachers and no will to learn. The method of teaching is outdated, and it needs to be brought into the current times. Progressive styles of learning have continuously been rejected, pay is shameful, teachers are overworked, and classrooms have become a battlefield with no support. Government intervention and interference in some states has restricted materials to the point of being concerning, and they wonder why there is a teacher shortage. Resolve these issues, and maybe you will have a return of students that are now being home schooled and teachers who love to teach.
@@joes4990 Nice April Fool’s joke. 😂😂😂
A guy once told me that teachers only work 185 days a year. I said, and you only sit at a desk. You don't have to work with 150 teenagers a day.
Teaching was once a noble profession when a teachers role of reading, writing and arithmetic was clearly defined. Unlike other professions with clear duties teachers are expected to wear whatever hats they’re told to wear or quit if they don’t like it. Sickening.
Teaching is a dying profession. It’s really sad what it has become. Many teachers say that most of the time is spent on testing. I had a teacher about year ago tell me I came into this profession to teach not to be a tester/ babysitter. Very sad what it has become.
Exactly. Teaching isn't about teaching anymore. It is about how to be politically correct, and whether or not students can pass an end of the year test to make their quota of "excellence". Progressive styles of teaching and materials that suit our times are rejected, and interference of government into the classroom has become tyrannical. There is no respect or value anymore for the institution of learning which is leading to its downfall.
We learn more by going places. But I agree that teaching is a dying profession. Teachers need to be respected and paid better for what they do, give them a chance to unwind and stop treating them like concentration campers. Teachers DESERVE love and support, especially the good ones.
I’m quitting after 4 years. These students are violent, don’t care about their edu in most cases, parents are never held accountable, I’m not paid enough and management is the worst
Put politicians in classrooms for a few years and watch things change. As a veteran teacher, I have 46 days to go and I’m out. The fight is not worth it.
The disiintegration of family life, the high divorce rate, men rejecting fatherhood, the high rate of illegitimacy means too many parents are using the schools as daycare centers. As one teacher put it, "Children should be sent to school to be educated, not raised."
No none of that is the problem. Men in the society are the problem. Men are not supposed to be around, not supposed to exist in society. That’s why there’s alway one disease, disaster, crisis, war,conflict after another.
No one would believe the world wasn’t made to have endless problems , that peace and happiness was supposed to reign 24/7. But it is.
I'm a substitute teacher and this is what I see in the classrooms...all these factors have played a role...and to think, I almost went into the teaching profession but went into nursing instead....sure glad I made the right decision!!
Men rejecting fatherhood. Notice women are not rejecting motherhood as in abandoning their children. Notice that. We KNOW women have the child rearing instincts, That tells me that men do NOT. That means women were supposed to raise kids WITH other women, not MEN.
Yes. And worse, the schools won't allow teachers to use the tools that would actually enforce discipline, make the classroom safe, and even help the difficult kids to learn. At my school, a kid stalked a girl home for two weeks and then put her in the hospital on the way back from lunch. The school suspended him for two days for fighting (that isn't "fighting"), and gave him a bunch of special treatment when he got back. He was the most disrespectful student I've ever had and physically threatened me on multiple occasions, one of which involved him throwing water all over me while I was teaching, and the school did nothing but reward him. He hit another kid, and they said the other kid had provoked him. But he was allowed to just stay, making students and staff alike unsafe and never facing consequences. That's the kind of things teachers deal with and that's why I will never go back to the classroom.
then stop trying to be the parent and simply teach academics
Speaking as an educator. The students are bad as ever, no ability to retain so students misbehave and act out all day with no consequences. The office is a big joke they take them and bring them back the parents are crazy just to name a few!
factss
underpayed, underappreciated & ridiculed by parents & "the system" .... what do we expect to happen?
Reality is in most places you can’t raise a family on a teacher’s income. Pensions are not portable and are woefully inefficient. And 15 states are WEP/GPO states where teachers’ social security is reduced as well as that of their peers. I did 6 years of college and made $27000 gross with a masters degree the first year of teaching.
Try raising a family of a 5 on 12 an hour
@jennifer do the math, its almost the same. But shes having to pay off a master degree school loan because its requested in many districts.
