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- ABC News’ Mireya Villarreal reports on how lingering pandemic stress, feelings of burnout, increased workload and low pay are some of the reasons more teachers are leaving the profession.
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Honestly, the problem isn’t that you have a shortage of present qualified teachers in the country. The shortage is that you have a lack of qualified teachers who are willing to put up with abuse and BS. Let’s be blunt.
THIS
Exactly. Teachers are tired of being martyred for the cause.
Bullseye! You hit it dead-center!
@@blugreen123 Remember emails that ended in "Thank you for all you do!" or "It's for the kids!" Translation-do everything we tell you without complaining....aren't you "for the kids?"
Yep same with hospital staff, police officers, etc.
Everyone who's not in education seems utterly *shocked* by this. Everyone who is in education is nodding, rolling their eyes and saying, "We warned you this was coming." 😐
I left the field ten years ago and haven't looked back. I would go back if certain things changed or if I retired and taught as a retirement position (small, private school only).
When I was in school I knew that I could never be a teacher because I couldn't put up with the things they had to. It has gotten much worse since then.
💯%
I think new teachers come in hoping to make a difference and be fresh eyed with students, but many get drained easily and feeling effective diminishes. Honestly I stay at my job because of the students and I still mostly enjoy what I do. There are days though where certain students leave me feeling emotionally exhausted.
Sad to see teaching has become one of the worst jobs in the USA. Other countries are not like this.
It's not a teacher shortage. It's a shortage of pay and decent treatment of our teachers
no it is an increase of illegal students in our classroom
this part!!
All the great teachers are leaving 😢 leaving the leftist insane ones who are left to indoctrinate our kids!!
@Rainmaker they were teaching on line during covid
@Rainmaker ok rainmaker
I know a teacher with 32 years who quit teaching because the kids were so out of control. You can't reprimand kids these days because their parents come down on the teachers like a ton of bricks. He just said, you can't teach kids that don't want to learn. There's no respect anymore.
And the administrations always back up the parents, so teachers remain on the losing end.
I agree
@@munimathbypeterfelton6251 That's exactly what he said, nobody backs teachers, the kids are always right.
LITERALLY. Corporal punishment needs to be brought back in schools
No disrespect but don't be stupid. Your teacher friend with 32 years in the system did not quit.
They retired. With a cop's pension. Educate yourself.
It has everything to do with how teachers are respected. That’s reflected in how they’re paid and how they’re treated
Are you a teacher?
Respected ? Lmfao they provide a service to peoples kids they need to respect parents, also theres no teacher shortage its just another made up thing the media needs to make up and talk about so they can make there money
@@jl1695 Everyone needs to be respected-and be respectful.
@@p.hearting9992 Yes! 🥰
@@dave23024 My daughter is thinking of following in the family tradition and becoming a teacher.
This year we have kindergarteners coming in belligerent and back talking, and not even fully potty trained. When a child gets in trouble and we call their parent and says "well mommy will just let me play at home", you see what the problem is. Parents are expecting teachers to raise their children.
1000000% agree!
Society as a whole has failed the next generation on responsibilities, respect, honesty, and etiquette. Too many kids running around without manners and it all comes back to the lazy parents. 💯
This year my oldest is going into kindergarten and I am soooo scared to sending him to school because we have raised him to be honest, respectful, and mindful of his elders. I don’t want him getting other kids bad habits😣 I also don’t want him to be a target for bullies because he is so different in that sense. My son struggles with speech and communication as well, that’s his main issue and we’ve taken him into the doctors office to get referrals but they say it isn’t so bad that he is just slower. But I feel horrible because I know it will be a struggle for the teacher. I brought this issue up back when I started to notice the speech issue when he was 2 and barely spoke no matter how much we prompted him. Sometimes us parents don’t get the support we need for our kids. Also, we aren’t low low income so my kids don’t qualify for early childhood education, we also are not rich so we can’t afford a private tutor. I’m so scared my baby is going to fall through the cracks of the school system.
@@atl1563 I have the exact same problem going on with my sons school- he has a speech difficulty & it all boils down to this teacher shortage. There’s no teachers or staff available to help with kids that need the extra support!
@@user-uv7bk5rk2c yes! And believe me I’ve got books, flash cards, songs, you name it I’ve bought it all in trying to help him learn. I’m trying to help him as much as I can but need the help. Early childhood education is only available for those that meet the poverty guidelines. Or by referral IF they have the space. So when we went to do the testing, we were told basically it’s our fault he wasn’t learning because he is where any normal kid should be 😩 and I’m so stunned I can’t even say a word. My husband speaks very little English so he thought they said we are doing all we can to help him 🤦♀️ not that we aren’t doing enough to help him. I looked into private tutoring and it would at best be $75/1 hour session. They also recommended this 2-3 times a week to start for at least 2 hours a session. So $450 a week. We love our kids so my husband and I started working overtime to pay for this but even with my overtime we kept falling short because if you earn more you get taxed more. And we felt like we were abandoning our kids and missing out on a lot of family time. I appreciate teachers because they are trained for teaching and have a special way of connecting with kids that not everyone has.
Offer teachers HOUSING. Especially the larger school districts. It's inexcusable that teachers quit simply because they cannot afford to live in the district where they teach.
They should make enough money to choose where they want to live 😉
No
That’s actually a great idea 👍
That’s 100% correct.
No,that is for illegal immigrants.
I honestly think teachers should be paid more, not only because of how important this job is to our society, but also considering the amount of BS and silliness they have to take from some of their students. All teachers deserve a raise.
