Teacher explains why so many are burnt out | Morning in America
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- čas přidán 2. 08. 2024
- More than half of all teachers surveyed by the National Education Association say they're considering leaving the profession. And now, states across the country are facing a teacher shortage that has only been exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic. One teacher, Meghan Witty, went on Morning in America to describe the challenges teachers face every day, and why so many are feeling burnt out.
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I hate the statement, "teachers don't teach to make money." That type of rhetoric is giving the excuse not to pay teachers a respectable salary. Most teachers have a bachelor's degree; many have master's degrees. Pay teachers better because they are educated professionals.
You don’t get brownie points for taking abuse. You just get abused.
I’m much happier as a store cashier than a teacher. I’m grateful that I am out.
…where I live, that’s about a 60 percent drop in income per hour though…just sayin…not an option for some of us…
When you disrespect societies bedrock professionals, this is what you get.
Stay at home mothers are virtual slaves who society disregards, and they're punished in family court
You’re given two or three classes at a time packed into one room because there are not enough teachers around. Students bring their phones to class and refuse to put them away or refuse to learn or work. There’s are a good number of them that are there just to cause trouble, throw stuff, cuss each other out or start fights. Call home and parents will cuss you out. It isn’t a safe place anymore.
Are you a teacher?
I am a teacher and can confirm everything he said.
Money is important to teachers! Many teachers have to work two jobs. Teachers need and deserve a salary equivalent to other professionals.
She’s 100% correct… except she forgot all the grading…
Omg yes.
yep
And the endless paperwork generally (SPED, 504, having to document a million different things). Endless, worthless training year after year.
Teacher burn out is real and is happening. Schools reflect society and teachers are having a difficult time navigating a system where the rules aren’t enforced anymore. When you take that away from an educator all they are doing is controlling behavior and not teaching anymore. That’s how burnout happens. Strip any and all joy in feeling like you’re making progress in whatever area ideas for Student… Strip that away from a teacher and you have a glorified babysitter! Then you have a professional who’s feeling disrespected… Guess how it’s going to be when our kids are in a class with 50 kids! Support our teachers…..our kids will be and are being indirectly impacted. I feel for teachers we are now also asking them to not only control a group of 30 kids… Also make sure to teach them to all the standards perfectly… Oh and can you also get trained and how to carry a gun oh and lastly don’t forget your prayer! You cannot put all of this on Teachers….. they’re not super humans!!! They also have limits on how much you can ask of them…
"Early warning of a teacher shortage." This has been going on for a many years, probably decades. It's going to get worse. This teacher mentioning the number of hats teachers wear is something I said for years. I retired after 18 years of teaching. It was never easy.
My thoughts as well. What do you mean just beginning to show?
Money is important to teachers with student loan debt after paying for a degree, teacher’s credential program, masters degree, and to clear your credential in two years.
2:51 "But when you can't teach because you're too busy being an IT person, [therapist, chef, and] all of these other hats, it's just exhausting and that's not something we can maintain."
I think they need to think about a team approach to teaching. The workload seems to be too much for one person. 🙏
Ma’am it is about the pay🙄 She does not represent me!!
Exactly!!
EXACTLY. Maybe it’s not about $ for her. That’s her privilege speaking. Im sick of that too!
THANK YOU...I legit rolled my eyes when she said that. 😒
I crashed and burned in 2018. Just walked away.
I’m not writing this for sympathy! I don’t need any because I don’t have any of these problems anymore!
I was having nightmares. It’s actually pretty common amongst teachers, and that’s what we call them, “teacher nightmares “.
For me, they definitely started in August and occurred throughout the year.
During my last year, I had 28 six-year-olds, eight on special education plans which I had a legal responsibility to do or I could get sued, I was teaching in two languages, I had no support, working 14 hours about three days a week,
I was on my own.
For the special education plans, for example, one student was supposed to have muted colors and a calm teacher whilst another student needed an enthusiastic teacher with bright colors. How does one person do that?!
Oh, and my last year there was a girl who would pee her pants and crap 💩 and not tell me for like an hour. Actually, she wouldn’t tell me, the kids and I would start to smell it.
She would sit on all the carpets and touch all the supplies and I’d have to throw everything away and call the janitor and it was just too much.
