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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The worst thing in your daughter’s case is that they have to collapse a section and add those 25ish kids across the other classes so each class size might be a few kids bigger. There is still also 3 weeks left before school and I’ve seen people get hired the day before school starts. But of course, those late hires are either brand new teachers or the people who weren’t picked in earlier hiring rounds so it’s a crapshoot. Some turn out ok, some are terrible but that’s really true for all teachers.

Overall your DD will be fine but the hiring issue will not get better during your kids’ tenure in school. The job has changed. Younger people are not entering the field in numbers. When career educators (the 30+ year vets) leave, there’s nobody in similar experience coming up behind them because doing this as a lifelong career has become so much more difficult. It’s a milestone to make it beyond 5 years now; 10 is a benchmark. So the field is over time becoming less and less experienced -the vets retire and who is left are novices or mid careers. Add in the political nonsense and being hammered by parents over some book that’s on a shelf in your room that’s driving them to fits and too many people are saying why deal with this pressure for this money? It’s unfortunate. I’ve seen so many great colleagues leave the last few years.

-teacher [/quote]

The overused book censorship example is not the reason why teachers are leaving in droves. - teacher[/quote]

But doesn’t it all go towards attacks on the teaching profession as a whole (blaming teachers for school closures, indoctrination of students, etc)?[/quote]

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