Teachers had to do reduced or free lunches for their kids (a whole other issue of what is fed to kids and having to buy it) I didn't have kids so I was lucky.
@jenniferwilliams5478 why 5?
I’m a student. If you go to a classroom and ask what students wanna be. At least 4 elementary kids will say teacher. But no high schooler will. People realize that teaching is not a good job. Dealing with shit kids, for subpar pay. I wouldn’t do that job
I lucked out, I have one class where the kids are so good that the one bad kid left.
But I'm still considering leaving. I literally can't afford to be a teacher. I want a house and can't even be considered for these inflated mortgages
Could you please elaborate some more on this? I am a teacher and this sounds like one of my fantasies coming true!!!
I can’t stand it when I see ex-teachers cry for leaving. It’s like getting a commuted sentence. Be happy you were able to got the hell out. I’ve told both my daughters to never, under any circumstances, become a teacher. I have 6-7 more years before I can retire “early” with medical and a little less than 2/3 of my full pension, after 30-31 years of teaching at 56-57 yo. Teachers need to get their full pension after 20 yrs like cops and firefighters bc we go thru more trauma than they do. former cops who went into teaching have said that teaching is much more stressful than any situation they were ever in as a cop! 😱👀☠️
most uncompensated awful job ever....too much is expected for too little
A good perspective. Leaving teaching was one of the best decisions I ever made. I was horribly depressed afterward, feeling like I failed and had lost something. In reality, it just put me in a position to get a job that's ACTUALLY fulfilling and where I'm ACTUALLY appreciated. Best thing that ever happened to me.
I will gut it out to age 60 (3yrs to go) 25 years on the job. I will keep working in "retirement" No worries
Yes, teaching is such a burnout job that we should be able to retire after 20 years. One benefit we should have is one full year of a paid sabbatical to use as you choose. It could be in increments of months or the whole year at once. This along with pay, less work load, correcting student behavior, etc. would need to change immediately.
I’ve found a nice balance over the years. I work as a junior professor of linguistics and TESOL at a community college part-time and as a city bus driver 3/4 time with full benefits and some nice retirement. Full-time as a public school teacher can be quite a disaster these days.
In order to get more teachers / substitute teachers into the classroom they need to raise their salary to, or above the national average maybe, they will get more people interested in the teaching profession!
They need to fix the scales too. Teachers should get raises EVERY year, not just after 5, 10 or 15 years
@@Jay-uq5bf yes, absolutely I agree.
@@Jay-uq5bf where do you teach? I’m in New England where you get usually about 3% per year.
Not just money... it is the lack of respect and the students are violent these days. Back in my day, schools were places of privilege. You had to earn it. It wasn't for everyone. Now it is treated like a dumpster bin. Clean the classrooms of ill-tempered, ill-behaved kids. Only allow those who want to learn inside. The rest stick into juvi or institutions. After three referrals, OUT!!! No school for you, straight to training facility, pick up a trade and be a wage slave. Those who stay in school will become doctors, lawyers, scientists, technicians, etc.
@@LadyCoyKoi That is true other factors plays a role in educators leaving the teaching profession violence, shooting, bullying etc.
The no child left behind act ruined teaching
I worked with an amazing 30+ year teacher who said the same thing, that NCLB changed everything for the worse. I started teaching in 2015. I want to learn more about the specifics and implications of No Child Left Behind.
Yes and no. What made worse are the new age parents that spoil their kids and have entitlement issues. Parents who trash talk about education and teachers... and what the kids do? Misbehave in class, throw things, act out inappropriately. NCLB did NONE of that... that is parents failing at parenting, teaching discipline, accountability and responsibility to their kids and making sure their kids are well mannered and know how to f^
I never fully understood No Child Left Behind. Was it were school's lowered their standards right down that all a student had to do was write their name and date on a piece of paper and it was considered a pass?
This!
Children are not held back in a grade to catch up. Every child needs to move on to the next grade regardless. To hold a student back, a parent has to jump through hoops. Hence, a 5 grader can only read at a kindergarten level. Common core standards made it even worse. Got to keep teaching standards and be on pace with curriculum even though students are way behind.
Don't forget all the retiring baby-boom teachers, and younger people don't seem eager to become teachers.
