I was a teacher 31 years. I retired in 2016. I saw the changing attitude toward teachers from the 1980s until 2017. I can imagine what it is like today.

I substitute teach. Let me tell you what goes on with your darling children. They are disrespectful, foul-mouthed, horrid little humans. They have been taught that anything that they say or do is permissible. There is not enough money available to get me to teach full time. Teaching has always been a lower paying job; it was acceptable because of the benefits. There is no benefit now to being hit, bit, spit on, and disrespected. If you want teachers, then you need to bring respect back to the classroom.

Too many people in office making decisions for teachers who have absolutely no experience in the profession. It’s total bs

Students have more power than the teachers. Any poor performance by the bratty kids is the teacher's fault yet many such students do not like to do assignments often or put in any effort to excel. Students expect A grade regardless of their effort. Pathetic!

There is no teacher shortage. There is a shortage of valuing go, respecting, caring for & paying teachers for the important ,critical part of life they are.

My God, they have hotlines to schools where parents can lodge complaints against teachers anonymously! They spend their own money on their classrooms. I've a friend that left teaching after 13 yrs that took a job at a non-profit. She's making 20k more a year at her new job. No bs, no stress and no danger. What do people expect? In foreign countries, teachers are held in highest esteem as though they were Dr's.

Parents please read to your children the day that they are born. Spend time with them, asked them to do chores, do not allow them to break rules without consequences, set a bed time, eat at the table, expect teens to work a few hours for luxury items (help wanted signs every where), spend the same amount of time spent on your social media platforms in their online work and academic progress, you have access to their assignments and grades online, go to the school sometimes, limit your social time, tv time to attending to your children.....game changer.

Parents lack of discipline with their children is also a large problem, I have to admit. The school is a hostile environment.

As a teacher, I am tired of the bratty kids who have neglectful parents, the principals that do nothing about the bad behaviors but blame the teacher, and the endless and useless paperwork that nobody even looks at. I finally got a decent raise, but now, today, my union just informed us that the board of education may go back on that promise on our contract. But if WE were to negate that contract we would lose our jobs and teaching licenses! I am barely hanging onto this shi**y job. I have been saying this since the pandemic. Thought it would get better, afterward. It got worse!

You want to see more special education teachers? Pay them extra for their extra credentials, extra skills required to do their job, and the extra work involved. You want to see more bi-lingual teachers? Pay them extra for their extra skill set.

Lack of respect and support all around.

News talks about this every year but yet nothing changes

Yet school administrators earn $100-500k For doing pretty much nothing

I taught for 16yrs. No professional respect.

Lack of Support & disrespect!! #1 issue!!! And it will always continue to be an issue with in our school systems. And even pay increases won't help. Our district is offering a 500.00 hiring bonuses and we still cannot fill positions

Overworked, underpaid, abuse from the district, abuse from school admin, abuse from students, abuse from parents and the potential to be shot with poor insurance coverage if they are assaulted, and a Go-Fund-Me if they die. No one can afford to be a teacher and in some places fast food pays more annually. I quit in 2006 after just a couple of years for health reasons, I never went back after my health stabilized. No one can pay me enough to go back to the classroom now.

When you’re paid like a slave most people won’t go into that profession.

I get lots of offers to be substitute teacher or teacher assistant but i would rather work in retail or fast food

Saw this coming. Local school boards and the US Department of Education have no one to blame but themselves. The Department of Education is more trouble than it's worth and needs to be dismantled.

Parents that don't support the teachers authority. They literally don't require their kids do homework or behave in school

We don’t have a teaching problem, we have a parenting problem. Fix that and the teachers will come back in droves.

Not long ago each teacher use to get a budget to buy supplies for the class. What has happened to that?! It’s not right that these teachers who are under payed already now they have to buy hundreds of dollars of supplies and materials. Nonsense.

Having to say that men can get pregnant might have something to do with it.

Teachers have gone from educating children to raising children. Enough already, parents raise your kids and use birth control. Until we reward responsible breeding instead of forcing breeding, this will get worse.

