There ISN'T a "Teacher Shortage" in the United States
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- Опубликовано: 28 авг 2023
- We only have a "shortage" of teachers who want to be treated like disposable objects.
There are plenty of wonderful and passionate #teachers out there who could be in the classroom educating our youth.
But they aren't there...and neither am I.
Around 3/4 of a million educators have left or retired early since January, 2020. Crippling #mentalhealth issues, #stress, and #burnout have paralyzed the profession.
It is no small wonder why the #transitioningteachers community has grown so large here on LinkedIn and other sites.
Podcasts (like our #breakingthefourthwall podcast I cohost with David), comedy tours, and support groups have sprung up to help teachers leave the public school system.
What we have is a critical #teacherrecruitment and #teacherretention problem...NOT a "shortage."
What can I say?
You reap what you sow.
#careerchange #edxit #personalgrowth
Word. There are lots of us out there. We just don’t want to do the job anymore.
Nothing is being done to attract back teachers who are not teaching. There are simple solutions. Ban cell phones, increase pay and benefits, stop forcing teachers to be social workers, discipline students and build affordable housing for teachers. You are absolutely right about the admins and evals. Most of these admins left the classroom before becoming competent teachers themselves.
Teacher, day care worker, social worker, prison guard, soldier, prisoner... Which time-on-task happens most in the American classroom.
Yeah, there’s no therapist shortage either. There are a lot of therapists who can’t make enough to pay for daycare, or cannot deal with the mental health costs of working in schools. I’m so grateful for the awesome school I get to work in. It can be so, so awful. De-professionalism is a huge issue for us, too. We have the same degree as private practice occupational therapists, physical therapists, and speech therapists, but parents frequently devalue our professional input. It’s less valuable because it’s free to them, so they expect a 20-year veteran to follow directions from a brand-new grad, because she’s in private practice and must be smarter. It’s just a reflection of overall disrespect for public education, and the political attempts to shut it down using a public relations campaign.
Parents can be a teacher’s worst enemy.
There’s a HUGE Teacher shortage in Texas! Thousands of teachers are leaving as fast as they can. They are underpaid, overworked, disrespected, beaten up by their students. And they are being asked by administrators and republican politicians Do you PRAY???” As if that would somehow make a difference.
2% raise doesn’t begin to cut the mustard- salary doesn’t pay the bills. They also won’t pay for essential training- so no career enrichment.
I can't see this situation ever improving. The damage has been done over many years. It's beginning to look like Israel and Palestine unsolvable.
This is NOT what I signed up for in 2005
The biggest issue of education is that it is in the hands of local politicians not qualified educators. Education has become a political pawn. In Texas 20 years ago there were 10 juvenile Justice facilities to deal with juvenile felony offenders. Today there are only five which are grossly under staffed. 10 years ago the Texas legislature passed House Bill 383 which allowed judges to sentence juvenile offenders to alternative education settings paid for with county property taxes instead of state taxes taking money away from regular school programs. The logic behind this was schools have counselors and social work in place so they should deal with juvenile criminality and not the state. More work for the overworked and underfunded education system.
THANK YOU for making this distinction. If the conditions were suddenly right, plenty of teachers would be right there tomorrow morning!!!!
No supplies, no curriculum, no support, way too many required tasks on top of teaching, too many needs in one room that no single person can meet, low pay, abuse from students, admin, parents…. And crappppyyy pay. Hmmm, wonder why no one wants to teach.
So true! I had enough violence, abuse and insults from kids, parents and admin!!!! WAKE UP Americans and fight for teacher rights!!!
This is the best CONCISE video I've ever seen on this topic! You have nailed it most concisely! Thank you! I'll be saving and sharing this video with others.
In my area 3000-5000 lost their jobs due to mandates and now on the news there’s a teacher shortage?! There are tens of thousands of teachers in Australia who refuse to go back. NSW education minister offered 1400 permanent jobs - in the largest population state of Australia?!? Is this a joke? She then offered to pay teacher registration of $100 per teacher for the year… again insult to injury. No one is looking at addressing the real issues in education. I myself am trying to leave. I signed up for six months but got a migraine stressing over planning for my new school I had to email the principal and pull out. My body simply cant handle that stress anymore even for a better school. I agree there’s no teacher shortages. Those in leadership roles climb the greasy pole to promotion and are on six figure incomes while those of stuck teaching will never break thru to leadership and will remain on significant lower pay. There’s no teacher shortage!
I am 70 years old and starting my 41st year in Secondary Education. I am tenured and love my job . Great benefits, terrible time investment, rowdy and electronically challenged students . I am a grandpa of 11 and teacher to around 100 students a year. The challenge is that I am 70 years old and I make less than I did in 1980 and I am at the top of the District pay scale. I cannot afford to retire so I will continue living and serving my students until they haul me out on a gurney! That’s all for now.
I can only speak for my area, but the actual "teacher shortage" is in SPED, math, and science teachers. If you're a secondary humanities (social studies, English, art, PE/health) teacher, then there's the opposite. A massive surplus and too few jobs because those are the easiest endorsements to get...especially if you've recently entered the education field after graduating from teacher training program. Good freaking luck finding a job! We practically have to fight each other everytime a job posting comes up, and 99% of the time, schools already know who they're hiring (it's not you). The jobs that are available are ones people don't want.
It doesn't help that influential " educators " like Jeffery Canada and many others encouraged the cult, the myth of the SUPER TEACHER. That stalwart always available, working from a sick bed, ignoring their own kids for yours, and epitome of selfless dedication. According to him and the Gates, and Broad Foundations, that teacher alone is the: " single most important factor in determining a student's academic outcomes ". Not the family or home environment, not a student own work ethic, and motivation, just the teacher. They'll get it done. They'll do it despite exhaustion, poor pay, disrespect, personal crisis, student idolence, roommate parent indifference, shit loads of central office compliance bullshit, mandated assessment
In one of the Despicable movie ads two boxers were punching the referee until the ref was on the floor. Then the meds came out to help and the boxers punched the nurse. That is our society teaching violence against authority.
Absolutely.