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[quote=Anonymous]I teach in a very large school with several hundred staff members in the Midwest.  20 years ago, we almost never hired a first year teacher.  We didnt have to.  Only the very best, proven and experienced teachers were even had their resumes looked at.  Now? The teacher shortage is so bad, we're lucky to get more than a dozen applicants.  Most are first year teachers.
First years have a lot of energy and no skill.  They're like puppies.  Which would be okay except we've had so many quit mid year the last few years.    We've been teaching for 4 weeks.  In that time, despite a robust mentoring program, a fabulous admin team, and awesome students, we've had THREE first year teachers quit.  One quit after day 2!  And since we lost most of our subs, the rest of us are left to double up classes.  I have 45 kids in my AP bio class until or if we can find a replacement.  Kids are sitting on the floor (yes we are in person).  I am talking to our HR to see if we can put something in the contract to penalize people for breaking their contract.  I'm tired of 22 year olds, who think they're going to save the world, meeting real life teaching and, once they have a few tough days i a row, wussing out.  This job is hard.  Don't get a teaching degree if you can't handle a year or two of 80 hour weeks and most of those weeks sucking.  It takes that long for things to get better. [/quote]

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