Inside the great teacher resignation

[Anonymous]

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/18/opinion/teachers-quitting-education-crisis.html

Our region is prominently featured.
In separate new, running Josh Hawley is also introducing a bill in Congress that follows the Youngkin playbook in castigating schools and teachers.

[Anonymous]

Paywall. Can you give a synopsis of what is said about our region?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Paywall. Can you give a synopsis of what is said about our region?

Actually I'm not 100% sure the scenes are from Loundon /Fairfax because I was simultaneously reading the Hawley op-ed in the Post about how he plans on saving the GOP that linked to a Fox article that showed pix of the protests around here, and I may have gotten the two mixed up. But same idea.

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/hawley-to-introduce-parents-bill-of-rights-to-counter-woke-bureaucrats-taking-over-schools

I would add that I think it's politics from both sides of the aisles is breaking the schools, not just what is portrayed above.

[Anonymous]

Byyeeee.

School is not childcare. We remember.

[Anonymous]

Hawley is a grade a POS
He lives in VA why is he a Senator from MO.

His wife is worse she is running around trying to kill all women's rights. Watch her she's dangerous.

Virgina is screwed on the school issue.

[Anonymous]

Anywhere in the South, Texas, and Southwest is basically terrible for teachers right now. Sadly many teachers even vote against their own interests in those areas due political reasons. Parents throw fits for various political reasons. Teachers are basically terrified, have no rights (non-union or weak union), and extremely poor salaries. Things are so jerrymandered that there is no hope that elections would change anything. When Oklahoma teachers strikes 4 years ago they got a pay raise but since then nothing and got cuts to benefits.
Kids are verbally, emotionally, professional and physically assaulting teachers left and right without consequence.

Go check the teachers Reddit page to see post after post of teacher pain.

[Anonymous]

When I see how many teachers at my school are close to retirement or very new (often on a provisional license) I get very worried for the future. We’ve had openings that last for months because there are no applicants.

[Anonymous]

Some here don't like hearing it, but this is all part of the GOP plan:
Get rid of the federal Department of Education, Destroy local public schools,
Complain how bad local public schools,
Give vouchers so more can go to private, meaning, Christian

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Some here don't like hearing it, but this is all part of the GOP plan:
Get rid of the federal Department of Education, Destroy local public schools,
Complain how bad local public schools,
Give vouchers so more can go to private, meaning, Christian

+1 Yup
The goal is total breakdown of government.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Byyeeee.

School is not childcare. We remember.

Sorry, I don’t care about that anymore.

Old news.

I want my kids taught by experience teachers. I don’t want to drive them away.

[Anonymous]

What’s the Hawley bill? I can’t find anything about it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Byyeeee.

School is not childcare. We remember.

Sorry, I don’t care about that anymore.

Old news.

I want my kids taught by experience teachers. I don’t want to drive them away.

We all want our kids taught by skilled, reliable teachers. But then our teachers refused to come to work. They came back, but how long until their next temper tantrum?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Byyeeee.

School is not childcare. We remember.

Sorry, I don’t care about that anymore.

Old news.

I want my kids taught by experience teachers. I don’t want to drive them away.

Agree. The pandemic was a once-in-a-lifetime (literally) unique event. We all did the best we could, what we thought was the right thing to do, operating on the best information we had at the time. Maybe some decisions weren't the best - but we can't redo it.

Moving forward, now that the pandemic is over, how can we return to normal and fix the problems? I'm ready, give me some direction.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Byyeeee.

School is not childcare. We remember.

Sorry, I don’t care about that anymore.

Old news.

I want my kids taught by experience teachers. I don’t want to drive them away.

We all want our kids taught by skilled, reliable teachers. But then our teachers refused to come to work. They came back, but how long until their next temper tantrum?

Parents like you are why they aren't continuing to teach. They did work. Teaching virtually per the government's decision is working. You had the tantrum as you cannot handle your kids all day every day.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Byyeeee.

School is not childcare. We remember.

Sorry, I don’t care about that anymore.

Old news.

I want my kids taught by experience teachers. I don’t want to drive them away.

Agree. The pandemic was a once-in-a-lifetime (literally) unique event. We all did the best we could, what we thought was the right thing to do, operating on the best information we had at the time. Maybe some decisions weren't the best - but we can't redo it.

Moving forward, now that the pandemic is over, how can we return to normal and fix the problems? I'm ready, give me some direction.

We have returned to normal. Except the school system listened to the screaming parents to dumb down the curriculum, no homework, no nothing and they listened. Now test scores have dropped with the new teaching style, no textbooks, no nothing and parents are upset too.