They should get hazard pay.
nothing useful is taught after elementary school. we have too many teachers really
Not just student but also parents…
@@XJ9sodypop really? Because I absolutely use all of the higher math and computer skills I learned in high school in my career (mental health care, planning on getting my PhD at some point which requires that base knowledge), as well as the science knowledge I have and the reading/writing skills I learned. I use much of those things every day. Sure, if you want every kid to graduate and become a burger flipper at McDonald's, go for it, but even the cashier needs math skills from middle school, and if you want to continue having doctors, lawyers, hell even mechanics and electricians, kids need at LEAST a high school education, almost always much more.
Just because you don't have a job that requires skill doesn't mean that the rest of us don't.
A half a years work.........seriously, they are OVERPAID. Look at their results. US public school students are pathetic. Why do you think we need to import engineers, programmers, doctors etc?
See how replaceable teachers are? Instead of increasing their pay and benefits, they’re willing to replace them with Un-certified individuals to teach our kids. An atrocity. SMH
I'm curious as to why anyone would think that unlicensed and untrained individuals will be lining up to replace teachers who are quitting due to low pay and unsustainable workloads. Until they address why teachers are leaving in droves, nothing will be accomplished and things will go from bad to worse.
That's NOT happening NOBODY WANTS TO TEACH!! Temp workers are not the answer either.
@@fvfr6294 and why does nobody want to teach? Could it be the low pay and disrespect towards the profession?
All of the above. Low pay. Poor support. UNGODLY CHILDREN!
@@fvfr6294 you probably shouldn't be teaching
Being a teacher doesn't pay enough to cover the cost of living and students in many schools are becoming aggressive and dangerous. Are you good at dodging furniture, fists and scissors while de-escalating a situation? Parents are becoming uncivilized too. On top of that, you have to manage 45 to 60 students packed in one room instead of 28, because of a teacher shortage. So your workload is crushing, and now you have dozens of kids who refuse to put away their cell phones during class.
Yes at this point with all the chaos and disastrous mess with teacher shortage, its really unmanageable and an unrealistic working environment, now it’s more about being a babysitter babysitting bad behavior then being a teacher, teaching the lessons and educating kids supposedly hired for.
Don’t forget bullets. My mother, a MS teacher, got shot in the leg because of a student. She quit … no job is worth your life.
@@sarahjames927 Sad to hear, how is she now ? Hope she's doing well
Heres an idea, if you dont like your job quit , theyll always be somebody ready to replace you
@@geekedmaxx way to miss the point, dude.😐
Watch any teacher talk on CZcams & they all say that a MAJOR REASON why they’re so STRESSED & deciding it’s no longer worth it to keep teaching is because ADMINS AREN’T BACKING UP THE TEACHERS OR RESPECTING THE TEACHERS.
YES! Admin. really could be the saving grace in all of this...if they want to be. But most admin. are in love with their own power and have an uncanny buddy relationship with parents, so it's always two against one for the teachers when it comes to the "adults" in the room. Plus, as a former classroom teacher, I was actually let go of teaching positions at schools where the students and their parents LIKED ME AS THEIR TEACHER. But because the egomaniacal administrators above me couldn't see clearly, they decided to fire me because they woke up on the wrong side of the bed one morning. They never told me why they let me go no matter how much I fought to get answers out of them. My former students and their parents were devastated when they found out from me when passing me by walking down the street at random moments that I had been fired in each of those circumstances. When admin. don't care, they just don't care.
THIS! and the pay is barely enough to pay rent for most one bedroom apartments… it’s simply not ok.
@@munimathbypeterfelton6251 Would never teach without union backing. That's all so unfair...been at it 28 years and can hardly stand to get out of the car.
As a teacher I feel compelled to tell teacher practitioners to consider other careers as they are finishing their teaching degree. Starting the school year with class-size Above 30, no school supplies and a crappy salary way under the national level is seriously braking me after 12 years in the system. I’m always overworked, tired and burned out. Our social construct is messed up! There seems to be a collaborate census telling us we are not worth as much as an engineer or a paralegal even though a college degree cost is just as much…
Teachers have been relegated to glorified babysitters. The children also have all the rights. Any type of discipline is frowned upon.
The engineers work 245 a year and not 185.
@@jenalatz3589 Yeah, but engineers don't have to work overtime for free the way teachers do. And engineers are on much higher-level year-round salaries, whereas teachers are only paid peanuts during the actual school year and not the summer months at all.
@@munimathbypeterfelton6251 why would you get paid in summer if you're off
@@kimberlygarrett1485 Technically, teachers (unlike students) don't have the summer off. Teachers have to revise and create new curricula for the following school year by requirement in accordance with the always-changing academic standards imposed by the local state and federal governments--entirely unpaid. Teachers also have to attend professional development workshops by requirement over the summer--also entirely unpaid. And since teachers still have to pay rent and put food on the table during the summer months, they may have to earn that necessary income by working seasonal hourly wage jobs (another professional factor of teachers and teaching as a career that occurs during the course of the regular school year due to their miserable salaries).
She had 200 students and had to take on a waitressing job. Somethings wrong with that.
AND she was doing taxes for non-profits. Holy cow
Or hear me out ..... you pay them a living wage. SHOCKER!!!!
better idea. get rid of all the illegal students in our classrooms
@@davidlee8303 They’re mostly first gen kids not illegal kids.
Don't be surprised if you start getting teachers from overseas. When parents refuses to discipline their kids and continue to disrespect an adult, this is bound to happen. Not to mention the low salary and support they receive from the school. If you're a teacher right now, I just want to say thank you.
I think in some places this is what they want. This system doesn't want to pay US citizens with appropriate salaries and/or living wages plus benefits.
Already happening.
I was top of scale and new to my district. Forced out so they could bring in an international teacher for half my salary.
