Why are so many Texas teachers quitting? | KVUE
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- The Texas Education Agency is expanding its Teacher Vacancy Task Force to find out why so many educators are quitting. KVUE looked at what's driving resignations.
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Bad student behavior and low pay is the problem. Parents need to be more involved with their children and how they behave in the classroom.
Are people aware that spending every day teaching your rugrats is a JOB and NO ONE is going to do it for cheap.
What a joke. Start teachers at 70,000 a year, pay them for extra training, give them enough planning time and end the ridiculous meetings that could be an email.
"and end the ridiculous meetings that could be an email": Thank you. Exactly! I've been in meetings for up to 3 hours about something that barely took up a single page on an A4 piece of paper.
Unfortunately, meeting quotas come from the top. My principal hates them so much that he tries to find ways to cancel them. I love it.
Yeah, the meetings before school and after school are ridiculous. I am trying to find another job.
Instead of wasting money on research, just watch all the "Why I quit teaching" videos. It's the same across the board: Lack of respect from kids parents and admin.
Bingo
I am a teacher and this is symbolism over substance. They will spend big money to have people with fancy degrees and lots of letters behind their name draft reports with cool graphics and big words to tap dance around the obvious and then propose solutions in need of a problem while things continue on their present trajectory. We will then spend hours in some PD with our PLC listening to new en vogue buzzwords that rename old concepts such as rebranding “special education” as specialized differentiated instruction , demanding that we tailor our lessons to each individual student so they can judge our efforts on a one size fits all standardized test THEY created…
AMEN!!
You hit the nail on the head
Student behavior is out of control. There is no consequences for breaking the rules. After 12 years of teaching, I don’t even have my own classroom, I share a portable with another teacher. During my conference period, I don’t have anywhere to go and work on lessons, due to the other teacher teaching a class in my portable.
Start with addressing workplace bullying by campus administrators and teacher cliques. This is an issue in education that shouldn’t be ignored.
And parents
Fight back.staying quiet has never helped.
And the students too.
The press always spouts 'low pay' as the main reason. Negative!
It's about being forced to keep disruptive kids in the class. Unlike the movies, these kids don't get better. Instead, their presence infects the other kids with bad attitudes.
The 'zero tolerance' on bullying policy is more like a slogan. Administration will never suspend or expel bullies, especially if the bully receives special ed services. All BS. We need to be able to kick the bumbs out!
Low pay is also a gigantic reason generally speaking. You have to go to college just so you can becoma a teacher and then you don't earn much more than people without a high school diploma. It's ridiculous
Yes
Austin’s teacher salary is insulting. If it’s going to be little Silicon Valley it needs to at least pay wage that reflects the increase in property taxes and cost of living caused by the influx of California Techies.
Pay and student behavior are my biggest issues. This year will be my second year and I am DONE.
As a teacher, I can fully state that “bad student behavior” and low pay is not what drives us out. We signed on for that. It is the extremist politicians who are trying to control teachers every move that drives us out.
I only partially agree with your statement. I believe when you're in school to become a teacher, you're only seeing the positives. Yes, you can acknowledge the negatives but still you don't realize how much student behavior and low pay will affect you.
Wrong, it is absolutely driven by student behavior.
A LETTER TO SCHOOL AUTHORITIES AND POLICY MAKERS.
To make the school teaching profession more productive and attractive please do the following:
1. The teaching load should not exceed 1000 minutes per week. That means 5 periods of 40 minutes duration per day. The rest of the time is for lesson planning, lesson preparation, marking assignments and tests etc. The total time including this should never exceed 8 hours per day.
2. Teaching should not be treated as a factory job. It is an intellectual job. So work life balance is very much essential.
3. Avoid unnecessary paperworks and data collection. This will distract teachers from their main task and focus area. Most of these types of works were found useless and will decrease the productivity of teachers. Teachers are there to teach and not for doing clerical jobs.
4. Avoid daily detailed lesson plans etc. Those are time consuming. They are alrady trained for that during their teachers training.
5. Avoid micromanagement. Trust the teachers.
6. Pay well at par with other professionals. Quality comes with money.
7. Stop "pleaseing the parents" attitude. They are not educationalists. Stick to the school policy.
8. Unnecessary parental involvement should be discouraged at any cost.
9. When a new system is introduced in a school, do not keep the old system.
10. Most of the lawmakers and policy makers in the education sector were never been teachers. This should not be allowed. Include experts in education at the law making and planning stage. This is a must.
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@@JOkERBIDENenjoy being poor
Have any of these districts across the U.S. ever considered treating teachers with respect, and possibly addressing the bullying behaviors by campus administrators toward teachers?
Low pay, low pay, low pay. TX suburbs and cities are super expensive to live in, and a teacher's salary of 50K to 70K isn't enough to cover the costs. COVID caused kids to already fall behind grade level standards so teachers are playing catchup to get their kids on the curriculum level. Demanding admin, state-level testing, and rude parents also make teachers' jobs very difficult. I remember these problems pre-COVID when I talked to my high school teachers, and the pandemic seems to have made them worse. Finally, safety too. Nothing meaningful has been done to address school shootings. The pandemic already messed up a lot of teenagers' mental health, and the state makes it very easy for a teenager to get a semi-automatic firearm.
TLDR, low pay, low support, and increasingly lower control leading to higher instability of their workplace, not to mention their budget being siphoned off to unnecessary, abusive, paternalistic bureaucrats.
