Why is there a teacher shortage?
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Anonymous
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I’m a high school teacher. I don’t mind having SPED kids in my class.
It is all the extra paper work and SPED meetings, etc., that are frustrating. I resent all the time it takes away from preparing content, grading, working individually with students. I like to treat all my students as having individual needs because they all crave individual attention not just the SPED kids but with 30+ kids in each class, I have my hands full. |
Anonymous
People don't believe me when I say that screens have destroyed some kids brains. |
Anonymous
Actually there are plenty of more rigorous majors on that list that are paid less than education graduates. |
Anonymous
Here is my theory: Teaching demands rigor in a different way than college courses do. Other majors may be rigorous in the same academic way that the degree is gotten (through academic work). Teaching is mostly emotionally/socially demanding because of the constant reading of cues and thousands of on the spot decisions that must be made. It is demanding, but not necessarily academically demanding. We haven’t put a price on or even been able to easily quantify the skills of teaching because it is so psychologically and personality based. It is mostly a soft skill and uses skills that have been traditionally given the short shrift of being labeled “women’s skills’” so it is underpaid. |
Anonymous
I’ve been told the only recourse is calling the police. I’m sorry that happened to your child and your family. |
Anonymous
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This might help answer it:
https://www.yahoo.com/news/teaching-11-years-quit-job-123000931.html |
Anonymous
So many things wrong 1. Talking points right out of the democratic party playbook 2. School shootings are extremely rare 3. People deal with personal issues all the time 4. Pay scales are widely known 5. Going on strike hurts students 6. Parents are in charge of a childs development and molding not teachers I could go on but I have better stuff to do with my time |
Anonymous
Ty for confirming her writing. I almost posted the same article, but I’m currently in a happy place at my school. Posters like you are so gross. She tells a story of a time when she was on lockdown for hours for a potential shooting and you still just laugh it off Democratic Party talking points? This is a woman’s personal experience. I honestly don’t know what’s wrong with people to be this cold hearted |
Anonymous
+1 Apparently the PP thinks rare school shootings are acceptable. |
Anonymous
DP. No, not acceptable, but a tiny risk compared to other parts of daily life, like driving to work. So it's certainly reasonable to want to do something about them, but it is completely irrational to make personal life decisions based on them as potential risks. |
Anonymous
The rant definitely jumped the shark when she referred to the teachers fighting to keep kids out of school as the "voices of reason about logistics and safety." |
Anonymous
Society has decided to have active shooter drills regularly in school. Like a few times a year. IN fact when the senate was overtaken on Jan 6 the senators were told what to do by the younger set who had regularly participated in active shooter drills. It works in malls and shopping plazas too. Funny that we decided to do that, but do you do drills with your family for what to do in a car accident. I do hope you have shown your toddler how to use the scissors to cut themselves out of restraints. And shown your kids how to use the hammer to shatter the window. At least 4 times a year, but preferable once a month you should be holding these drills. If you are doing it in proportion to how dangerous you are saying cars are, do it once a week. The more something is practiced, the more emphasis we place on it and the more it seeps into our subconscious. The teacher was reflecting what the active shooting drills have told teachers, that you are in danger. As teachers, we were even incorrectly told by our administration that if we don’t follow the protocol of lockdown and kids die, it is on us. |
Anonymous
It's a tiny risk, but one that school systems have decided to incorporate into daily operational procedures. It's why we have a security guard, and why they installed shatterproof window coverings so the windows are all foggy, and why the doors are all locked so every time kids go to the bathroom they have to knock and interrupt lessons to get back into the room, and why some doors are badge access only, and why parents can't visit without an appointment on record in the office, and why, of course, we have to practice lockdowns four times a year and answer questions from students about what will happen if there is a shooter. My fifth-grade students have definitely thought about some worst-case scenarios. We had a lockdown in my school in which we thought there was a shooter (turned out to be a shooting outside the building) and the fact that students and staff were afraid they were going to die was completely unaddressed. It was totally "no danger, phew, wasn't that luck! On with the day!" It's not a reason that I would leave teaching, but it's an aspect of teaching that was not present when I started.
Yes, exactly. |
Anonymous
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So in my career as a teacher, a bank robber get into the school and walk by me in the hallway. We figured it out only after we found the exploded dye packs on fake money by the door he walked through. It was right at bus time but right after students had left so the doors were still unlocked. It never made the news out of FCPS, MD. I certainly wasn’t going to risk my job telling anyone. That was about 12 years ago. Recently, I was at Magruder where a 15 year old almost died due to a ghost gun.
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Anonymous
Yup and bring on lockdown while one your students get arrested it's NBD. Talk about being heartless. |