Emotionally disturbed children are allowed to run the classrooms and the teachers are expected to tolerate it! Teachers are overworked and teacher shortages dump a larger workload onto them and amplifies the problem! No support with discipline problems! Teachers required to document problems in an effort to deter them from complaining! Pay raises below inflation levels which makes them poorer by the year, meanwhile increasing health insurance premiums to the point they are unaffordable! Principals hiring their buddies as “specialists” to sit around and eat donuts and figure out ways to add to the teacher’s work load rather than providing actual support to the overburdened teacher!

In Florida DeSatan has destroyed so much of our schools. We had enough problems before he made stupid ass rules/laws. Just watching the Bored Teachers YT videos on what they are expected to do and put up with was unbelievable to me! When I was a kid a teacher, cop, nurse, where some of the most respected professions to get into but these days? America needs to get their heads out of their ...

School Shooters are definitely a huge factor

Some of Georgia’s school districts might collapse, as teachers report exhaustion after their first week of school. They are teaching classes of 45 to 60 students, and then spend their planning time teaching classes of teachers who had left before school started.

What's driving it? Big brother! Bloated over paid admins, underpaid and over worked teachers, out of control students with no discipline, helicopter parents who side with the spoiled little brats instead of the teachers-need I go on? Our-lack of education "education" system is so far down the toilet who would want to enter it as a profession?

There is no teacher shortage. There are plenty of people ready to do the job. The working conditions need to change. Teachers need to be compensated accordingly. We spend more on the people we lock up than on our children’s education.

There isn’t a teacher shortage, there is a lack of RESPECT for educators. Teachers have been accused of hurting kids because they teach history, then people attack them during COVID and refuse to wear masks which threatens their health, they are physically assaulted at work, asked to take up arms and defend students, under paid, forced to work long hours that they are not compensated for, etc. Who would want to do this job. I don’t blame them one bit. Let everyone asking them to carry guns, force them to teach propaganda, and spend their own money on supplies teach their own kids!

The problems of what teachers have been warning about for years still have not been addressed, and now we are at a crisis in which may have dire consequences in the future.

This is my 32nd and last year in teaching. I work in Nevada. My district gave 1st year teachers a 16% pay raise so that they're now earning $50,115. I have a Master's degree and over three decades of experience but am only making $15,000 more than a 1st year teacher. My health insurance is also the pits. I was hospitalized last year and it took my district's insurance ONE YEAR to pay my medical bills. My credit rating dropped and I was getting daily calls from collection agencies. Who needs this grief?

I think teachers need to be heard and catered for. Teaching is a mentally draining profession with very little pay. Not much parents/admin/students appreciate you. I hope that the needful is done to encourage teachers and the profession

R U KIDDING?! #TEACHERS #MASSSHOOTINGS #SHOESTRINGSALARIES

Why don't they interview ACTUAL Teachers as to why so many are quitting!

I left teaching in 2019 and one of the major reasons was because of the emotional toll the job took on me. My students were awesome and to be honest, 98% of the parents were great, but I was teaching AP classes for $19,000 a year. I didn't have my own classroom, I had to pack the cart I drug around the school all day with snacks, and there was pressure to make sure everyone was getting good grades. We were also required to stay after school to run extra curricular activities. I always arrived two hours early so I could avoid taking so much work home. One day the principal told me I needed to make sure I was in the building until 4:30, even though I was at work by 6:00 each day. He told me it was like stealing from the school if I left ten minutes early. I loved the actual teaching and interacting with the kids and parents, but those aspects are a small component of the job.

A temporal solution is to hire unemployed profesionals with bachelor or master degrees in other fields who are educated and can be easily trained to take over the classrooms. But unfortunately there is many requirements and low pay

I was a teacher in new mexico The classrooms with mecksikyns and buhlacks are horrible nightmares. They refuse to learn or behave. They’re impossible to teach and their parents don’t care and the administrators do nothing except blame their terrible behavior and grades on teachers. Plus no one wants to work in woke khrapp

If they are serious about retaining teachers they need to pay these teacher a living, wage otherwise they would pursue higher paying jobs that's not in the academic field.

I have a masters in Teaching, yet I work at a call center. I make more at the call center than I ever did as a teacher. The call center is less stressful than teaching. Why would I go back to teach?

