National Teacher Shortage Affects Thousands of Students
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- čas přidán 3. 02. 2023
- Here’s how the national teacher shortage is affecting students across the U.S.
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I was a teacher for 25 years until recently. I no longer felt safe to walk into my classroom and do my job without having to worry about getting spit on, hit or shot. It's not worth it anymore. It was a sad day when I left.
Especially now too much legislation that restricted teacher for teach what supposed to be teach based on BS and punish them for no good reason, hostile parents, and low wage for long hours and hard work. American education future looks bleek. It's possible that America will further left behind from other country.
I'm sorry to hear that you had to leave teaching due to safety concerns. It must have been a difficult decision to make, but your safety should always be a priority. It's a shame that such incidents have become increasingly common and it's a loss for the students and the community when experienced teachers like yourself are no longer able to do the job they love. Hopefully, steps can be taken to address the root causes of these incidents and create a safer working environment for teachers in the future.
Me too! I’m done!
Over 30 years and it is harder now than when I started, I want to make this my last year of teaching. When you do not have the help of the Profession the schools, the staffing, the boards any more an know help from the parents any more it is becoming harder to teach, you cannot teach un discipline children, that doesn't always mean corporal punishment, it means just listening and who do they listen to now a days? 😒
They treated teachers like they’re replaceable for years
And, they were until they weren't! Now, they are trying to let anyone become a teacher. Let's see how that goes...
@@rspen2142 modern teachers have kids pledging allegiance to the lgbt flag
There is no educator shortage. There are good educators out there, but they are fed up & have found less stressful jobs. I blame low pay & lack of parent/student accountability.
This is a disgrace. Not too long ago I googled the educational systems in other countries. I was amazed. In Finland teachers have status as well as respect and are paid well. This is a disgrace. How embarrassing for our country.
@@93pljohnson Finland also has programs far superior to those of the US when it comes to assisting struggling families and individuals. There is a reason why Nord countries are the happiest nations on Earth. They have a sense of community and collaboration that members of other nations can only dream of. Not surprising, countries like Finland, Norway, Denmark, etc tend to vote for female prime ministers and politicians that serve the public good.
the US is trying so hard not to pay teachers a living wage that now any random person off the street can be a teacher is so sad it's almost funny.
I left education last year and it was the smartest move I ever made. If you've never done it, it's difficult to explain how much work it is for so little compensation and support.
Veteran teacher, here. I often fantasize about selling everything I own, buying a tiny house, and waitressing.
I worked as a teacher for a year (bachelor in my language but not a teacher's degree), and it was rough. So rough. And I'm in Sweden, not the USA.
Much happier in my current field.
@@MsVbrooks I did go back to waitressing but the lack of insurance is not a good thing. The part that is the best is that when your shift is done, it’s actually over. No parent phone calls and grading. Also getting so much exercise is amazing too.
Lmao man we'll do basically anything not to pay people what they deserve.
When a school has a position called "CEO" it's an immediate red flag.
Dude, it isn't about how easy it is. It's about how little schools pay
Republicans don't like to pay people livable wages!
I was about to say the same thing
Education desperately needs reform.
I was a teacher for only 3-ish years... I loved teaching and being with my kids so much and it really hurt to leave them. At the same time, I couldn't keep up with working from 7:45 am to 9:30 pm every day. Simply, I felt like for all the things I did, my pay didn't match. It also didn't make sense that I had to pay for professional development to eventually increase my pay. Genuinely asking, but what other career makes you pay to play in both professional development, supplies, etc.? I hope teaching becomes better and I hope that the problems teachers face become resolved, but I didn't want to gamble on it anymore.
Exactly right!
Nursing
@@timmylittle2406 Wait... Nurses have to pay for their own professional development?! That's crazy!!
And renewing the certs and everything cost money, ($150 to renew three carts and then another $75 to transfer credits into the portal system, as well as another $45 yo finalize the transfer fees and the $20 for transcripts) and it is the same dance done every five years.