I am a baby boomer English teacher - desperate for retirement. Can't stand my job now. Don't go into teaching.
I'm a boomer. I'm retired. it's not young people's fault they don't want to go in. When I started it was fun and rewarding. I was respected, even loved by parents of the kids I worked with.. It's so toxic now, I fully understand why they don't want to go into it. I would not under current circumstances.
It’s pay. Better pay equals better teachers. And get rid of having a Masters degree as a requirement. So many teachers are burned out before they even start. In Arizona starting pay for a new teacher is 25k. It’s absurd. No one can live on that. And they put so much of their own money into their classrooms. Get yelled at by administrators and parents. As much money we spend of defense and technology and oil we should spend on education.
25K for a fulltime teaching job? What a joke!
😮😮25k
Starting teacher salary for NSW, Australia : US$55,000. So why can’t the richest country in the world afford to at least match this?
Here in the Philippines, we teachers also deal with overwork and underpay. Worst, we have parents and children who are brats.
Its just sad. Policy makers have no idea what teachers do.
In the Philippines as well. I quit last year. The best thing that happened. I stayed for 2 years but that was enough. Having to work as a teacher and administrative assistant cause we are understaffed made me quit. So toxic and it made me crazy now I have this burst angry behavior that started like 6 months after I was hired and my mother noticed it first. 😢
I'm perfectly content in my job now and just reading these comments still gets my blood boiling, thinking about how teachers are treated. You don't get a life, every hobby and relationship i have got put on hold. It's just crippling stress and desperation, and this weird self- delusion that that's ok. It's not. Every teacher in this country (and from what I've heard, some others too) should get out NOW. Life doesn't have to be what it is when you're teaching.
I have been teaching for almost thirty years. My kids are great. My admin is fine. My parents are kind. I will keep teaching until I can't get up anymore.
I think many teachers put too much of their life into it. Its a job. Do your best, but don't kill yourself. You can't save the world.
I don't think these teachers should sacrifice their personal lives for their profession even if they see it as their calling.
people (parents) won't respect you if they think you make less than them, it's almost an unconscious belief understood by seeing how the government and system has deemed that teachers are worth less than other professionals when it comes to compensation. also, this might sound unrealistic but in addition to increasing pay, i really think having a long term goal of more school counselors at the elementary level could help with the respect piece. in my district elementary counselors do lessons on respect, self control, teamwork, coping skills, making good choices, etc in classrooms/ group counseling/ one on one counseling. they're like specialized teachers but specialized in social emotional learning and doing what (quite frankly) a lot of parents don't care to do. parents who don't care about teaching feelings (or whatever that sign said) don't realize learning about feelings is how you create a respectful society that understands WHY it's doing what its doing. how do we get kids to care about the choices they make every day? if respect through fear was the goal of the past, respect through emotional intelligence should be the goal now. it doesn't take the burden off the teachers entirely but at least if more kids learn those things in elementary they can carry them forward as they get older and create a better student culture in the district over time, and honestly just be better humans.
It's unfortunate that kids weponize their parents and record teacher "slipping" a joke or breaking character.
It won get better until they treat people better and show some humanity
I worked in winter park high school and I was raising other ppls kids nope
in florida or colorado?
My brother who has an educator for 30 years said even kindergarten girls for beating each other up in class it was unacceptable but they did nothing about it
Teachers aren’t often allowed to teach. They have to use scripted curricula or unit plans written by district departments, and none of them know the kids as good as the teachers. Parents make excuses. Many teachers are more experienced than administrators, so the admin feel a power struggle. Teachers spend their own money time and time again. Behavior is off the chain!
Things changed with No Child Left Behind!!!
Teaching is not for everyone, at least long-term.
It really is a calling.
I left in 2022 after 20+ years in the classroom, and about 30 years of working with kids.
I left because I felt like my effectiveness was not where I wanted it to be. I left with my mind and health intact.
I loved my first-grade peeps. I had a superhero class, and I miss seeing them terribly.
But, it was time to go.
This is me - almost 20 very successful years but I want to go out on a high not a shell of my former self. Almost there… I’ll be 45 so need to find another way to make money. Best wishes to you 😊
@@AprendeInglesConStephen You, too. I am working on my skills resume- rewriting all the things I did as a teacher into a non-educational form.
