This can’t be “turned around” until all of these are fixed: 1. Low pay 2. Disrespectful parents 3. Badly behaved/ emotionally challenged students 4. Unsupportive admin. 5. Ridiculous workload/micromanagent 6. Politicization of education 7. Educational inequalities resulting in lack of resources, etc… 8. Stress of active shooter drills

Florida is literally the last state I’d like to work at as a teacher

Being a teacher is NOT a great thing. We are NOT supported by the state or the community…. To tell college students that teaching is a great career is straight up GASLIGHTING, and should be ousted.

When you disrespect the profession and make it impossible to do our job this is what you get; I was a teacher for 45 years and would not teach in Florida for anything.

Ron desantis and the Florida legislature are directly responsible. Teachers don't want to stay or come to Florida.

Never become a teacher. Say 1 wrong thing and years of hard work and dedication are destroyed in a moment.

12:57 We aren’t indoctrinating your kids. If we could, I would indoctrinate my students to turn in their homework.

As a teacher I would never work in any state that politicizes curriculum as much as Florida does.

Florida has no one to blame but themselves.

Students are running the classrooms. Teachers need to be supported by parents and admin in taking their classrooms back

Stop raising entitled brats and teaches will return to the classroom.

A big problem: school boards and politicians assuming that teachers will and must work outside of duty hours. That is what is causing teacher burn out- all for the cause of raising test scores! Guess what? Teachers have families and community obligations, hobbies, etc. Teachers Should not sacrifice their personal lives at the altar of standardized test scores!!! Truth- the work can not get done during work hours. It is toooooo much work! Young teachers may not set boundaries; they burn out!

Most workers don’t go to their job ea. day with the threat of being verbally abused, beaten or shot by a child.

Pay them a living wage. Very easy answer.

The students know what teaching is about when they see their underpaid teacher get punched, bitten, hit by furniture thrown by the kids, and then get attacked by the parents again by thrown furniture or on social media, then get trashed publicly by lawmakers and politicians, and then they get asked to teach extra classes with extra large groups.

I just passed my exams to teach high school bio, chem, physics, and math and am about to get my bachelor’s and teach in either Massachusetts or Connecticut. I would NEVER teach in Florida the way it is right now. I would literally move countries first!

perhaps this is a wake up call that the US should, uh, value teachers. and allow them to teach.

Principals having teachers back are rare

Florida's GOP gov't declared war on teachers and they walked. No surprise there.

I cannot afford houses in Florida and I cannot afford the rentals because I do not make enough money

my wife has been a teacher for nearly 30 years (yes, with MS Degree). She says the problem is that the SCHOOL BOARDS AND ADMINISTRATORS refuse to have and enforce 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. 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, but only between 2 students and not knock down drag outs), but NEVER an attack on a teacher. Ancient history, I guess. I graduated HS in 1964.

Being a teacher is more tuff than it seems, especially when the parents who should have never been parents in the first place don’t give discipline and education to the child morality and motivation. These kids have no other mentors in their life, they look up to gangsters and freak culture.

As a Florida native, this is devastating news. Florida is already an illiterate state when it comes to education. I once had to move to Texas at one point in middle school and was culture shocked by how much harder the work was. Now we have a shortage of teachers?!? My future kids will definitely suffer if this continues 💯

Florida will continue to see teacher shortages because of the high politicization of the profession lead by the governor. As a former teacher in Florida, I am glad I left for a state were I won't be attacked by the governor. It is already such a difficult profession and the governor's constant attacks made it worse.

Politicians do not care about us at all

Get a better governor.

Let’s start giving the bad behaved kids actual consequences for their actions instead of rewarding them with snacks and treats at the office. Maybe you wouldn’t have so many teachers wanting to leave

I'm from Africa a teacher by profession... I'd move there if they stop disrespecting teachers and pay them meagre salaries! It's frustrating !

$40000 is equivalent to $20 an hour for a degree, which easily coat $80000. Why become a teacher when one could work less and be treated better?

It will continue to decline until teachers are paid a living wage. House costs are so high teachers can't live in Florida. I'm one of them. I cannot live in Florida on a teacher's salary. It's lke this is many states, but the cost of living in Florida is extremely hight. Other contributing factors are class sizes and workload. I love the hard work of teaching, but I have to feed my family. The micromanagement of teachers and disrespect of the profession is too much.

Maybe Florida should put 2 and 2 together! 🤔

"Our children are at stake" and parents refuse to do the job they signed up for. If Florida wants teachers to come back then parents are going to have to kick in and actually *parent*

No one deserves this Parents will have to home school

I have my License and Masters degree in education and have 2 different endorsements. I had to jump through hoops to get my license in Florida from N.Y. and had to pay a fee and also had to pay for fingerprints and then I have less than 3 years to pass 2 exams or my license will expire!! Also all the continuing ed. we have to do and add on a costly ESE and reading certificate. Lighten up these requirements for qualified teachers!!!!