Meanwhile, in Funeral Services here in South Florida, the board directors are working on minimizing the number of certs and exams needed to own and run a Funeral Home. They want to do a three in one cert exam so that it minimizes the clutter mess they have right now and increases available directors for any area that is needed, maximizing the use of the directors they have currently, while encouraging future directors to enter. They will even contact you once you have a cert and in the graduates program automatically... it is as if the Funeral department and the college programs are working as a single unit, I love it!!!
Seeing how Funeral Services are managed and run has convinced me that the Education system is one of those professions not worth the time, effort and money to deal with. I had the taste of what competency and people who care about their profession feels like. This includes observing how senior directors are so supportive and helpful to novice individuals of this profession. The top professors in the Funeral Service department works closely with the Funeral Director agencies and associations to create grant programs and scholar ships programs to support low income students, etc. I'm upset that I went with family tradition (being a teacher like most people in my family) rather than choosing wealth and peace of mind (being a Funeral Director and having my own business of operations). Fortunately, I am patience person and very studious, so going back has always been an open option.
I taught for 27yrs, retiring just before Covid. I was planning on substituting but haven't missed it. The amount of outside work and cost of what should be provided supplies made me retire early. The lack of respect from parents and students progressively worsening with low pay nailed the decision.
I didn't hear anything about raising pay, improving working conditions, or outright banning assault rifles from the general public. This is essentially spraying an expired antiseptic on a gushing wound, nevermind a bandaid with a broken seal.
Lowering the requirements to become a teacher means lowering the quality of education us students receive. Maybe you should consider how much you need to pay teachers for the amount of work and dedication they put- they legit create future generations.
Maybe pay them correctly, kick out or penalize violent and disruptive students, stop coddling the parents who aren't doing what they should and blame the teachers for their failure, and stop consistently acting like if a kid is failing that is 100% an indicator that the teacher is failing. Have their backs. Stop making them pay for their own supplies.
Treat teachers like the valuable people they are.
i'm sad for the students, but i could not care one fig if every charter school disappeared and all the money funneled into them went back to public education again. perhaps if we treat teachers as providers of a constitutional service for children again we will have more of them.
Yep! Shi***ng all over the profession by lowering standards will only make things worse. And our children's education CRAPPIER. What a travesty and an insult. As a teacher, (an actual real teacher with a teaching degree), I'm not ever going to work next to someone who doesn't have a teaching degree, lower myself in so doing.
They can no longer work for what the pay is. Raise the wages to livable, stop making them buy their dam supplies with their own money, then you'll get good teachers without shortages
Wow!!! This will affect students who want to go to university. They won't be prepared. The government treated teachers thinking they are just glorified babysitters. And it's not the case. Well, what would they think would happen??? Knowledge is being crushed. They never dealt with the shooting on school properties. Again, what did they think would happen?
When teachers realize they can make more doing only fans or streaming like most people today.
I mean, many have done that. I'm at the point where I'm halfway to getting my side businesses earning enough money so I can leave the profession too. So many new battles and procedures and interventions every year, but nothing reduced, no support, no relief for teachers. I have to wear so many more hats and do so much more paperwork than I did 15 years ago. And if a kid loses it in my class, I can't just give them detention like I used to.
@@ghintz2156 i hope you find the place where you can prosper and find where you wanna be at brother
And why wouldn’t they? Its profitable.
@Shiruba Seishin nobody said they shouldnt. Stop assuming.
Sad
Public school teacher here...charter schools have less protocols to follow and often it leads to a lack of consistency then a cluster eff, to them losing teachers as they get too frustrated to stay. Charters are full of brand new teachers so they lack teachers to mentor them so they come in and leave in like a year.
Public schools have their issues too, but at least we have consistent systems in place that all the schools follow.
Public schools are a school to prison or jobless pipeline...