She said all the typical cookie cutter dance around the question responses
In order to get more teachers / substitute teachers into the classroom they need to give these teachers a raise otherwise, they will pursue other higher paying jobs!
TX wonders why?
That's okay.
Abbott will lower the requirements for teachers to 10th grade education and fill all those positions with evangelicals.
Yep there are education professors in Texas advocating that those with AA degrees teach
How many of these schools actually have body scan metal detectors, bulletproof glass to protect the people who have the authority whether or not to buzz someone in after they go ( or ATTEMPT to pass) through the metal detector? Maybe bulletproof glass forthe windows and classroom doors if applicable?And have exit-only doors/gates At at the exterior campus yard boundary (that can only be opened from the inside) if they need to escort/escape their students in case of a fire or a bomb?
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Pay them more!!!
For what to teach kids BS
@@claytonevans5721 Follow a teacher around for a day, and you will see the great job they are doing.
People are so entitled. They think it's a " privilege" to teach their little monsters and teachers should want to do it for a pitiful salary... It's a hard and often miserable job. No one wants to do it for nothing.
@@claytonevans5721 if you have kids they are watching them. Watching kids and teaching them isn't a privilege, it's a job and if you want it done well it has to be paid for.
@@michah321 They shouldn't make more than police offers from the start and if you want to get paid your not going to teach thing's parent's don't want thier kids to know about until they are older how about that !
Teachers are quitting everywhere.
Too much overtime.....you have to bring work home daily.....DAILY to prepare for the following day....weekends you do more paperwork....it never ends it is too consuming of your free personal time....plus you have to pay for things out of your own pocket.....it is a vicious cycle that never ends.
Until you clearly define acceptable school behavior standards for the students (with parental support), and until you can get KIDS to have respect for authority and behave, and until you get the leadership in school to SUPPORT the teachers when they don't, and until you allow the teachers to hold kids accountable for completing the assigned work (rather than meeting some minimal standard "whenever they feel like it"), you won't be able to begin the solution. Please talk to actual teachers, or former teachers who love kids and value the future of our society. I am praying for the pendulum to swing the other way before it is too late.
Are we really supposed to believe TEA cares about why teachers are quitting?
Heh. I can think of a few reasons. 😐
Freedom of Speech but: you can’t reach them what you want? Right!! Way to go Texas.🙄
1. Fire all the teachers / make them quit
2. Replace them with National Guard
4. Schools ready for September
They should be embarrassed!
Bc 18 year old National Guardsmen are so educated and should be teaching 14 year old high school girls? You are so dumb. They likely have no mastery of the material either
Maybe once the NG has taught children some manners, they'll be finally ready to do something productive with their lives.
Children belong to parents not schools. Teach your children to respect teachers and teachers can never ever indoctrinate our kids to what the government thinks is right. The parents will teach them. They are in school to learn reading, writing and math. Everything else is not teachers business. That's it in a nutshell
^why teachers are quitting in a nutshell. Not enough money to deal with these Karens. Same people who cried when they had to watch those same kids during the lockdown. Teachers deal with 30 of them every class including this Karen in training child
The problem sounds easy, but when parents don't actually do their job, then we are needed to "surrogate" that sh**.
Actually, Julie, that’s not it in a nutshell.
Children don’t “belong” to anyone they’re human beings not livestock
I think that it has to do with the fact that Texas is still in the 13th Century.
Oh they know why. lol 😂 Parents are paying attention now and will not stand for what’s been happening behind our back’s.
Nah, no one wants to be around your dumb little rats
Parents are also uneducated!!!
“back’s” lol
LOL. You nutjobs had them at home for a couple years and look how well that turned out. You "parents" are the problem: most of you do not know how to handle yourselves much less raise a child. You'll be on your own trying to homeschool your brats. Cannot wait to hear your experience.
"Parents [...] will not stand for what’s been happening behind our back’s": 1. Yes, your "back's". See, this is why you're not a teacher in the first place. You can't even spell properly and you obviously don't understand the mistake you made, either.
2. What has been happening behind your backs? Do you think your little angels are not getting the grades you think they should get?
Privatize. Public education is imploding.
I am an immigrant and can teach for a very low salary. Lets bring down teacher salary in TX buy bringing in foreign teachers. This is going to help the State a lot!
no thank you !
Then go teach in your birth country
@@kurtk8926 Less pay than USA! I am at the border now, as I get my passport stamped with the visa, I am crossing the boarder to TX and start teaching...
Uh...no.
@@barneycasting8331 nice!
Those who can't do...teach
If you're considering becoming a teacher, this is what people think of you. They think you cannot do anything useful. Consider another career and let people figure out where to park their kids for the day so they can leave the house to go work at a job again in September.
@@texasabbott Let's get real. It's simply not worth it.
Treat the parents with respect or go find another career and teachers should not start out making more than the police officers
The teachers are all probably just running away from the rampant anti-intellectualism in Texas, which I suppose will be ground zero for an idiocracy-like degeneration of society, if it were to happen.
@@HeresTheThingOfItCZcams Probably one of those parents who couldn’t handle their kids during the pandemic school shutdowns.
"Treat the parents with respect": Uhm, excuse you. You literally don't pay a single dime for your kids' education. The other taxpayers, including teachers, do. So be grateful you don't have to pay for it before you make silly demands! Especially if those demands and needs have been met from the start.
"teachers should not start out making more than the police officers": Teachers are literally doing the polices' job as proven by all the school shootings in the US. If anything teachers should get the cops' wages as extra pay.