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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Here’s the reality. It doesn’t matter how many hours people think teachers work or don’t work. We’re all different on that front, once you get beyond mandated contract hours. It doesn’t matter how many hours you think we work in the summer. Some of us have three jobs cobbled together, while some of us take the time to decompress. And it doesn’t matter whether you think 60k, 80k, or whatever is a reasonable salary, or that 3% is a reasonable raise. The fact is that there is a teacher shortage. As a teacher, I can tell you that you can’t attract the best and brightest to this field anymore. Many of those who can leave are leaving, especially the ones who have advanced degrees or transferable skills, which is essentially all of the “good” ones. People who have other sources of income (ie high-earning partners) also are fleeing the field, or at least fleeing public teaching positions. And so the question becomes, do you want to attract the best and brightest to teach our children? And if you do, what do we as a society need to do to make that happen? It’s not whatever it is we’re doing right now, regardless of anyone’s opinion about our salary or the hours we work. I am leaving for a private school. If things aren’t better, I will leave the field. It was a second career for me, and so I have that option.[/quote]

+1. This is what they don't understand: their opinion on things doesn't matter. Even if teachers are overpaid, undereducated, whining, lazy, entitled brats who are wrong about everything, there is still a historic teacher shortage. Teachers are leaving and there is no one qualified to replace them. I have not heard one detractor address this fact. They keep dismissing it, like a little kid with their hands over their ears, pretending bad things aren't real. When we say we are underpaid, overworked, and disrespected, it isn't a debate, it is an exit interview. There aren't two equal and opposing sides here. These are just statements of fact. Teachers are leaving the field because of these things. Whether you agree or not is utterly irrelevant, because [i]we are still leaving and there isn't anyone qualified to replace us.[/i] You won't shame us, insult us, or argue us into staying.

This is a real problem. Filling the vacancies with provisional licenses and teacher residences won't solve it. Telling teachers they are wrong won't solve it and is making things worse. [/quote]

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