APS- so many teachers leaving

[Anonymous]

Record number of teachers resigning at our school this year. Several are leaving teaching as a profession all together.

What can APS do to retain good teachers? There has got to be a way to make things better.

[Anonymous]

What school?

[Anonymous]

Good for them. I hope they find happiness

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Record number of teachers resigning at our school this year. Several are leaving teaching as a profession all together.

What can APS do to retain good teachers? There has got to be a way to make things better.

I suspect retention is a lost cause.

[Anonymous]

Pay them more
Shrink class sizes
Require less administrative tasks

All of which are state and county decisions (staffing, compensation)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Good for them. I hope they find happiness

+1

I hate to see good teachers go, but no one should be subject to the abuses of the last few years.

[Anonymous]

This is not a teacher story, this is an every profession story. aka The Great Resignation

Work has really sucked the last 2 years for a lot of people. Any job interacting with the public? Terrible. People deciding they want to telework all the time or people deciding they don't want to be on Zoom another minute. Just a lot of seismic changes in people's lives and priorities and a lot of job movement. And everyone thinks there is something better somewhere else. Which there might be, so people should go and and try to find it.

[Anonymous]

I work at a public library and a lot of public librarians are just leaving the profession too.

Ditto nurses.

Dealing with y'all has been a lot these last couple years.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This is not a teacher story, this is an every profession story. aka The Great Resignation

Work has really sucked the last 2 years for a lot of people. Any job interacting with the public? Terrible. People deciding they want to telework all the time or people deciding they don't want to be on Zoom another minute. Just a lot of seismic changes in people's lives and priorities and a lot of job movement. And everyone thinks there is something better somewhere else. Which there might be, so people should go and and try to find it.

+1

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Good for them. I hope they find happiness

+1

I hate to see good teachers go, but no one should be subject to the abuses of the last few years.

If any of them are the teachers who refused to work in Fall 2020 (while their private school and non-blue area counterparts went to school just fine), then see you later. They owe children an apology too for how awfully they treated them.

[Anonymous]

Yeah ok, so many people are quitting jobs but that's not a reason not to have a discussion about how to improve things at APS.

We have a big problem. Veteran teachers quitting. New teachers quitting after 4 months. Subs refusing to work at certain schools. Parents harassing and berating teachers.

Here are a few things that may help - I am sure the list is endless!

- Provide young/new teachers with the support from administration with regard to discipline
- Consistent discipline/class structure across grades and schools
- Engage parents of misbehaving children ASAP. Most of us want to know and help
- Drastically reduce iPad time. Many kids are on YouTube once they finish assignments. Yes, they know secret sites to get to even in elementary school

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Yeah ok, so many people are quitting jobs but that's not a reason not to have a discussion about how to improve things at APS.

We have a big problem. Veteran teachers quitting. New teachers quitting after 4 months. Subs refusing to work at certain schools. Parents harassing and berating teachers.

Here are a few things that may help - I am sure the list is endless!

- Provide young/new teachers with the support from administration with regard to discipline
- Consistent discipline/class structure across grades and schools
- Engage parents of misbehaving children ASAP. Most of us want to know and help
- Drastically reduce iPad time. Many kids are on YouTube once they finish assignments. Yes, they know secret sites to get to even in elementary school

And also, ELIMINATE phones in classrooms. Suspension if rules are broken.

[Anonymous]

With parents like the ones on DCUM always whining and complaining I don't blame the teachers one little bit for leaving. Good for them.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Yeah ok, so many people are quitting jobs but that's not a reason not to have a discussion about how to improve things at APS.

We have a big problem. Veteran teachers quitting. New teachers quitting after 4 months. Subs refusing to work at certain schools. Parents harassing and berating teachers.

Here are a few things that may help - I am sure the list is endless!

- Provide young/new teachers with the support from administration with regard to discipline
- Consistent discipline/class structure across grades and schools
- Engage parents of misbehaving children ASAP. Most of us want to know and help
- Drastically reduce iPad time. Many kids are on YouTube once they finish assignments. Yes, they know secret sites to get to even in elementary school

This is a classic response. Not one suggestion relating to parents!

Don't you get it? It's not the students or the administrators the teachers are having a problem with. It's YOU.

[Anonymous]

Pay more
Shrink class sizes
Stop allowing inclusion