The good thing is, I have many and varied skills that can be transferred over to a new position.
Teachers do a lot of different things. 😊
America once a melting pot is now just the pot (i.e., the toilet). Yes, I was a physics professor.
I have been teaching for 14 years... last 12 months.. I've questioned it.
The only way to stop the teacher shortage is pay them more. Why do the adminstrators get paid more when they do absolutely nothing but sit back and coordinate the curriculum but they never do the work.
and what is the school board doing about out of whack students? NOTHING.
and what are the school administrators doing about it? NOTHING.
What can parents or any concerned citizens do about it? My wife has been a teacher for nearly 30 years (yes, with MS Degree). She says the problem with schools is (among other things) that the SCHOOL BOARDS AND ADMINISTRATORS refuse to have and enforce even minimal, much less reasonable, discipline policies. The solution is to elect school boards that set discipline as a top priority, and monitor them, and insist that they hire school administrators who understand that discipline is a top priority, without which education cannot occur. IF you want to make things better for everyone, run for election to your school board. Get like minded people to run also. You CAN get elected and fix this mess. You can then see to it that policies that end the chaos are implemented and that school administrators DO THEIR JOBS. Then the teachers would be supported and backed up when they discipline disruptive students. Parents would again support and backup the teachers. Then the chaos would END. Schools would again be SANE asylums, as they were when I grew up. NEVER chaotic. No attacks on other students (ok, sure, there was the rare fight, more like a scuffle, but only between 2 students, and NOT knock down drag outs), but there was NEVER an attack on a teacher. Ancient history, I guess. I graduated HS in 1964.
So true!
Tired of getting blamed for everything and not being given anything to fix it with.
The teaching profession has more problems than those voiced in this video because public education standards have been deteriorating for at least a couple decades. The US used to be in at least the top 10 for academic achievement based upon international test scores. Over the past 20-30 yrs the US has dropped to about 28th. It's clear evidence that change started in the 1990s when conservative Republicans took over Congress and their mindset has chosen the path for public education ever since. One thing they did was pushing for national privatization of public education with school vouchers and similar tactics to financially undermine public education. And of course the Supreme Court has ruled in favor. When I was in school way back when, there were very strict laws across the country concerning the use of public funds for private education. If families chose to send their kids to a private school they had to pay the tuition out of pocket. And private schools were and still are free to 'select' the students they accept and have a reputation to taking in some of the highest achievers that make their results look better than public schools. On top of that, even after receiving their share of public funds for private education they were free to charge even more for their services. Another problem is private schools run on the profit motive whereas public schools are strictly funded by tax dollars. And of course most parents are always hollering about paying too much taxes. I won't even detail how unsafe schools have become in the past 30 + yrs. That's a more complicated problem but it basically boils down to parents and culture itself subjecting the young to a constant barrage of violent entertainment. I did some research a couple or so yrs back comparing school shooting for each decade since the 1960s. In every decade since school shootings have virtually doubled up to the turn of the century. And that's because Americans love consuming gun and gory entertainment. Yet they don't blame themselves when such incidences occur. When I was in school if I spoke back to a teacher I was not only disciplined in school but when I got home I was disciplined there as well. A lot of parents these days think their kids are perfect little angels. Then there are is the poor administration many school districts have. An extended family member of mine graduated from university summa cum laude [top of the class] and immediately got a job teaching at an out of state high school and taught there for 2 or 3 yrs [can't remember at the moment]. But when she transferred to a closer to home school district the personal directer had some stupid grudge against her and when it came time to renew her contract they told her they no longer had a position for her even though her students did well and they liked her. She later left teaching and got a better paying job at a local university. So there are all kinds of problems with public schools many not of their own creation.
isn't this cuz common core
I'd even add...there was a motive for conservatives to undermine public education since the 1990s. A large cohort of conservatives [the conservative movement started in the southern states] are christians and/or evangelicals. There was a decade long campaign to paint pubic education in a dark light in order to undermine the public trust. The motive behind that is what we now see in which taxpayer revenue is being used for individual religious education when years ago that was an out of pocket cost to individuals. That revenue drains and undermines public education even more. The whole goal was to get taxpayers to pay for religious educations, further undermining the wall between church and state. At the moment America is headed in the direction of a theocracy and if one asks an evangelical they are convinced the United States was purposely organized as a christian nation. That propaganda has to be passed on to younger generations to ensure at some point in American history it actually becomes a christian nation.
