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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don't know why people keep talking about the effect of COVID.  This thread is about why teachers are resigning.

I'm an elementary school teacher. I know three teachers who resigned last year, a few years earlier than they had anticipated.  Last year was an exceptionally hard year, it is true.  We had so many teacher absences, and were constantly covering for teachers who were out and had no subs.  This year it is even harder. We still have a lot of teacher vacancies; in addition we have a large number of brand new teachers, or conditional teachers without formal teacher training and student teaching. They can do OK for a while, but they really need mentors; yet the mentor teacher support isn't there because most of those teachers have been moved back into the classroom themselves.

Meanwhile, our school district is going like gangbusters with the next new big thing.  They do NOT understand how tapped out we all are. More and more teachers are leaving or planning to leave.

The ONE thing that the school district could do, to retain experienced teachers, IMO is just to calm the eff down.  Just let it be OK for us to be competent. Everything doesn't have to be bright and shiny and amazing. And beef up HR however you need to hire more teachers. Retrain administrators who are experiencing staff attrition.  When `10% of your teaching staff resigns, that's a sign you have a poor administrator.  Look at the principals who have managed to retain their experienced staff and ask "What is he doing, that other principals aren't doing?"  And then train your administrators to do those things.[/quote]

+1 yes yes yes[/quote]

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