@@jeng1395
I am a teacher and I was willing to move to the USA to teach … but no. It looks like it is a nightmare over there. 😮
What did you all expect?? You pay them like a below average profession to do an above average job. AN IMPORTANT JOB!!! Then now parents want to dictate everything Teachers should teach like they know more about education. SO GUESS WHAT? HOME SCHOOL YOUR KIDS!!! you brought this on yourselves... I wish I could dictate where my tax money went.
What's so wrong with paying teachers what they're really worth???
That’s socialism bruther
That is not going to fix the gigantic problems. Terribly behaved kids and parents who do not parent is a big part of why it's so bad.
@@DarkPassenger Did you ever consider that it might be the low pay and overbearing workload that causes teachers to not teach their best? Honestly, were you paying attention at all? Our education system is pathetic because it is federally underfunded and the pay is not worth the immense stress for many, especially with covid on top of it. If the US would stop pouring all it's money into the military and instead into education, maybe our kids would be less set up to be depressed tiktok zombies. Side note, kids are also screwed because nobody knows how to parent either!
Women aren’t meant to get paid properly…
@@nothereyetlost He's just throwing buzzwords out there.
well first of all maybe the pay and dealing with disrespectful kids & school shootings are becoming popular so thats why
You nailed it.
Right! I couldn’t agree more. These teachers live in fear and are under paid
I like how you say popular like every school in america gets shot up regularly
It’s not the kids, it’s the underfunding under supporting system
czcams.com/video/9qAgmpX6c4U/video.html
It might be good to shift towards a Finnish style of education which requires funding and support.
I think the shootings were the last straw. Anyone can endure the mental abuse. But when your life is on the line, you’re already fucked
No student is surprised we have grown up watching our teachers struggle for years and nothing has ever gotten better because their struggle is normalized and downplayed
So true 👍
Former teacher here 🙋🏼♀️. Back in school for engineering now.
Sad
Good for you
Nice!
Best wishes!
I have so much respect for teachers. They do something I can't do and wouldn't want to. Hats off to them! They're literally with our kids sometimes more in a day then us when we have to work. They help shape our kids outside of the home as well. My kids have been blessed with the best teachers
They make over 3,000 a month they will be alright
@@geezycity7558hi. I have friends, a stepsister and a sister in law that are teachers and honestly they make pretty decent money they don't complain.
@@geezycity7558 where tf do you live where 3000 a month is enough
@@eddievazquez5260 Georgia!! My rent is 750 a month 3 bedroom 2 bath
@@geezycity7558 ahhhh... that's why
I left teaching because of the unrealistic expectations. Salary was great, but the burden on teachers to become pseudo parents to students is too much.
It's emotionally draining and every day I felt defeated.
That's hilarious! All this talk about how it takes a village to raise a child, but when gets down to it nobody wants the job.
Too worried about standardized test scores to teach anything that actually mattered and that kids got excited about.
This is how I currently feel :( and it’s my second year teaching
Having to practice Detachment, in order to be less exhausted when I leave. I had to learn to stop reacting. Just keep them active, happy, and safe, and you will find the students and you both are calmer and more productive. 28 years in.....5th grade
Yeah I tried being a teacher for one year and I HATED IT. Never ever again but so grateful and amazed by teachers.
Duh? They act like they don't know why good teachers leave the profession.
Exactly. So what's really going on? Yes, some are genuinely clueless; you'd be amazed at how high up some people are able to advance without understanding much of their field or what's going on around them. But the majority know exactly why. They know that most of what they're doing now is like putting a band-aid on a gunshot wound. There must be a reason so few school districts are unwilling/unable to solve the root causes of the present problem.
All teachers should strike until they get fair pay and free supplies. Let parents deal with their own kids and listen to them complain like they did with the during the pandemic.
@@lorizeimet1192 My question is, are UNION schools having the same problem?
@@lorizeimet1192 everyone will suffer but the lower class will suffer the most. However if that's what it takes, then that's what it takes.
@CarFreak how am I unaffected? EVERYONE is affected by this.
Oklahoma did a strike in 2018, classes were cancelled while the teachers went to the capital and nothing came out of it.
@@vanesamacias7202 you didn’t strike long enough. You also have to get everyone on board. I promise you, after two weeks of no school, they will start talking. After one month, they will give in. What are all those parents going to do when their kids are at home and they can’t work? They will disrupt the economy and things will move.
This country is such a failure. My god. There truly is no excuse!
Other countries are surpassing us in education. We're the laughing stock of the world.
I quit teaching because I saw different teachers have a nervous breakdown every day for a week …I was like I’m not going to completely lose my mental health …dueces im out ✌🏾
That's why I quite being a para this spring.
What specifically was harming your mental health? Large class sizes? High-stakes testing?
@@JW-uy2on Kinder teacher here. Specifically, it is bad kids with no repercussions for their actions.
You say you saw teachers having nervous breakdowns. For the folks at home, could you describe to them what you saw?
Instead of offering bonuses and incentives to anyone with a pulse and a desire regardless of qualifications, how about taking all the money that would be spent on that nonsense and just pay current, qualified, certified, experienced teachers a decent salary?
The salary is not the main problem. The problem is ungodly children with no repercussions for their actions.
I’m a teacher going into year 8. Last year was it for me. Kid brought a weapon to school, nothing happened to him. They do not discipline at all.
THATS MY WHOLE ENTIRE POINT!!!
The kids are maniacs and they literally have all the freedom and no restraint
They can literally do anything and there’s no consequence
All teachers should leave
Parents don’t want to raise their kids and want to put the responsibility on the teacher
No
F that
Democrats run the entire school system and they don’t believe in any discipline in any sector of life.
The real question is, what did the parents do??? I agree the school should have done something but at the end of the day discipline starts at home.