It’s the behavior…period.
Forget about the parents all being so rotten and the kids being rebellious. The real problem is quit simple: SOCIAL PROMOTION. Kids of below average intelligence who cannot pass exams need to be assigned to manual skills programs beginning in the 7th grade and then sent to vocational trades programs beginning no later than the 10th grade. They are not capable of complying with any sort of college preparatory academic program and it is ridiculous to try to force them to do that which they are incapable of handling. Furthermore, the teachers in these middle school manual arts programs should be certified in industrial arts and not elementary education or academic subjects. And then finally, those ultimately assigned to trade schools at the high school level should be taught by journeymen master tradespeople who are mostly men. You can’t take adolescent boys in particular with low IQs and expect them to be responsive to these effete liberal arts majors that high school faculties are typically composed of. By forcing these kids to persist in inappropriate academic programs all you’re doing is punishing them and teaching them to be losers.
I agree with this
@@sadenni A further problem is that teachers currently get assigned many kids who require tutoring but the tutoring load is too high, since traditionally special education tutors worked with very small groups of perhaps four or five kids, and not 20-30 kids like you get in a conventional classroom. And there’s nothing like kids who continually say “I don’t get it” because for instance they never really learned any arithmetic to defeat even the most well intentioned naive idealists coming out of schools of education.
I have been teaching for almost thirty years. My kids are great. My admin is fine. My parents are kind. I will keep teaching until I can't get up anymore.
I think many teachers put too much of their life into it. Its a job. Do your best, but don't kill yourself. You can't save the world.
Teachers ARE heroes especially the ones like in this video who obviously are good people.
I occasionally do service calls at high schools…. Unbelievable.
It’s Literally easy to gain access to a Prison than a school.
Unless you are a first grader with a gun
I have a friend from middle school who now works as a teacher, and they've been thinking about quitting. If they do I wish them the best.
Your point about 'lack of autonomy' is important! James
I retired around the age of 65. If I had been happy I would have stayed for a few more years (actually stayed till the end of the year to keep my class of middle school disabled students from having subs, because there weren't so many). Honestly loved being a teacher when I started in the 1980s-- it was fun, I had lots of freedom, meetings were essential only, admin. was not always on me and would try to help if things came up, paperwork was doable, and parents weren't defensive about their child's behavior. When I left things were completely different, if not the reverse. The worst things were the critical and almost antagonistic behavior of admin and parents towards teachers. Parents would literally tell you that "no, little Jonny did not do x, when he did." I don't want to go back to paddling kids, I think it's evil, but some kind of consequence would be beneficial and denial is wrong. The other thing , over the years put thousands of dollars into my classrooms. It was just either expected or too bad you don't have anything in your room. This was an excellent report about what's wrong with schools today. I like the re-branding of so-called "teacher burn-out". Teachers are the only profession that is treated shoddily like this. One thing not mentioned, the Union had to spend practically full time in one school I worked at for all the complaints of just downright unfair treatment by admin. But I also recognize there admins work in the same system and also aren't treated well.
Thank you for pointing out what a bad idea paddling is. It opens the door for not only physical abuse, but s*xual and emotional abuse. Kids of color are also known to be targeted more. I’ve heard ugly stories.
That being said, it’s so bizarre to me that teachers can’t even give out a simple scolding without getting into trouble. Kids need boundaries and if they aren’t getting it at home they’re definitely going to act out in school.
Thank you so much for your dedication to future generations. Be well dear educators. Stay strong.
"Educators" are not leaving...they are in their Offices, safe from the real world. TEACHERS...who do the Actual WORK ...are the ones leaving.
theres no teacher shortage;pay teachers more and have students respect them more
There ARE teachers out there who absolutely have a love for teaching. Unfortunately, their profession is a tsunami of issues that need to be resolved. It is not simply a raise in pay, although how much you pay for something shows exactly how much value it has. Teachers also have no support, respect, or freedom to teach valuable subjects anymore. Current laws have taken power away from parents, and kids run wild because of it. In a society t Dolly Parton who is as American as apple pie and ban books that have been and are a part of our culture's history, what then do they expect.
