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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It's rather ignorant to pin all the blame on first year teachers for quitting, the entire system is broken and to top it off we're living amidst a severe health and social crisis. Having no work-life balance, sh*t pay, poor work conditions, and no satisfaction or gratification with seemingly no light at the end of the tunnel is brutal. Nowadays every day of school reminds me of the daily chess matches that Kasparov played against Deep Blue in the late 90's. Man vs inhuman machine. Every day. Teachers have to have a paper trail for everything, they have to know how to act, what to say, when to say it, how to appease to everyone, just so that admin and parents don't stick a big red target on their back. I'm a first year teacher for all intents and purposes and since I can still live with my parents, i'll try to stick it out at least until my preliminary 5 year teaching credential runs out. I'll try to save as much money as possible, and hopefully if i'm still in this by year 5 i will either stay at a good school or change careers. Definitely won't be coming back to my current school next year, and I have more than enough reasons 2 months in.

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I'm a career changer and a second-year teacher and I'm starting to think getting into this profession is one of the dumbest things I ever did in my life. It's shocking how broken the system is. Everything you say is true, but I have grown children and I never realized to what extent teachers are held for student learning, as opposed to teaching. I teach HS and it doesn't matter if the kid is lazy ne'er do well who doesn't do any work--you have to find ways to engage and coax and somehow get the kid to pass and reach out again and again to the parents.  Every behavioral issue is a disability. Troublemakers prevent serious students from learning and you can't do anything about it, really.  And all I hear from veteran teachers is stuff about record-keeping about everything--interactions with students, and parents, and what you've done to help the student, and this paperwork, and that paperwork. I spend more time coaxing students to work than actually teaching. Add to that the pointless meetings and the generally worthless mandatory PD.
 Last year, our school made us let students who hadn't done anything all year retake all exams for the year--remotely mind you--to help them "remediate" and pass. Most passed--surprise, surprise--and many of those signed up for follow on classes that they're not qualified for by a long shot. No wonder a high school degree is worthless--we're graduating a ton of students who can't write, can barely read, can't reason, and can't compute 3x4. And I'm not even teaching at a "bad" school.
I took a pay cut to do this (yeah, stupid me) and I'm working over-12-hour days and weekends right now and having to read the disgusting comments of delusional parents on these boards, while my corporate-type spouse who makes six times what I make sleeps in and does remodeling projects.
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I’m a second year teacher and career changer, too. You can go back to corporate! Harder with the pandemic, but you can. I’m working on it. [/quote]

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