Like,,, a fire arm or like a knife? Because i know alot of kids carried pocket knives if they walked home.
Kids and parents have all the power. I’m a former teacher, who won’t even go back to the classroom as a substitute.
If things don't improve significantly on the whole in American education by the end of this school year, don't expect in-person schooling to exist in 2023-2024 and beyond.
Yes and kids academics are going to suffer even more and be even further behind. Kids can’t do remote learning, they needs hands on. but that is where technology suppose to take it too, online. Unfortunately kids nowadays also don’t catch onto things as quick as past generations. Teaching two lessons a month is unacceptable, but that is where the kids level is at nowadays.
exactly! and the ones suffering are our children. the teachers can find other jobs elsewhere but some kids can't go anywhere else for school, some can get homeschooled but not all. something definitely needs to change soon!
This is a mess. Covid-19 really catalyzed so many problems, and our economy took such a big hit when everyone bought toilet paper and couldn’t work. They can’t pay our teachers properly. It’s truly come to this? Virtual schooling indefinitely :((( I hope my Gen Z and our Gen Alpha can make it through this. We can not move backwards in improving our society. We need our teachers so bad. And we need our schooling in person. Virtual just doesn’t work for children the same way it can for a college student. I wish there was a way we could help.
I think that is the plan
good. kick these activists out. shut down the indoctrination camps
In my school district, teachers would leave because of how the students treated them.
I think that's the case in most districts.
Yes and there are districts where there are separate expectations for certain students and more relaxed expectations of others... equity at work
Here's an idea, offer more pay and discipline the kids. have actual consequences for their actions as well as their parents.
F that
It’s fun!
Agree 💯%, schools and the DOE let parents run over them. That’s the problem. As long as that happens, discipline and consequences for disruptive behavior won’t happen.
Yes,and give up pretending the woke crap is factual.
Lmfaoo your asking a school district that provides a service to parents to discipline them ? Lol if anything teachers need to do there job and help kids if they cant do it quit, theres millions of other people ready to apply
I taught 1 year and I had a student in my class who did not follow 1 single rule. She wouldn't do any work, she would climb furniture, she destroyed my property, and she would hit and bite other students. I was too busy trying to keep her from hurting herself or others to even get through a lesson. Despite me complaining to the office over and over and over again for months they just let me struggle through it. One morning I came in ready to quit because I wasn't willing to get charged or sued if anybody got hurt in my class. They must have sensed I was ready to quit because that same morning they removed her from my class. I sub now and unfortunately it wasn't an isolated situation. I see this all the time.
Did she have an IEP or a diagnosis of some kind? If she did, that pretty much gave her free reign to act that way.
@@blugreen123 I suspect she was on the spectrum but she was not diagnosed. It was 1st grade so there was no way they would assess her yet. It was unfortunate for everyone including her.
I'm so sorry that you had to go through that awful hell!!😢😢
@@blugreen123 That is equity gone amuck, no single student should be allowed to cause such havoc...sad. Those are the situations the teachers union should address instead of pushing woke ideology.
She’s so badass. Imagine being this chaotic. She would’ve killed everyone in that room I can guarantee u
I remember when my high school teacher told me she’s able to continue pursuing her passion of teaching because her husband earns decent income. She told me there’s no way she can afford costs of living if she was the only breadwinner
I retired from teaching in Texas. High school. Loved the kids. Loved most of my fellow teachers. Hated the bureaucracy and the silly “best new ..whatever program..we all had to learn about. Hated the dog & pony show we had to stage every time somebody from “head office” appeared. Most of all, hated being told in millions of subtle ways, those who can, do; those who can’t do, teach. The day I walked out of that school, I vowed never to let my shadow cross another school threshold. There are millions of us out there.
My heart goes out to teachers especially middle to high school. I have zero patience for nasty, disrespectful attitude’s🤦🏾♀️
I teacher elementary, but I wouldn’t even dream of setting foot in a middle or high school. I’d rather be a classified staff or work in another field than do that.
Elementary kids are at least manageable.
Last year I left my teaching job after 12years of dedication to my students and family at same school. When I left I cried. My children and their parents and my boss cried. It was so heartbroken. It wasn't because I stopped love teaching but because of the exhaustion from everything since the pandemic. The constant struggle of losing new teachers and training new teachers and other hopeless factors... it was a really hard decision to make but it was necessary for my personal mental and physical health. I wish there is a big change for this field soon because the children and the teachers all deserve better!
I feel bad for teachers that actually love their job but feel like they have no choice but to find another profession. I was a paraprofessional for four years and until you sit in a classroom day in and day out for a full school year you can't grasp the full scope of what all teachers deal with. Low pay, no supplies, bad kids, absent kids, beligerant parents, slow academic children, ESL students, difficult staff, demanding principals, kids fending for themselves because parents have to work, I can go on but it's definitely not worth the pay or headache they get dealing with your little angels all day.
@Brown Skin Beauty
What’s sad is that all the good sweet students who want to learn have to suffer when teachers have to spend their time and energy on badly behaved brats. It’s basically a babysitting job.
teaching is a VERY hard field to "stay in" long term... the burnout is just too severe
Everything about this is absolutely true from my experiential point of view. I was a teacher for 17 years and loved it until I didn’t. I left burned out.
How about this incentive: Offer teacher housing plus salary. That ought to do it. Oh, and teach children respect for teachers not the opposite.
