Teachers are paying nearly 1500 more a year compared to ten years ago. Health care costs have gone up faster than teacher salaries: this means we take a pay cut. We are called babysitters on social media and routinely criticized for everything that is wrong with education. Then, there are the ones that think their children being distracted by their cell phones is our fault. There are absolutely amazing and supportive parents. Our classrooms have become unsafe, and we are discouraged and reprimanded when we send kids to the office for discipline or counseling. Our students are suffering mentally and taking it out on us. Let’s spend countless hours unpacking and learning something unnecessary all over again. We have it all organized and extra materials created and then……. We just started getting good at the existing math and reading programs. Observations often feel like personal attacks instead of support.
The newly acquired power erases all memories of the struggles they encountered as teachers. Administration that has lost themselvesĪs soon as the administration promotion comes through, they forget what it was like to be a teacher. Who has the energy for a personal life? We don’t have time to date or help our children with their homework with the work demands of grading, planning, and responding to parents. And forget about added assistance from aides in the classroom because there are none. We must sub on our prep time because there are no subs. We now must clean our rooms ourselves if we are short custodians. They are leaving for the same reasons we are, and this makes our jobs harder.
You would think that this would be of enough pressing concern to political leaders everywhere, but just add it to the list of the major reasons why teachers are quitting the profession: No one cares. Over one-third of new teachers leave within five years and over 8 percent of teachers find a new career each school year. So, it follows then that the next logical step is for teachers to hop off the bridge and find a job that doesn’t crush their very spirits and souls into a million tiny pieces.Īnd the numbers back this up. Well, the steps keep being added for educators and there is no tempered glass insight. If they choose the step with regular glass, they will crash through falling over one-hundred feet to their deaths. If the step they choose is the sturdy tempered glass, it will hold them. Squid Game, the new widely popular Netflix series, has a game in which players must hop from glass step to glass step until they make it across the bridge to the end.
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