Treat the kids like criminals... breeds criminals!
Teachers unions destroyed education
Exactly, charter schools are horrible.
Private school teacher here- Although I’m a product of public school (elementary through college) I would never teach in one. Private school is a MUCH better experience for teachers and the pay for many of them is competitive with public school salaries. I commend you public school teachers- I could never do that.
If they actually paid teachers a lot better, they wouldn't have so many quit
Until school districts do a better job of hiring better admin - instead of moving incompetent leaders from one building to another - and pay teachers better, many are just not willing to be martyrs anymore. Safety concerns, enormous class sizes, poorly run buildings are no way to keep educated and dedicated teachers in those buildings anymore. It's as simple as that.
I use to spend about $160+ per month in classroom supplies. Things that any classroom should have like paper, craft projects, scissors, kleenex, glue, etc. I, nor any teacher, receives reimbursement for these supplies. On top of working this full time job, I had to work on weekends to clean homes, just to try to make ends meet. I had to ask parents to bring in items from home they normally just toss in recycle bin (like the cardboard roll from toilet paper), and most times I got very little.
Republicans continually refuse to raise the minimum wage past 10/hr. Last time it was raised was 2009. And they are perfectly fine with that. Teacher's aids earn minimum wage.
But teachers, especially preschool teachers (like I was), even with a degree do not earn more than 32-33K per year. When you subtract the 2K plus you spend out of your own pocket for supplies, and the added 3-4 hours per day you have to work (unpaid) to write daily reports, put together weekly classroom activities, clean your classroom, shop for supplies etc., it averages to about $12/hr each teacher is earning. Of course they are leaving. Especially in Texas where Abbott isn't doing anything about making sure classrooms are safe.
Pay teachers salaries like you pay football players. We won't have a teaching shortest in this country.
what do you expect when we insult and short them while trying to kill them and accusing them of grooming. passion only goes so far.
I begged my system for safety requirements for years before c-19! Our school was open to anyone and I was treated like trash from everyone including teachers, staff, parents, during c-19 anyone started coming onto campus and it became scary! Lockdown after lockdown then they wanted to listen!
I was burnt out from the mental & demanding abuse by then…. You all fix your own problems! I tried! We have to think proactively when it comes to our children!
If I didn’t feel safe teaching them… come on now, I had videos, pictures etc of grown men not fathers but grown men dropping off teenage girls in the back of the school. The fathers would have dropped them off in the front where they were supposed to. I tried so hard to turn them in but no one would listen. Tons would sneak away. Skip school and anything could happen…. Our schools would be responsible for them! I would take pictures and call for help but no one listens. I couldn’t do it all!
Tax payers are not willing to spend the cash, but they sure are willing to make ridiculous demands and drop their bad kids off. Society has been balancing its budget on teacher’s backs. Childcare and tutoring are much more expensive than a teacher.
I feel safety is a huge issue..I'm not a teacher..but I live in NYC.. God bless those teachers... they have to worry about school violence and education..
Urban and rural areas would constitute as everywhere.
I was left wondering.. what's left after rural and urban areas?
@@OmANnIe Right!
Middle/upper-middle class suburbs
A region not having enough teachers can lead to several problems, including:
Overcrowded classrooms: Large class sizes can lead to less individualized attention for students, which can hinder their learning and development.
1. Inadequate support: Teachers play a crucial role in providing support for students, both academically and emotionally. With a shortage of teachers, students may not receive the help they need to succeed.
2. Teacher burnout: Teachers who are stretched too thin due to high student-to-teacher ratios may experience burnout, leading to decreased job satisfaction and potentially even leaving the profession.
3. Reduced access to quality education: A shortage of teachers can lead to schools being unable to provide students with a quality education. This can negatively impact students' futures and limit their opportunities.
4. Inequity: Regions that are already struggling with socio-economic challenges may be disproportionately affected by a shortage of teachers, exacerbating existing inequities in access to education.