No. Teachers housing should not be tied to their job. That never goes well for anyone except the Boss/landlord. Its already hard enough that health insurance is is strictly tied to jobs, especially in a field dominated by women who aren't always allowed to change providers easily (like if pregnant). Would you want your boss to not only have control of your income and your healthcare but now also the roof over your head? Pay teachers like they pay literally everyone else.... With cash, and enough of it to buy a house or at least rent a decent apartment so they dont need 2+ roommates.
this would be a GREAT way to attract younger generations into the teaching profession since the younger generation struggles the most to afford housing
@@diamondsaphire3444A community hospital in So California built beautiful houses on a hill overlooking the ocean...prime real estate. Only hospital workers are allowed to purchase said property and the purchase price is based on income. They held a lottery. Doctors, nurses and custodians who won the lottery were able to purchase their own home at an affordable price. Something like that would be nice for teachers.
My comp sci teacher was offered a debt paid off
This is what happens when you keep cutting public funding. Oh and also keeping some of that money into admins' pockets
It’s a combination of low pay, burnout, lazy parents and the politics of school administrations 🤷🏿. It’s sad that teachers are not respected like they should be.
The next generation is only going to know tiktok & going viral smh 🤦♀️
That was the plan all along. Will be easier for China to enslave them all come 2050.
You are not exaggerating.
Yep, a generation of illiterates running the country. Everyone will have a TikTok account.
When I was teaching high school, I was appalled by the administration's embracing of technology...like encouraging kids to use their phones for assignments. It's such a joke. There's no resistance. Imagine teaching a class of high schoolers all with their phones out. It was a complete waste of time, and because the school had no policy restricting phone use, I had no recourse.
Yep!
Teachers don't want to live in poverty.
Nor do they want to be bullied by kids, parents, administrators, and politicians.
The average teacher pay in Ohio is 53,000 not too bad since they work 185 days.
they make more than the average worker in the USA and work a lot less days.
@@davehart9972 Sure, if you look at it from a surface level. But I usually work until around 7 or 8pm at night grading, lesson planning, parent phone calls and meetings etc. Usually my day is 12+ hours. Also, a lot of teachers work summers and have many obligations outside of just the 8am-3:30pm school day. I’d say for the amount of mental, emotional, and physical work teachers are severely underpaid. Barely paid enough to rent a one bedroom apartment which shouldn’t be ok.
They get every weekend off, holidays off, frequent breaks, summers off, and get paid pretty well in my opinion. Most can also get paraprofessionals to help grade papers etc. Both my sisters are teachers and work really hard but my mom made way less as a nurses aid and had back breaking work with barely any time off and worked every weekend. I admit all the times I worked in schools it can be exhausting dealing with kids (and I homeschool now so it is a lot of work teaching kids) but they are not suffering as much as they say they are.
I taught for 16 years in DC Public Schools. Left the profession 10 years ago. There is NO amount of money anyone can pay me to teach again.
Amen, sister.
Same here!
Never working in a school again. There is no point. Such a stressful experience. 😫 No No No!
I have friends and family members who are teachers in elementary school. One common denominator I heard is that the parents don’t discipline their kids. They treat school like a day care center. Teachers have to put up with their kids and the parents.
I don’t hear this at the community college level. I just finished my mba degree and want to teach business at a CC but I am having a hard time getting a job. I definitely don’t want to teach middle school or HS.
you better get the PHD to teach at a CC lol
They discipline them but kids are gomna be kids , also school is like a day care if you think about it because the kids are at school for 7 to 8 hours a day , also stop blaming the parents at the end of the day teachers provide a service for the parents, if they dont like it then quit , your not special and theres thousands of people ready to apply for a job and replace you
💯 accurate. Lottie kids hit. Punch grab. Scream in your face. It’s crazy.
They don't have this problem in community college or university because:
1. The students are there voluntarily because they want an education, whereas most K-12 students who cause trouble don't want to be in school in the first place.
2. Colleges won't put up with the obnoxious student behavior that school teachers have to tolerate. They have no problem expelling people for those things. If you fail a course, that's your problem, not theirs.
@@sexygeek8996 yes. And when I worked junior high the tolerance for bad behavior is too high. We let kids bring drugs to school they get off with warning. Next offense maybe detention. Next offense they show up to school high and disrupt. You would think it would Be like a 3 strike rule BUT NO. I don’t get it at all.
I don’t blame her
Teaching is not what it used to be
🤦♂️
Families aren't what they use to be either. Maybe it wasn't a good idea to remove dad out of the family unit.
@@kimberlygarrett1485 Broken families mean broken children
@@tenossos It sure does, and teachers can't fix them. Despicable that it has been done on purpose.
Teachers don't want to leave. It's not worth it anymore.
They may not want to leave their profession, but they are indeed leaving. It is impossible to do this job without it being tremendously stressful.
I had a professor who told me that when she entered the field, her starting salary was 31k back in the late 90s and now the starting salary is around 40k. Factor in inflation is 80% higher now than in '98, and you'll see that teachers are making way less than they used. This is absurd, teachers deserve better than this!
If they're hiring fireman and just anybody, then doesn't that mean that the teacher doesn't need the credentials anymore?
Experienced, trained teachers create more and deeper learning in students.
Who wants to teach a bunch of self entitled brats with self entitled parents?
America... First world country and yet teachers are paid a low wage???
In Sweden, teachers are paid high salaries. This is disgusting.
In South Africa, I received a bursary to study teaching. I receive a housing subsidy, birthday bonus and a decent salary. 😊
America doesn’t care
Thats because you dont know thw true history of teaching. Black women/men began schooling
The US is basically mexico with English speakers. It's not been a first world country since the 1980s
A lot of folks have been pooping on educators and telling them to either take it or walk ? Guess what , they walked. Now we have to live with the consequences.
Educators never take a walk, they just retire. Teachers are college graduates, many with master's degrees. Did you think they were stupid? Did you really think they were going to walk away from a cop's pension?