I quit after my first year. I knew that it would not be an easy job and I was the type that was passionate about moulding young minds. But the sad truth is that we as teachers don't have a voice. Nevermind everything you're doing right, people only see the bad. I did not receive the proper support I needed from my fellow teachers and was instead made fun of for struggling, as well as being seen as unfit. My HOD went out of her way to make my life hard and said in front of other teachers that "I had to grow a pair". That's the answer I got when I said that I can't controll my class no matter what I try. And in between all the chaos we have to teach, assesss and get results in.That's not why I became a teacher. I wasted 4 years of my life studying for a dead profession
You want to fix the issues.
Pay teachers more so we don’t need second jobs to make ends meet.
Hold parents responsible for the actions of their children.
Hold students responsible for their actions.
Raise the expectations! If you continue to lower the bar we will never recover.
Teaching used to be a noble profession. But nobility doesn't pay the bills. In particular red states, teacher pay is subpar. Factor in disrespectful parents, less support from admin, why would you consider Teaching? It's a sad state of affairs for a society that can't find teachers
I’m looking at a bunch of blue states and cities, and their schools and teachers are in terrible conditions, but keep playing the political game🙄
@TylerD448 look at the upscale blue areas. Plenty of those. And certainly not all red states are equally bad either. But actually I would avoid K12 altogether
@@MrMath2001 maybe stop playing the political game of blaming one party and start blaming everyone as a whole, Education is slowly getting worse and worse and pointing fingers isn’t going to do anything.
@TylerD448 so my advice to you: become a teacher and make a difference! Bye
@@MrMath2001 I can see I touched a nerve with you. Democrats are not as marvelous as you may think, all politicians are the same, ask yourself if the Democrats are really for education why are there cities and states so bad? And I’m not saying teaching is easy but I’m saying that you kept pointing fingers at one party
You can bet there will be better PR. But long term it won't help. The truth is out.
It's not just the pay. Or the disrespect/bad behavior from students and parents. It's the fact that a school shooting can happen any day at any time. Teachers are afraid for their lives. America has the highest amount of school shootings than any other country.
I was already stressed. COVId did me in. I retired 7 years earlier than I had planned, but I just couldn’t do it anymore. I miss the kids and my colleagues. I miss the routine, but I just can’t go back. Teachers were applauded during the pandemic and now, we’re disrespected again. Our administration did whatever they could to make their lives simpler regardless of the cost to us, the teachers. They hide in their offices and make sweeping decisions without any knowledge or our input. Raising salaries will help, somewhat. It won’t be enough. Teachers need to be respected. Parents need to be held accountable. I absolutely hated the Danielson rubric for teachers. It was so degrading and didn’t paint an accurate picture of what was going on. Some teachers had special plans they kept in reserve for their pop in observations. I feel my blood pressure mounting as I write this. It’s a noble, ancient profession. It’s time to respect teachers.
I had a job interview to teach and they didn't state that it was to teach children. Then they went on to ask what I would do if I came across combative children? I knew then that they are having problems getting teachers to deal with these bad kids. Above all, the pay was the same as someone who works in a warehouse... If these are the incentives then no wonder teachers are leaving the profession.
As a teacher for 15 years here are a few of the problems. Disrespectful students & parents, too many administrators who do nothing to support teachers, they also don’t teach & take huge paychecks. Crappy materials, terrible benefits. Barely any protection at all from the idiots that do menacing harm to innocent people in schools. I can’t afford the median cost of housing in ANY city or town within a 30 mile radius of where I work. I live in one of the top 20 populated cities in the US. Anyone who says we should just get another job, or we get summers off, etc. has no clue what they’re talking about. I have a part time job as well. In 20-30 years our society will greatly suffer due to the the terrible education system that we as people continue to allow.
Students attack us from pre school.
I'm the author of EIGHT DAYS IN AN INNER CITY SCHOOL. Out of control OCCUPATIONAL LICENSING has ran more teachers out of teaching than anything else
Two of the most essential jobs in our society that of a teacher and that of police’s officers are no longer appreciated. It’s just a matter of time before teacher will have to put on body cameras to protect themselves from frivolous law suits from undisciplined parents and children. America is in serious decline.