And the governors aren’t helping either, making things harder in some States.
It's not about education. It's about the babysitting so parents can work and support the economy.
You told them leave if they didn’t like it, and they listened.
Abolish compulsory education and privatize every last school in the country. If poor children deserved to learn, they wouldn't have spent all their time shouting in class, talking back, spitting on their teachers, and physically assaulting other students.
High school senior without a math teacher for our AP Calculus class or for AP Literature here! I’m attempting to self study (for literature) and take a course at a local community college to not get left behind and make college difficult. It’s really ridiculous, school feels optional to go to with how many free periods I have. Given these circumstances..if you’re not able to send your student to a well off/private school(maybe even home schooling?) I would consider enrolling in classes at community college; they’re usually free for high school students. teachers deserve to be better compensated and appreciated though, so i don’t blame them for leaving for other professions with better pay and work life balance :/
Dropping like flies...
Suddenly!
Nobody wants that type of pay to be blamed.
So basically, teachers are going to be as qualified as a warehouse worker now?
Lucky for other families they dealt with homeschool and one day of each homework.
Not too nitpicky, it hurt kids feelings.
Instead of paying teachers a dignifying and proper salary they think the solution is lowering the bar so much that pretty much will allow anyone to teach. I wouldn't be surprised when they allow felons to teach via zoom from jail. It is wrong to consider education a business instead of a public service. It is wrong that a school has a CEO and not a principal. Pay teacher what they deserve. Don't be so short sighted and take the easy, but wrong, path.
american education is going down hill. better to just home school your kid.
Inheritance of the reign of mad woman deVos? It also seem a side effect of gun laws? And the low pay, while their controlling managers, with their burdening paperwork get the better salary. Insane!
Schools with ceos huge red flag
A good teacher is one that never gives up on their community as a whole and always shows love compassion and Understanding and Respects God and the Constitution. 😊🇺🇲
Thirty-three days left in the classroom and I’m good to go. Best of luck to who stays.
1:35 You’re talking about a teacher shortage and education…ASSESSMENT ⬅️reduction !🤨
You don't have lack of principals, superintendents and administrators, right?
Since they are so valued and getting paid x10 what teachers get and since there is no lack of them , they should fill in and do the work.
With them around education will be so fine, right? Because you pay more the people that do the most valued work and without them the system crumbles :)
The teacher shortage was intentional
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!
A b and c wing? Thats the local jails cell range numbers.... unreal.
It well may be better to exclude teachers due to they are so deprived anyway. I believe the soul-purpose is for balance. But we now have tools for balance, only issue remain will be human contact, that is a must...but recently much more dangerous nowadays.
I wonder what had changed recently..hmmmmmm
To many cut backs...extra paper work added to the work load. Children can be as bad as they want to be, admin yelling self care and yet not giving them the time to get to practice self care. Stop the cut backs, up the income...ect......
And In India, 100 people competite for a single job 😶
And how does that relate to the teacher shortage?
@@Jjonescp3 they are juxtaposing a surplus and inferring an unsaid causality
@@Jjonescp3 USA have teacher shortage and meanwhile its completely opposite in USA. That is how the comment relates to the teacher shortage
I wouldn't be a teacher in those red states either
The school board/teachers unions need to stop making enemies with the parents/public if they want to be supported better.
How do I get recruited? 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? What do I do to be recruited to get a teaching job. I am qualified.
you could have your kids go to GOP Charter Conditioning Centers and be taught their agenda.
THANK YOUR LOCAL REPUBLICAN
Teaching? NOPE.
Bezos, Musk and Russia should be forced to pay teachers' salaries!!!
@Enigma
Billionaires shouldn't exist. Russia clearly has money to waste since its invading its neighbor
Ok
Immigration from poor countries is the answer. Pay third world wages you deserve third world teachers. Not that they're bad teachers.