And exactly what consequences will we be forced to live with? Last time I checked the Earth was still spinning on its axis, the sky was still blue, and the birds were still chirping happily in the trees.
I loved my students, I was a firm believer in education. Here's why I lift education.
1. Lack of a living wage. After all the time to get my degree, the hours of continued education, countless sacrifices made for OTHER PEOPLES CHILDREN. My wife, who works at a grocery store makes more than I did.
2 The public. Do any of you parents truly understand the sacrifices teachers make everyday for your kids? To watch one of your kids go down a dark path, to know it is the parents' influence pushing them that direction and to be powerless to stop any of it. The hate you parents had for us doing the best we could during the pandemic. Look I get being stressed out, but who do you people think you are.
3 the dumbing down of our nation. As a history teacher. The lessons of the past are my bread and butter. Across all demographics, in every region. There has been a systematic dumbing down of the coming generations. While I have my theories, not stating them here. It is very obvious to the initiated, that this is occurring. An under educated population is easier to manipulate and control. But are more prone to violence.
We get treated like disposable, incompetent frauds. Too many kids have absolutely no respect or work ethic. Then, the pay…
If you have to work 2 jobs to make ends meet as a college graduate why would you become a teacher? As has been mentioned in the comments section, teachers are undervalued and treated like babysitters in some school districts. Suddenly homeschooling is starting to look appealing again.
Military housing sucks… can’t imagine what government housing for teachers would look like 😅
In a school district where I live, theres at least fifteen teachers who teach four different subjects throughout the day and act more like substitutes than actual teachers, even though they are not substitutes. Its simply just because there aren't enough teachers
Good! If you don’t ban assault weapons, secure schools and increase Teachers salary then you don’t deserve Teachers. A friend used to be teaching and she never had personal time. After school she would still be working.
@Yummy Spaghetti Noodles What are you doing with a military grade weapon as a regular civilian though? Can’t you defend yourself just as well with a glock or another type of non-assault gun? The best of both worlds are in that- assault style weapons are out of the hands of civilians without retracting their 2nd amendment rights.
Exactly.
I got my degree in education last year, and quit before school started. My degree was in secondary education for science, but the school I got hired for kept changing the subject they wanted me to teach during PD in July (first Algebra 3, then Algebra 2, and finally decided on Algebra 3 and Geometry at the same time). Once I finally knew what I was teaching, I didn't even have a full week to study Algebra 3 and Geometry so that I could make good lesson plans! They gave me my classroom the weekend before school started, and the desks/tables/boards were falling apart. They wanted me to come out of my own pocket to replace anything, but wouldn't pay me until the end of August. If they want to fix the teacher shortage, then they need to help teachera be able to teach instead of make it more difficult
We need to help teachers and not only pay them more but also please remind your children to RESPECT their instructors they give so much and it cannot be stated how important it is
I went to both private and public schools growing up in the 90’s and early 2000’s… The discipline, respect, pay and standards are completely night and day difference. In private, we literally have the fear of God put in us and our parents defended and stood with the teachers when there were behavior problems. In public, well you know how it goes.
It all comes down to the trifecta: parents working with teachers working with students. A triangle is a very stable shape. If we can get that right in public school we can have the same quality of student.
But parents backing up students being rude need to go.
@@Schaemia 💯 agree!
And yet, this person being interviewed switched to public school after two years teaching in private (charter). Why? Because the pay, altho pitiful even then, was better than private school pay.
The problem for me is finding a secular private school. I wouldn't want my kids being forced to say Catholic prayers in the morning
@@splitliving The pay is substantially higher in public schools. My dad's wife taught in private schools over 25 years and never hit 60k, and that's in California. Her salary would be approx. 45% higher in my school district. She now teaches for one of our Indian (casino) reservation districts and is thrilled to make $70,000 at year 32. Nope.
As one that has already left the school system. Good. Trust me it's a hard break up. And hard shift in career. And I know the feeling sucks, we all cry, I did, but good. It is a very needed move. It is a healthy move and it is wrong of the system to use the kid's future as an emotional hostage. Trust me, you'll find something and that "teacherness" (not a word, but teacher understand the feeling) will always be with you. You'll find you don't need to be in a school in teaching and help younger gen grow. Again, just from experience.
There is missing staff EVERYWHERE. Those teachers found better employment with better pay, more respect and NO crazy elected officials to FORCE them to lie, or change history and reality to fit a lunatic personal notion of what the world SHOULD act and think like.
You decided NOT to have a public infrastructure. Here is the result.
Bill Gates and company told us the plan for the world population and if they do a really good job with vaccines they can achieve this goal. Most of the teachers have been fully injected so many of them have been planted in the ground and are 6 feet under.
Amen!
Yup! It's not just teacher's leaving,
Raise your hand if you want a job that requires you to live in constant fear of being politicized, where you have to spend your own meager wages for supplies and where you have lockdown drills in case somebody wants to shoot up your workplace, not to mention all of the extra years of postgraduate study and state licensing tests that you have to pay for and pass just to get into the profession. Those same people are smart enough to get jobs in tech making five times as much salary from the comfort of their homes.
I am preparing to leave in the next few weeks. Sixteen years of my life spent on this career and I’m burned out. Best of luck in the future.
Teachers should earn 6 figures! The amount of stress 😩 we endure is ridiculous and unnecessary. Tired of people saying "well they have summers off". Uhhh no we don't!!!! We make up for it throughout the year. I know alot of teachers who work +50 hrs/week. There's also mandatory training, after school meetings etc etc Not to mention the amount of money we spend on our classrooms and students smh I LOVE my students dearly. Every single one of them. I just hate how we are not compensated for our hard work. Teacher are leaving because of the crappy salaries. End of story!
