Why These 18 Oklahoma Teachers Are Quitting Their Jobs

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I feel like until they work 8 hours a day 2080 hours a year like others they just aren't going to get the respect or pay they deserve.

8 hours a day would be GREAT! No parent meetings, phone calls, teacher meetings, helping kids after school, papers to score, complicated projects to read and provide feedback, week-ends with my family and no take home work, summers in unpaid professional development! Fabulous idea!
How about teachers don’t need to go to graduate school and take out student loans? Ignorance is bliss and who doesn’t like bliss?

[Anonymous]

8 hour work days? Crap I'd settle for 10 hour days if I didn't have to also bring additional work home and didn't have to work on weekends too.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:8 hour work days? Crap I'd settle for 10 hour days if I didn't have to also bring additional work home and didn't have to work on weekends too.

This. It’s like saying doctors and nurses only work the hours they are in direct contact with patients. Or that lawyers only work when they are in the courtroom. Instruction is only one part of the job. Quality instruction only happens with extension preparation and analysis of prior assessment. Those take a lot of time. Parents are screaming that they want rigorous, individualized instruction, but they don’t want to ackknowkedge the hours of off the clock work required.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Contract time? Personal time? Other white-collar professionals in office or sales jobs work during “personal” time all the time! You give teachers a really bad and lazy name when you talk like that.

The point is that teachers work well beyond their contract hours, despite all of the people who claim that they work "9-3" and have "3 months of vacation time". If it were really that easy then you wouldn't have a teacher shortage all across the country.

+1 and just wait 'til all those women aged 55+ start retiring

Here's just one article (WAPO), but there are plenty more that share info on the shortage of teachers.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/posteverything/wp/2018/01/09/americas-teacher-shortage-cant-be-solved-by-hiring-more-unqualified-teachers/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.0a9c3acaa920

Whatever - they've been wailing about a nursing shortage for a decade now. And yet, the hospitals and care centers keep running.

https://nurse.org/articles/what-happened-to-the-nursing-shortage/

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Contract time? Personal time? Other white-collar professionals in office or sales jobs work during “personal” time all the time! You give teachers a really bad and lazy name when you talk like that.

The point is that teachers work well beyond their contract hours, despite all of the people who claim that they work "9-3" and have "3 months of vacation time". If it were really that easy then you wouldn't have a teacher shortage all across the country.

+1 and just wait 'til all those women aged 55+ start retiring

Here's just one article (WAPO), but there are plenty more that share info on the shortage of teachers.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/posteverything/wp/2018/01/09/americas-teacher-shortage-cant-be-solved-by-hiring-more-unqualified-teachers/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.0a9c3acaa920

Whatever - they've been wailing about a nursing shortage for a decade now. And yet, the hospitals and care centers keep running.

https://nurse.org/articles/what-happened-to-the-nursing-shortage/

What are you do when you have a labor shortage? Either you loosen up qualifications, bringing people from other countries or work your existing Force overtime (or in the case of teachers you come by and classes so you end up with larger class sizes)