History is about facts. Restricting teachers to access and teach facts is horrific. Really, slavery wasn't one of the worse injustices in the United States and was really a job program?

The country seems doomed at this point. The govt does not want to invest in the kids and parents don’t seem to care about parenting

Give teachers more power then...dont tolerate disrespect.....give teachers power to kick out whoever they want

Teachers get treated unfairly as social workers do (depending on the state funding)

Raise starting pay to 55k and make cost of living increases. Reward teachers with masters degree at least 5k and make mandatory raises each fiscal year.

Same problem here in N.C. when you elect anti education politicians this is the result. Here in N.C. they resorted to recruited teachers from other countries. And we know how many of the people in Florida feel about immigrants. So it’ll be interesting to see how this plays out.

In my area (Texas), new teachers are offered $60,000/year.

Restore discipline in the schools. Do away with EUIQUITY grading, which means students receive at least a 50, even when they didn't attempt the assignment.

Well when you refused to do the right thing it affect everyone all the way around from the bottom to the top

If all the issues are not dealt with or resolved, this shortage will go on, even if you resort to outsourcing teachers from other countries to teach your students. Teachers from other countries will stay for awhile because of the income that they make, which is way higher that what they're getting paid in their own countries, as well as a gateway for them to establish residency and citizenship in an American soil. So, temporarily, these outsourced teachers will persevere. But when they see and experience the truth of our education system, they'll bailout just like all the other teachers that left education. So, your district will start all over from scratch...looking, scouring, and searching for teachers that will rescue your failing education system. It's WASH, RINSE, SPIN, and REPEAT!!! Read and ponder at what Karen Steele wrote below!!

It begins at the top, and that is government. Local and state government supporting education has been absent the last few years. The increase in teacher vacancies has gotten worse during these last few years. VOTE IN 2024!

Hmmmmm... why is there a teacher shortage they asked? Oh, I know! Who wants to work for low pay? Who wants to see someone else without a proper teacher qualification or teaching experience be allowed to teach a class just because they're a military vet/a military spouse? Who wants to be at risk of being charged with a felony if a parent randomly decides they don't like the books you have in your classroom, or even just one book, for any reason, even if they said they were ok with it last week? Who wants to have a classroom with no books for exactly this reason? Who wants to teach in an environment where traditional consequences such as detention, being sent to the office, ISS etc are now either not enforced or seen as 'abuse'? Who wants to teach in an environment where admin rewards kids you send to the office for misbehaving with candy? Who wants to be blamed for student misbehaviours despite having consequences taken away and admin rewarding kids sent to the office with candy? Who wants to have the ability to give kids zeros and sometimes any grade less than 50 percent taken away under any circumstances? Who wants to see kids graduate who have done absolutely nothing to earn it and who are absolutely not ready to leave school? Who wants to be blamed because your pass rates or test scores aren't high enough despite any incentives and motivations and reasons kids had to try hard at their tests and exams and assignments not being there anymore, and the only ones still there are the ones that come from their own families IF they get them? Who wants to be micromanaged? Who wants to work outside contract hours to get all the pointless work that nobody will ever read anyway done? Who wants to deal with parents who don't respect you? Who wants to deal with kids who don't respect you? Who wants to deal with admin who don't respect you? Who wants to deal with a school district that doesn't respect you? Who wants to deal with Ron DeSantis who doesn't respect you?

Teaching is a political job. The city and state determine majority aspects of teaching & consequences for student behavior. It’s not just the low salary.

Don’t say gay and deny students from using their pronouns…. As a genetically transman with a Y chromosome I can scientifically prove that I’ve been transgender my entire life. But I shouldn’t have to prove my right to my freedom of identity. All Florida teachers need to strike and stand together and fight against the governmental assault on all teachers and all students freedom. Censoring the existence of a minority group of people is wrong, it’s unamerican and it’s unfair. The government should not be allowed to control American citizens and censor their existence. The fact this is even happening in Florida is a huge red flag for the whole country.

I think we need to do some Fineland type schooling letting the kids be more part of their own education HELPING the schools while learning life skills. Make school fun so kids can actually learn, not memorize. Remembering all kids have different skills. One may be great at math while another may be a great chef. Bring out the kids true gifts. This would allow for more types of teachers teaching different types of skills while Is having a purpose to teach again. Perfect time to rethink our education systems and make changes where needed and new light where it's been dark for a reaaly long time.

It’s Florida, of course it’s worse in Florida (and Texas).

I would never want to teach in Florida because of its politics and elected officials. Deplorable!!

If a military vet can teach, retired professionals shouldn't have to jump through hoops, retake tests, and pay fees to be recertified. Roll out the red carpet, Florida. Raise the pay, because the cost of living went way up, and provide excellent healthcare coverage. Same for reliable substitutes. The merchandise in department stores in this nation is valued more highly our students, teachers and staff.