I earn low six-figures out here in California at 28 years, but as a twice-divorced, single father, I still live basically month to month. No savings, don't currently own a home. Just trying to hang in for the "full-retirement" only 1 in 5 teachers end up making it to. Our district is fighting for our first raise in a long time as we speak.
The reason......... who wants to stay in a profession where it is now acceptable to be disrespected by students and their parents for low wages.... using your personal funds for ungrateful students.....
Interesting how any shortage for any industry is blamed on the worker - when in reality the worker isn't paid properly and in many cases, like teachers, have to spend their own money in order to do their job (like school supplies).
we need to fund schools, fully. if educated kids and people scares you, you’re the problem.
It’s not right that a professional teacher take on a second job. Teachers prepare our future, their pay NEEDS to increase already.
My school struggled horribly with being understaffed last year. To resolve the issue, they included a $10,000 teacher retention bonus into our contracts which will be added to our base pay. The first payment will be issued after the first 30 days of employment, then another one in December, and the third payment on the last paycheck of the school year. This is the route that school districts need to be taking instead of hiring unqualified teachers in my opinion. Doing so will likely only cause more stress to the teachers since they will likely not be experts in their content areas and more stress on the school districts and states since testing scores will probably decrease. Wising everyone a safe and successful school year!
We need qualified school board members who are educated not MAGA extremist who want to turn our public schools into indoctrination centers of right wing Christian ideology (unconstitutional) instead of facts and just education.
It’s not just the pay. There are a lot of other factors that are causing people to leave the profession.
When I was a teacher I could barely pay bills. I enjoyed working with the students.
I went into teaching this year and am absolutely miserable. The disrespect I encounter every single day and I’m just supposed to take it and accept that “they’re just kids.”
I work 12-14 hour shifts every day, I am barely am even able to teach content in my classroom, and I deal with behaviors every single day.
I’m underpaid and overworked. I have anxiety and stress and think about quitting my job every single day.
What also doesn't help is that, depending on where you are, some schools aren't hiring people for full-time positions unless they have a license, which requires either part-time or full-time experience of up to one academic year, amongst other requirements. I'm currently a substitute teacher with a BA in History, and I've applied to full-time positions, only to get rejected because I'm unable to qualify for the position. As of right now, I'm hoping that after a year or two of subbing, I can qualify for a provisional license that will allow me to get a full-time position.
I was told by a member of my family that my situation resembles a "catch-22", which is a difficult circumstance from which there is no escape because of mutually conflicting or dependent conditions - sounds about right, all things considered.
Edit: I just want to say, in regard to a lot of comments saying that teachers should get paid more - I would like to add that this should include subs too. We're an important resource for teachers, taking up their role in their classrooms when they can't do so. You ever tried teaching a class long-term when their full-time teacher was fired for disorderly conduct? I have, and while it was tough as hell and incredibly testing, I did my very best for those kids and would gladly do it again if given the chance.
Look at criteria in various states. Move to an easier state.
If they want to recruit and retain good teachers, they need to pay them six figures. For real.
I’m an education major at UMIAMI and honestly it’s terrifying
find a job at a religious private school
Religious Private schools actually pay less because they’re struggling to stay open. I was an intern in one and they had to do a lot of fundraising all year long.
Don't do it!
Stop now! Change majors. Do NOT teach. Do NOT be stupid or naive enough to think you will be the one to be "successful" if you try/work hard enough. Please, I am begging you. Even if you have to stay longer at university to complete a different major, do it. There is no hope in teaching and your best chance of getting a high paying career happens when you are young. So many doors slam shut beyond your 20's. Please, please, please. I'm a 35 year teaching veteran and these past 10 years were/are hell.
@@yaakovlasson2485 And be paid less than nothing and expected to be a martyr! Um, not better!!!!
Teachers are the key to us students to learn and achieve greater things.
They are there to teach you, achievement is up to you.
Why not just work any job? Learn yourself. We don’t need teachers. Teachers need us
@@kimberlygarrett1485 duh 😒 with out teaching how will you ever achieve anything everyone has to learn something in life.
@@LilXancheX 😆 good luck working at construction 🦺 bro your body will be done within a few years ask anyone who’s work in that field if they don’t suffer physical conditions due to high demand physical labor. We can’t all get on CZcams or Tik Tok and try to make money 💴 that way . Some of us want to actually have a life and not have are whole world revolve around a computer 💻 or phone screen. Teachers are there to help us and teach us basic things just like are parents are there to teach us the basics in being a responsible and hard working person.
Like when you realize health care workers, engineers , streamers, sports players make more money it's really dis heartening.
My father taught school for years (70’s throughout 2001). He quit because he knew what was coming. He couldn’t of been more right. Back then, when a teacher told a student he or she was punished, the parents would side with the teacher. Now everything is backwards. Kids don’t have respect for their elders and the parents assume it’s the teachers fault when they don’t realize it’s the way they taught their kids to be. I didn’t even know about when I was in school until after I got out in 2014.
Edit: Could be the other solutions explained in the comments but that’s just my opinion.
Canceling the multi-billion dollar football programs would be a great start. When my parents started teaching in the early sixties, housing was supplied. Let's do that too
This has been a decades long issue- Public Schools have been under attack, held to surreal standards with less community and state support.
Bring back discipline in the schools. Respect your teachers. Start having them teach kids how to think, not what to think. Pay in some areas is bad and not bad in others. Fix that. When it comes to parent issues, administrators need to back their teachers when their right and correct them when they're wrong. Don't throw your hands up like you don't know what's going on. Do all of those things and you'll end the teacher shortage.
