the worst of teaching is the gas lighting administrators

As a seasoned educator and school counselor who has left the filed, teacher pay is low, especially in the RED states, disrespect, lack of support from admin and parents, and the idea that a teacher can control factors beyond her/his classroom that affects the students and of course the violence, verbal and emotional abuse. Most teachers make under 60k in Florida where I live. A 1bedroom apt costs between 1400 to 1800 in most areas. This is a dead end! I am trying to get into the medical field or human resources. SAD. I think politicians want to dismantle public education. Poor people and minorities will suffer the most.

Quit telling teachers to self-care and start caring for the teachers.

I don’t know what a teacher’s situation is. I never graduated high school. What I do know is that these teachers are, just like doctors and nurses and literally every other vital job for America, overworked, underpaid and given no incentives to actually do their jobs. America needs to learn a very valuable lesson in Humility before it can get its @ss back on track. Right now, these shortages are only going to go from bad to extremely terrible and there’s nothing, nothing at all, that the rich people can do but pay and treat their workers better OR lose their workers completely.

Bad kids, weak parents, dumb administration, little to no support, and way less pay. Thats why I left

I'm a teacher in my third year. I have not had a year where I work less than 75 hour weeks. Every single year I have taught I have had to create our curriculum for at least one class from scratch. This is dumb and I have regularly thought of leaving.

My teaching career was in smaller, rural towns. They didn't pay anywhere near what the bigger, wealthier communities paid, and without aides and special services available, my workload was high. What kept me teaching was RESPECT. My students respected me, they were cooperative, and I never had discipline problems. The parents respected me and always did whatever they could to support what I was doing in the classroom. The administration and governing bodies respected me by allowing me to teach without interference. When I finally retired, they banded together and gave me a memorable party that made me feel that I was appreciated and had accomplished something with my life. From many reports of present-day education, these things aren't happening as much as they should. The teaching profession is not respected.

Duh... what do you think will happen when Teacher's receive low pay, overworked, personal money for students supplies, and NOW THREATENING AND TARGETING TEACHER'S!!! 😥 😔 We love teaching and helping children learn, develop, and grow... however 🤔... LEAVE US TEACHER'S ALONE TO DO WHAT WE PROFESSIONALLY NEED TO DO... "LEAVE US TEACHER'S ALONE!!!"

Get rid of bureaucrats and admins and let teachers teach.

The “average” teacher salary TEN YEARS AGO is way above the salary for CURRENT teacher salary in Florida 😣

Content knowledge is not valued anymore by principals. Teachers are now required to be more of an entertainer than they are a purveyor of knowledge. I know because I was one of those teachers that left the profession. Glad to see teachers leaving. My solution to parents: Homeschool!

There isn’t a shortage of teachers - there is a shortage of respect and support for teachers, so they leave. Plenty of qualified teachers out there.

Special Education Teachers have more students on their case and workloads now. I had 24 on my caseload and over 40 on my workload. Principals play psychological games and gaslight to make us do the extra work. One state makes Special Education Teachers do the work of Diagnosticians and Psychometrists in addition to teaching, facilitating IEP meetings and other duties. Social Workers place mental health work on the SpEd Teachers too. A total mess!

Not necessarily true about the salary. Teachers in large, urban districts typically make more than surrounding districts, particularly if there's a strong teacher union. It's unfortunate that teachers were only cared about during lockdown because families had lost their babysitters. Once things opened back, it was all forgotten and there were less supports.

Unless you’re a teacher, you can’t fully grasp why the field is so stressful. It is at times unbearable. I’m giving it one more year. If it doesn’t get better I’m done.

Yes, you might try paying us more. You try playing whack-a-mole, feeding baby birds, herding cats, dancing, and juggling plates all at the same time while trying to help every being in your room focus and learn. We teachers are also often feeding kids snacks and buying school supplies out of our own pocket books and then working weekends and late nights with no overtime pay as well as being both a counselor and often acting as a parent to many of them. Then we also have to deal with administration at the admin building and people on the state level not having even the tiniest clue as to what teachers really do or how to do it well, so they decide to have us do useless paperwork that justifies their admin jobs at the district level or one size fits all useless inservice time that wastes precious planning and individual training time. Hmmm, why in the world are teachers burned out? I am thankful that I have good administrators at the building level where I am now, because there are many horrible administrators out there who were horrible teachers and decided to become admin. Sheesh!

Teachers need more money, especially in Florida.

I felt taking advantage of bilingual staff members without extra compensation. To be constantly pulled for translation purposes is a jarring task already on top of the job you were hired to do.

Same in uk. teachers are dropping like flies

You know you live in a rich country when so many people can just confidently quit their job with the confidence that they will find another better job.

Recruit foreign teachers to fill in the shortage,I am willing to teach in America if there's available employer to assist me to be part of their educational institution.

You didn’t mention how teachers are made to be the enemy with all of the cries about CRT, gay and trans. I’m tired of being treated like sh** by some parents and students. The administration adds more and more to our plate. I just retired as I could not bear another year in the classroom.

Agree on most counts, and pay is not the only factor teachers leave (pay is very low). Students here in America have a poor work ethic and are lazy, most do not want to put in the longer hours to do the work to really progress. Discipline has hit a low point, some kids are violent, some curse their teachers, but most have little respect for authority. This comes from home. Parents do not support teachers in discipline or academics. Admin does not support the teachers in discipline or motivation of lazy kids and parents since the admin is afraid of the parents. Further, admin often has spent the least time in a class before they moved up to admin. All admin must be made to sub for 2 weeks a year in a Title 1/ disadvantaged school each year. No person should be an admin without working in a class for 15-20 years and five of these years must be in a disadvantaged school. Race and pay have nothing to do with anything. I got paid just the same as the black or Hispanic teachers. Student behavior and ability also has nothing do with race. It is a home product. Discipline your kids. This is the opposite of what I saw in Asia. Things are merit based there. After elementary school you compete to enter the best middle, high school, and university in the city and later nation. Behavior is not a question. Those that do not behave or work hard are tracked to a good vocational program and made into productive members of society. Public teacher 26 years, MA East Asian Studies Chinese, Taught in Taiwan, Fulbright Scholar Japan 2003, Fulbright Scholar China 2005.

A retired H.S. English teacher, widespread systemic heterophobia was my biggest problem, by far.

You're going to have to pay a LOT more until these wild out of control kids learn how to behave. Until then I'll keep delivering pizzas and making more money than I did teaching

Create a pool of community substitute duties like jury duty

The best solution they got is more indentured servitude for young adults

I'm the author of EIGHT DAYS IN AN INNER CITY SCHOOL the out of control OCCUPATIONAL LICENSING is chasing off more educators than anything else I

Ron DeSantis gave new teachers a raise but not veteran teachers. Be careful who you vote for.

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Hire robots

bring in the national guard I guess, students always joke that schools are just concentration camps, GUNS.

A degree in education is a waste of time. Get a degree in a real subject. Math, Science, English or History.

Public education is not a constitutional right.