The worst is when I had to TALLY how many times a day a kid was playing with himself. 36 on the first day.
Seriously.
Trying to teach and I have to keep paying attention to that. UGH 😩
As they mentioned in the video, I also had to be on top of technology. The six-year-olds had one to one iPads as well as chrome books. I was expected to teach Computer coding, robot programming, as well as the regular stuff like science, math, literacy in Spanish, well, basically everything. Anyway, I suppose I can go on and on, but it’s just one example of what teachers go through.
And that was pre-Covid!! I cannot imagine what they went through in 2020 in 2021. Whew 😰 😌
Bla bla bla boo hoo sounds like we got us a cry baby quit and run sounds about right now they teach kids about the rainbow, how gay as in happy LOL
Damn that is a nightmare lol
I hate when teachers say we don’t teach for money
This was well covered and I especially appreciated hearing frank, accurate, and astute commemorate from the teacher, Ms. Witty.
She said it right, it’s not just about the pay... It’s a whole slew of issues added together. As a teacher, she definitely summed it up well.
It is about the pay. I've worked in other professions and nothing is as mind-blowingly hard as teaching. I wonder if you have a partner who is well off and you don't need pay.
This teacher is exactly correct! After spending 20 years in the classroom, I'm out! I'm still working in the education field, but I'm no longer teaching. Although I had to take a pay cut, it's been worth it. The stress as a teacher was killing me!
I'll pass. Teaching was the WORST job I ever had.
So, admin adds to the teaching workload with non-teaching duties. They never learned how to subtract.
Disheartening to hear about this. 🧐☹️🙏
They just cut the teacher off at the end of this 😂 so rude.
In addition to everything else they have to fear being shot
Or punched. Or sued
Respect their breaks, respects their potty breaks, parents teach your kids manners & conduct at home, teachers can seat and walk outside if needed, teachers are not slaves, teachers need support…cut the dumb useless meetings, get them all paraprofessionals.
Early warning? Dude, it's been going on for nearly ten years.
Also if social security will not be there for us and our pensions are not fully funded.
One of the best reports I have seen on this issue. Because they actually interviewed a front line teacher not some administrator or politician. Kudos
It IS about the pay! 🛑 Stop...this is why we are the working poor!
Wish they would have let her speak more...
The simpsons predicted it first 🤣🤣🤣 call ned flanders
So basically, what she's 'hinting at' but not really coming out and saying is, 'Parents need to sit down and shut-up and let us teach your kids; it's not abuse if we expect them to learn the difference between a noun and a vert and 1+1 = 2, and if they have homework, it won't kill them. Also, disruptive policies, accepting bad behavior of students and forcing us to have them in our classrooms, and allowing bad behavior from parents of students towards teachers almost guarantees our educational goals will NOT be met, and our actual mandate to TEACH will fail.'
I particularly enjoy reading the comments below from people who think public education is a waste of time. "We don't need no stinkin' teachers, we all can do jus' fine without schoolin." Only in America.
So offensive to say we don't need to care about money.
The problem are the Shortages. We don't have time to build a rapport.
He just cuts her off at the end lol. So mutch for showing support
Teaching = Glorified Babysitter
in USA right now, I agree 100%
It’s too late to fix the problem. Teaching will need to be automated. Look for every school district to give every kid above the primary grades a tablet device upon which they can do online academy in a brick and mortar setting with some minimal level of daycare and tutoring provided. Then the high school diploma could be replaced by simply having everyone sit for their GED when they turn eighteen. Teaching has been a sick joke for so long that you’re not going to be able to fool people enough to entice them to go into teaching anymore, unless they have some perverse agenda for doing so, such as having sexual designs on the kids, for instance. I taught for seven years back in the 1980s and it was ridiculous even then. For one thing, fully one third of the kids are so stupid that a sixth grade education is all they can really manage without being socially promoted to appease their parents, a spineless move employed by grade school principals ever since the Second World War when the schools stopped flunking kids out. All you need do to check this assertion is to look up the average reading level of fully 54% of adults in society which is, you guessed it, sixth grade or lower. I rest my case.