In sarcastic theory, this is a "Teachers Genocide"

Ron Death Sentence

The reporter asked him what the endgame would look like if this trend continues… inevitably they would have to increase pay or just import teachers from other countries who (might) accept the lower pay

DO NOT BE A TEACHER< EVER! I wish I had not sold myself so cheaply.

Amazing interview

Crayons are too " Woke" teacher could get a felony

I WILL become a teacher in Florida because I want to and someone has to do it 😊

Great parents teach their own kids

Its going to take much more than money.

Solution: Pay them more ! That simple.

What a shock! Nobody saw this coming! NOT!

Exactly the same issues in Victoria

Wow. Thanks for the vote of confidence in Military Vets. Some of the best teachers I had growing up were veterans. Others are amazing teachers and they are still serving in the military. What do you think active duty soldiers do? They teach the younger ones and inspire them to do things that absolutely no one else is is willing to do.

The pay is abysmal. The state needs to boost veteran teacher pay 20,000. Teacher pay has stagnated for thr past 15 years. Any teacher with over 15 years of teaching needs to make 20,000 more ASAp. Florida is losing its veteran teachers which is bad for schools for so many reasons.

@1:38 - "Even some of the antics we have tried ..." Antics: an interesting choice of words telling the listener what exactly?

Florida teachers need and deserve a big raise.

If you only speak English, you cannot teach in southern Florida.

We need drivers over here where I work. I wonder if I can advertise them.

Well, just a thought, but it might help if you stopped calling them groomers!

Pay and respect are why there is a teacher shortage *nationwide*. The reason the shortage is even worse in Florida specifically has to do with not being able to teach history or science. People in the science and history areas have to teach propaganda instead. Pay alone will NOT fix that issue.

Why is he smiling.

I like *students*. I hate snot nosed brats who are only there because the parents/guardians need free daycare.

Your reaping what you have sowed .

Florida has a teacher shortage for the same reason the rest of the country does. Out of control and expensive OCCUPATIONAL LICENSING for k-12 teachers.

Teachers in St Louis make over $110,000, however this is how its done: 1. Work in one of the top 5 districts in St Louis County (suburbs). 2. Get a masters and plus 30 3. Teach in the same district for at least 25 years. 4. Coach a major sport and/or sponsor several clubs.

The most dispassionate response to this sort of material is to point out that the majority of the kids, since they’ve been assigned to inappropriate programs considering their limited intellectual capacity, will learn very little no matter who is teaching them, whether it be a regular teacher or a permanent substitute with perhaps an unrelated degree. There needs to be a massive retooling of the schools providing a great deal more vocational training for those who are below average verbally and also in terms of abstract reasoning. The notion that everyone should be in college prep has clearly been discredited at this point. So to a partial extent the teacher shortage is the result of trying to place too many kids in academic programs leading to college for which they are unsuited, since inevitably they are going to end up being manual workers or service workers.

Like every administrator he is clueless.....

Don't worry. If you have teacher shortages, you can come to Portugal and take a few thousands with you, there're cheap and eat little...

FL, not surprised.

Does the guy think this will change the trajectory?

Keep politicizing education and no one would want to teach.

I choose not to have kids! I live a king! 😂

You can contact me and interview me on camera .

The politicians can go teach the students THEMSELVES. I hope more teachers leave the profession, they'll hire teachers from around the world. When those teachers see the bs teachers in America have to put up with, they'll fly back to their countries happy they left.

I am glad I am not a teacher. 😅

Pi would go if I could afford basics living there… but I’m not sure that’s the case

Maybe they should pay more??

Do Floridians deserve teachers?

I need to be in Florida to care for aging parents... I JUST CAN'T !!! Even if I take a job in Florida as an admin. I will make 30-40K less than what I make in Texas. Love my parents very much, but financially that will be suicide for my retirement!!

Teachers have no power and are disrespected. We have lousy parenting and bratty, entitled children. No wonder teachers are leaving the profession in droves.

I dont think about the money they are people.

Hey kids go to the bathroom let them do nothing. Just get up and walk out.

The future is at risk and this country doesn’t care.

Yeah, let's allow homeless people to teach atudents how to survive homelessness on the street ....that's very smart....lol.... oh lord, can anyone imagine have a PTSD veteran soldier teaching studenys who also have PTSD...???

If your children are so damned important, maybe try stop wrecking teachers!

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Florida- do better. There’s no teacher shortage. They have all left for greener pastures.

Hi, I am currently living in Brazil. I am an american citizen and have a bachelor degree on education and on early childhood and esl and three post graduate degree. I just don´t have the money to go back to american because I have my daughter and husband. Help me please are they recruiting from other country can they help me and my family?