I appreciate Noel's responses.

EVERYONE now knows all of the reasons why teachers quit. So, why aren't tons of things being done to help?? All we see are these news pieces about the shortage. Disgusted, as a retired teacher.

South Carolina lottery supports education. Horry County ( Myrtle Beach) has 31% illiteracy rate. What does that money do? Maybe it was Five years ago they bought brand new air conditioned buses for the whole county. That money could have put Teaching Aides in classrooms to help bolster test scores. Jobs are minimal skill set since it is a Tourist Destination. They advertise Teach at the Beach. So many leave not renewing their contract. Education is not a priority in this country. This is our future & student’s they are being dumbed down.

We are looking at 500,000 vacancies by 2026 because of the economic structure of teaching. The average teachers last only 15 years and it takes 30 years to get their golden pension. Over 77% of teachers never receive a pension and 40% do not receive social security. The next 25 years of salaries are expected to decline and inflation guarantees a loss of real dollars and an increasing poverty rate for teachers. Students may have to bring cans of food for teachers to have a meal and prevent teacher starvation.

I think, school administrators don't share the constant harresment and hostile work environment that occur. Many school administrators turn the workplace environment into a war zone because they are under pressure for work related reasons.

I love teaching and have NO desire whatever to quit. Why? 1. I’m well-supported and respected by the community, parents, staff and loved and appreciated by my middle schoolers. 2. Pay’s great in my district 3. There’s an excellent curriculum, no bs, and I have a fair amount of freedom to teach what I want so long as it follows the guidelines. Yeah, there are challenges-always-but there’s not a more rewarding or downright FUN profession in the world. ❤️ 🍎 ❤️

It's the kids!!

States like California rather hire less experience teachers to pay less... newbies...while experience teachers are push away. Also parents and administration are in the ..lack of support. 😔. Teaching is not longer a nice work environment.

High turnover in teaching been around for years. Attracting students but no teachers.

Get to your class!!! But principal There's no teacher!! There's books isnt there???!!!!

They should all quit public School is worthless

can i apply how? Philippines

It's the hiring system and all the requirements. It's too strict and rigid. Getting a teaching job today is like trying to join the secret service, especially for new teachers without experience, and especially for teachers of color without experience. Teachers of color aren't given an inch! I applied for a teaching job in multiple counties. I have an active teacher's license and Master's degree in Education. But because I couldn't get three letters of recommendation from principal sponsors, I was turned away by human resources departments who told me that they couldn't add me to their pool of applicants. This is why you have no teachers. If I'm a new teacher, then where would I get three references from principals? I am brand new to the profession. I don't know any principals! What an idiotic requirement. A lot of school systems and counties need to completely overhaul their requirements for hiring teachers, especially educators new to the industry and particularly educators of color. Educators of color, particularly black educators, are treated in a very peculiar way by schools. Black teacher candidates are actually passed over and rejected at teacher job fairs while principals will literally fight against each other in front of everybody to hire white female applicants. White female applicants are frequently hired and issued contracts right there on the spot! I have seen this happen again and again at teacher job fairs. Principals don't even try to hide their preferences, because they identify with those applicants the most. It's obnoxious. It is also unfair to see white applicants leave teacher job fairs with contracts in hand, while Black, Asian, and Latino applicants leave wondering what did they do wrong and why didn't anyone pick them to have a nice classroom. Even at teacher job fairs that specifically target educators of color, white females will show up anyway and on purpose to make a point. I have see this too. Then, they get chosen first by white administrators, each and every time, especially for the most desirable schools in affluent districts where everyone is trying to teach. You wouldn't know any of this, unless you became an educator, but there is a an ongoing war happening between teachers in education. We are all clawing at each other for the same types of schools that are flooded with applications every school year. And they aren't in urban or underfunded districts!

Our community got a bunch of money from wind farm development and they built a gymnasium (best class C ever!) yeah! Best investment ever for parents to relive their childhood through basketball, meanwhile the teachers are at poverty level salaries and the kids graduate barely literate. As a teacher who went into another career, I’m glad I left when I did.

teacher shortage. there is no shortage, we choose not to be abused == shortage? no. lol

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