Just remember, these out-of-control, entitled, violent children are the next generation of parents. It's not going to get better anytime soon unless something radical happens.
I m retired USA army, and I worked 15 years after the army in the Financial services, many times I said I hate my job, but bills had to be paid I wanted a military pension, welcome to the club of all the people who hate their job. cry me a river
God bless all the teachers 🌹❤️
charter schools are hotbeds of financial impropriety and questionable practices BUT they have the huge advantage of being able to kick out students with disruptive behavior and/or chronic absenteeism.
This is heartbreaking. I taught for thirty years and two months, and retired sooner than I intended to because the local school board in my county is so very awful. Four out of the five board members, for the last several years, have been completely unqualified and ignorant men with no respect for education or for teachers, and with their own extreme right-wing political agenda. Two of them also have personal vendettas against some of the most outstanding principals and teachers in our system - one principal in particular who expected this one board member's high school child to follow the same rules as the rest of the student population with regard to keeping his grades up to be eligible to play on the school's baseball team. That principal, as well as many other quality principals and teachers, have left our system to work in neighboring counties where the work environment is better. The pathetic thing is that everybody in our community knows about this board member, and knows why he had it in for that principal; and yet they voted him back onto the board again anyway. His platform when he was running for the school board...his ONLY platform...was that he would "protect" our kids from CRT. These people don't even know what CRT is! It is so frustrating and demoralizing to see a school system that I attended myself as a child, and to which I gave so many years of my working life, deteriorate the way ours is doing. We have teacher shortages now like everyone else, and in some positions have unqualified or under-qualified people because good teachers are leaving in droves...both the profession at large and our school system in particular. It's a real mess.
GOP leaders and parents have greatly increased attacking innocent teachers. I can see why they don’t want to stay.
Parents that verbally attacked me we definitely not part of the GOP. I taught near Detroit.
The parents and kids who attack me are literally all black so are they in the GOP
@@charleshevey5471 And your grammar shows you are part of the *uneducated" Dmfp loves.
GOP gotta get that pay increase from doing nothing somehow. Even though they’re taking it from teachers.
@@charleshevey5471 US government in general is terrible
Why would anyone want to teach at a public school when there are students and teachers at risk of getting beaten by delinquent students?
You cannot be an educator and breadwinner.
There isn't a teacher shortage. There is a shortage of teaching jobs that are willing to pay a livable salary and that give support to teaches. And that help teaches deal with difficult children.
You should send note to him with the students saying if their parent, if their parents wanna be a teacher, go to this website and sign up or go to this college website would be become
As a kid I can say this is what happens when our education is just a joke and don’t learn shit.
According to you, where is the problem of all this?
Schools will have to change. The whole system will need to change. Probably going to need to be shut down or fail before that happens. If you are not being valued get out of there. Return when our population figures out if we value education and are willing to vote for supporting it. Take your skills outside of the US.
My mom is a teacher and is literally struggling financially. Teachers in my GOP led state are falling into poverty and a lot of the nicities I enjoyed throughout my life prior to my state being captured have been waning. This is the first Christmas where I get a lump sum to spend and that’s all, they used to be much bigger but my mom doesn’t have the money anymore because she has to go into debt to stay above water since her boss won’t pay her anywhere near enough to survive. I think my mom either moving to another country that pays their teachers much better or going into another occupation such as insurance would be much better financially for my mom and policy makers should have to deal with a crisis to know they are starving the schools with their insistence on underpaying teachers.
The recent issues like misbehaved kids and policies where thugs can come in an police what a teacher teachers in the name of ‘protecting children’ only make this much worse. This is what happens when ultimillionaire businessmen’s kids are the ones making all the policies in my state.
My mother was a teacher. My sister is close to retirement. My mother ( elementary school) was offered early retirement at full pension after she was attacked by an indigenous student she when she tried to intervene when he was attacking another smaller child. He laughed at my mother with his indigenous political backing at that was then. My mother took the retirement in an instant. My sister followed in her footsteps and she has it way worse. The second she retired will be like getting out of prison.