Can read well enough to count money, might be all that is needed in this mess of a society we live in. People cannot even get basic grammer correct. It is shocking how poorly spoken and written english USA has gotten. But then again. the growth of immigration from Mexico has lowered others whom have grown up in USA to not put the emphasis needed to be that clear and concise in speaking and writing. Plus, with cell phones, new language short cut keys and letters replacing words, Grammer is out the window! People now speak like: dnk u Drik Coff.....
its about the pay and the policies, kids will be kids.
Right, the school districts still feel a teacher is a creative artist. As long as they keep seeing that image, they will not pay well. This has been going on for a century. And, NO!!! kids will not be just kids. Very poor violent families raising these monsters. Ready to throw the race card, bring weapon to school, etc... Parents coming to school beating up other kids. This America is crazy violent. Who in their right mind would want to teach today?
This shows the bullies are at the top and are losing. Women dont want to be considered martyrs anymore. Its gross.
Men are teachers too and receive similar disrespect to women teachers.
Self teaching needs to be the next big thing 👍
Education is a system designed to fail. There is always going to be a flaw. Parents and school boards cannot let a teacher simply teach material. They interfere. Simply put, teaching is- passing knowledge onto students. It's not "give Johnny an A or you lose your job" when he did nothing to deserve it. It's not politics or ridiculous testing.
When students cannot do math, read or even know geography, we have failed, and we won't feel the effects as some countdown to retirement and hand over the problems that go unsolved. Incompetent people in charge, and politics are bad. There are people who shouldn't be teachers and are horrible people. Students dread going to school. We are expecting them to choose at a young age about life decisions. Let them be kids. They will figure it out.
We pass on a hidden education. Kids see what you do and what you feel. I think following rules and security protocols are important. No teacher should be above the rules, and I think the teacher in Uvalde should have faced charges for manslaughter because she went out the wrong door as the school was being locked down. INEXCUSABLE. I worked for a company where we did active shooter drills and handled confidential documents. There was accountability for acting or failing to act when it came to rules. This behavior is encouraging violence.
Schools are violent places where students with technology can bully and make the target commit suicide. They can bring guns into school and kill a classroom of students. Teachers can be assaulted by students- even by first graders. Kids can destroy a classroom and they do a room clear.
Schools get funding and if they were corporations, they would have shuttered years ago. We trust our kids to this system. Is it really a form of state sanctioned child abuse because of what is going on? Look at the negligence and neglect. We need accountability and to clean house. School is also so parents can go to work and have a place to look after their children. Parents should also be held accountable for their children's behavior.
We have forgotten what education is supposed to be.
This woman is full of crap if she says some of it is not about the pay. She’s got to speak for herself on that one. Teachers cannot raise families on their salary. She is as wrong as wrong. Can get to say that pay is not an issue or a reason why teachers are leaving. She is delusional. If that were the case, all teachers would be volunteering.
Or, the beatings will continue until morale improves!
Teachers quit voting Democrat.
School vouchers will attract more people to teaching.
Many people prefer the private sector to public.
Private can work faster to attract and retain teachers via policies not necessarily available to public.....like less tolerance for violent students, or incompetent teachers
Teacher Unions are problem one in education. Solution?
Vote our any politician that objects to freedom of choice aka School Vouchers
You need to really listen to some of us veteran public school teachers. Your comments show how little you know about the realities out here. I, for one, would never tolerate the even *lower* pay that’s given at private and charter schools.
charter schools (privately owned and publicly funded) have a 50 percent teacher turnover ratio each year. Many charters dont survive past 5 years due to problems filling their teacher vacancies. Creating a system with no teacher voices is exactly how we got into this problem.
Yeah working half a year is a lot to ask of anyone under 40.
They work all year, more than 40 your weeks
@@recoveringsoul755 how many day's does that work out to? Let's see 9 months 20 days a month thats 180 days. Minus holidays 160 days maybe. Thats about half of what the parents work .