As someone, who benefited from phenomenal teachers, I am deeply troubled by this video clip. As a society, what does the low salary and educator morale say about how we value teachers? Every aspect of the U.S. and global economy stands upon education as a foundation. If we continue to underinvest in our children's elementary and high school education, heaven help this nation and world. To Congress, state legislatures, counties, and municipalities: "Do better!!!! Provide adequate salaries to teachers." If we can value other professionals enough such that they earn six figures per year, certainly we can equally value the elementary and high school teachers who lay the foundation for these professionals to build, grow, and achieve.
speech therapist, accountant, EBT, nurses, police officers, aren't making 6 figures
Here’s a answer: increase salary with cost of inflation(the actual rate) and cost of living.
It is realistic for that teacher to say pick something else. I wish I could shout it from the rooftops. The exodus is causing the people to look harder at compensation, voice, and working conditions. It’s what we need.
Teachers need to be subsidized financially by the government, in terms of special financial exclusions for people who mold our future generation I have nothing but respect for teachers.
Great idea
Teachers are quitting because they are consistently disrespected by children, parents, and principals. We are tired of the useless paperwork that districts require, that takes hours to do, and no one looks at it. The pandemic put kids 2 school years behind academically and behaviorally. This is burning me out. I feel like I'm teaching 1st graders, but I'm teaching 3rd graders. Children climbing on desks and chairs, talking while I'm teaching, yelling at each other, hitting each other, having each other inappropriately, swearing, and can't even write their own name. It's pretty gross right now. I've been wanting to quit for 2 years. I thought it would get better this year, since kids spent a whole year in an actual classroom. It hasn't! My sanity is worth quitting this mess!
@Man with Silverado they are not. Quit listening to the hype. Think for yourself. Go into a classroom and find out what we are teaching.
Haha...you just made me feel a little better. I teach 3rd grade too, I'm experiencing everything you described. Talking, standing up from their chairs for no reason, they do not get along with each other. As long as I know the system needs me more than I need them, I'm good. They can't even threaten me with getting fired now, haha that will just push me to do something else.
I left the last school I was at because they treated me and the special education students I worked with like complete garbage. 😅 Now this year I'm working at a small specialist school. Fingers crossed because it's a private school so, no union benefits but there's other benefits.
Public transportation bus drivers get way more pay than teachers so its pretty difficult to want to go to college just to get lower pay than a bus driver.
You do realize teachers are unionized. The unions who give them s*** for pay🤦
@@Upper-cr1kh The unions don't pay them. They simply negotiate contracts with the local school districts, which are at the mercy of state funding and local taxes. Districts in wealthier communities with a higher tax base have more money to spend.
@@ga6589 if the union is negotiating the contract don't you think that the union is paying them 🤦 you are that special kind of dumb 💯🤣
It's disgusting that the people we trust to educate the next generation get treated like crap.
Well maybe they’ll come to their sense when the teacher shortage gets extremely out of hand to the point where parents now have to homeschool their own kids.
nah. Just raise their wages and there won't be a shortage
No
Kids ain’t disciplined
Nobody tryin to go to work preparing for a shooting cuz some kid was mad someone joked on his shoelaces
Bye
Nope, nope, and nope some more. It is not just about money.
@@jillsalkin7389 It probably would really help most teachers have to take on 2nd jobs just to make ends meat. To me being a teacher is one of those jobs where unless you really love it, you're not gonna do it.
In a nut shell I blame Republicans on there war on teachers I wish they have that same energy on bad policing in America
Parents need to back up the teachers As well- they send their bad ass kids to school & when they’re made aware of the horrendous behavior in the classroom, they will either defend/make excuses for their little crotch demons, or brush it off as “kids being kids.” The kids learn to walk all over the teachers (or anybody in authority really) over time. My kids know, getting in trouble at school is just as reprehensible (if not, worse) than getting in trouble at home & that their will be consequences for their actions. The stories my daughter has told me about classmates cussing at the teacher, destroying classroom materials, & being mean to other students makes me want to confront the parents myself- she’s in the second week of kindergarten 🤦♀️
My parents always have told me to fallback as a teacher. Idk how she just learned this. Young people need to learn that you go to school for what makes money, not for happiness. After you make money, you can spend it on things that bring you temporary happiness, but do not choose temporary happiness now, because there is no money in that. As my father would say, don’t take student loans to pay for your studies in underwater basket weaving. Do something useful and stop wasting time and money. Make money in time. You’ll get your happiness.
A friend went into teaching and wasnt making much on a bachelors. She went back and got her masters and is doing pretty well. It ,may come down to doing 6yrs of college if you want decent pay. Politicians know whats going on but arent doing much about it. The US is spent 20yrs and billions in Iraq and is now sending billions to Ukraine and Taiwan but US education hasnt been nearly as financially bolstered.
I think North Carolina has stoped paying extra for for teachers getting new master's degrees. If you already have one, then you'e grandfathered in for the extra pay. If some one has more accurate information on this, please reply.
What little I've read on this suggests the problem is not so much how much money the federal government is spending on education, but more that a low percentage of it seems to make it to building maintenance, staff salaries, or school supplies.
Out here on the west coast the B.A. & Teaching credential used to be six years alone, then another two a few years later for the Masters, for most of us veterans. Now many colleges offer the "Teaching Degree" Credential + Masters all rolled up in one program.
I'm looking every day for a new job. Teaching is great but sick of being treated like an idiot by admin who are disorganized, disrespectful, and expect all of us to work outside of contract hours to get their stupid projects done
I was a Special Education teacher for 13 years. I left in July 2020 as to the similar reasons that you are describing. The paperwork has become worse over the years. The principal, the Special Education director, and some of the Special Education staff was also the reason that I left. I am currently training to become a financial advisor.
What is crazy for me, is that the young teacher in the beginning said she could no longer afford her rent! Any job should pay enough to cover the rent and basics