So shes leaving and heart broken because now parents know what is being taught their kids.
It's not going to get better. The administrators don't support their teachers. Most are cowardly and throw teachers under the bus when they face a parent, especially if it involves the discipline of a student.
How has the interest level from the most talented teachers entering this profession, been affected ?
Yes, teaching is such a burnout job that we should be able to retire after 20 years. One benefit we should have is one full year of a paid sabbatical to use as you choose. It could be in increments of months or the whole year at once. This along with pay, less work load, correcting student behavior, etc. would need to change immediately.
Student discipline... start and end of problems.
One is born to be a teacher!
Originally, I was a music teacher (band, choir) for ten years and the program was dropped.
The superintendent felt I would make a good classroom teacher and told me to get an elementary credential
and he would hire me.
That's what happened!
I found that I was a better classroom teacher because I was a very academic person with an interest in music.
I found a skill in teaching 3rd and 4th grade which I developed as a music teacher.
I taught for 35 years and am presently retired!
This is why i plan on home school for my kids when they are old enough, i live in a community with packs of home schoolers, if this problem is still an issue, which it most likely will be.
And now they are laying teachers off.
Part of the problem is parents not wanting to teach their children manners & how to behave. Then they go to school and cuss teachers out, fight in the classroom, etc and the parents do everything they can to keep those kids in the classroom so they don’t have to deal with them. And then you have school officials and politicians stating that kids who get disciplined for throwing a desk or whatever are on a prison pipeline.
Children deserve to feel safe and have a safe environment to learn in. Teachers deserve to feel safe and have a safe environment to teach in. If a child throws a desk or starts being violent they need to be removed & not allowed back. Full stop. You lost your chance. Caught selling drugs at school? You’re out. No coming back. Maybe then the parents will teach them how to behave, since they will have to figure out what to do with them now.
Hello
Did you know what the meaning of " every and their mother " Of a slang
Parents that need a job give them a job
You don’t need a degree to be a teacher in Arizona. Instead of raising pay, they lowered standards.
In my opinion teaching salaries should start at $80k for elementary school, $125k for middle school and high schools should be by kids interest not general with high school salaries starting at $175k and leave the politics OUT OF THE CLASSROOM. Teachers are not SOCIAL WORKERS. Manage your own damn kids and their issues which is oftentimes is the parents issues. Just my 2 cents.
fact: in many countries around the world, only the worst performing college graduates become teachers. The few countries where this is not the case are the ones that value teachers for the important people they are, like Singapore, Korea.
Can you provide a credible link to your "fact". For example, you missed Finland, which sits at the top of public school quality. In the US the worst performing college graduates go in politics.
@@mathisnotforthefaintofheart most people are desperate for jobs with some useless degrees so they really only can go into teaching it’s self explanatory
@@jayjyuri8796 Well, it's not so "self-explanatory" as you claim it to be. Been on several hiring committees of our institution (STEM) and I can tell you that the way YOU think that is not how it works. Typical for a faculty position we get more than 100 applicants. Then first HR filters out 90% of them as deemed "unqualified and then we need to select 5 for an interview. I am not talking about Kindergarten. If you think that a useless degree gets you a tenured (!!) job at some institution, you are sadly mistaken
@@jayjyuri8796most of the teachers I had possessed Master’s degrees. So I’m not sure what point you’re getting at…
Definitely not a fact… more like a biased opinion.
I think that there is much self- doubt when you are a teacher.
At 4:00 Educated Parents Are A School Boards Worst Nightmare. Oh the irony.
There are PLENTY OF TEACHERS !!! There just aren't enough ( any?) decent school districts for us to teach in.
"Both sides" didn't politicize culture wars that targeted teachers. Just saying.
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Pay off my loans. It's the #1 thing that stresses me out.
Sadly teaching is dying. I have been teaching for 5 years. Now after 5 years I am plannning on leaving.
Virtual was awesome.
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This has been going on long before Covid….students are out of control…refuse to learn….think they know more than the teachers…are profane, violent, unmotivated, arrogant, cocky, brash, noisy, uncooperative, etc. Until students are held accountable for bad behavior….this will continue. My daughter ( teacher of the year) can’t wait to retire and get out.