@@miker9082 my kids had 10 weeks of summer vacation, but teachers are working during that time, before and after class, planning, spending their own money on class supplies, grading papers, meeting with parents. Don't count only the time in the classroom. You ever had a meeting or a court date? Lots of planning and preparing happens to get ready. Don't be stupid. They even decorate the classrooms. Who did you think does all of that? Magic fairies? At the end of the school year the teachers are cleaning out the classrooms. Your lack of understanding is why they get paid so little
@@recoveringsoul755 its an entry-level position to begin with. Straight out of college many people don't make a lot of money. School taxes are ridiculously high. Do you own a home or land? If you did you would understand who pays for teachers salaries.
@@recoveringsoul755 most teachers do nothing during summer vacation. Many actually get side jobs in the off months.
They should go back to teaching academics instead of grooming the kids with adult topics.
Teachers don't do this.
I’m sorry but let’s recognize all the professions that aren’t given summers off. Not for nothing but as a frontline nurse in this pandemic, I haven’t had as much as an even stay home vacation due to staff shortages. I’m not complaining but come on, there’s burnout in all professions. Wish we had as much time off as teachers 😉
Maybe you should stop belittling them for coming forward to report the burnout? Sure, you deserve a vacation, but to belittle them for coming forward for the exact thing you just complained about is hypocritical. You’re also being paid a living wage. Most teachers can’t say the same. 🙄
@@Leopardvixen369 with all due respect nobody forces anyone to be a teacher. A lot of teachers I know enjoy their summers and vacations through the school year off and often will supplement their income during the summer with tutoring. It’s a great career actually as if anyone is paid their professional worth? 😉
@@Pink_143_6No one forced you to be a frontline healthcare worker either.
Stay at home parents get paid nothing, have no vacations, and aren't putting in to the SS system. Don't qualify for disability even when they would if they'd been working. But they still have to work through their recovery from surgery or C-section , new infant etc.
Elementary school teachers, at least, never really get the next school year out of their mind.
Maybe they don’t have to work specific hours in the summer except for six week curriculum trainings, conferences, continuing education, college classes to keep your certificate current,
oh wait….
That fills the entire summer.
Oh and every vacation during the year, They get to take all of the children’s work and grade it.
So no.
They never leave their job behind.
Teacher burn out huu ?? 2 months off in the summer, 2 weeks off at Christmas, 2 weeks off at spring break, every holiday and long weekend off, plus sick days, and so much more .. I'm still trying to figger this one out ....
Maybe if you had a better teacher, you'd know how to spell figure. I wouldn't be a teacher in USA, they get paid very little and often need to pick up a second job, they need to buy supplies with their own money, they have expanding classrooms and there's a chance they're confronted by a school shooter. I'm not a teacher, but I think you're being very dismissive.
As a frontline Covid nurse, I’d prefer to be a teacher. I haven’t had a vacation since Covid began and I’m referring to an even a stay home vacation. Burnout is affecting all professions. At least yes teachers get a lot of time off.
plus something else you forgot to mention is they teach the same things every year hahah they are not inventing anything.. just teaching what they have been teaching for the last 50 years... has to be easiest job in the world hahahh such clowns who think being a teacher is hard lol
@@kiriakoz I'm not trying figure it I'm trying to fiiiiiggggerrrrrrr it out but thanks for input
Teachers in the 60s and 70s had 30-40 students per class in grades schools. They didn't have teachers aids. They collected essays written out not typed, they corrected home work. The kids got a good education .none of this wokness where they are busy teaching gender bs and the kids in school now are way below standards in reading, writing math etc. And now they are saying they are burned out. They now have teachers aids everything is done on computer therefore typed so easy to read. It's unbelievable these teachers are crying burn out. In my opinion it's not from the great education they are giving the kids.
Why? because they had extremely long vacations with pay and now they have to go back to work?
What is with this persistent notion that our vacations are paid? We are not paid for evenings, weekends, holidays, or summers.
Did you ever teach?! What Pay?! How ignorant...👹
@@gabrielleangelica1977 My children went to private school, So yes I did pay. I don't take back anything I said. I gather you're trying to say you didn't receive any unemployment comp. or money from your union. anyway SHHH
@@gabrielleangelica1977 Teachers can get payed during the summer months if they chose the 12- month pay schedule and not the 10 month pay schedule, the money is the same. I was talking about covid-19 unemployment.
@@burntoutteacher8056 Just retired after 40 years...witch has NO 💡 idea what she's talking about!