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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Out of curiosity, how many teachers are leaving your school next year? At my ES there is 10 that we know of so far. Im wondering if the shortage situation is going to be better or worse than last year for the county.[/quote]

To me this metric is meaningless without additional data. For example, I’d like to know:

the delta between outgoing and incoming (not known until late summer);

the primary reason for leaving (eg, administrative issues, unsuitable match, retirement, career change, etc)

the seniority of the teachers;

and so on.[/quote]

Most of this is meaningless. The key points are that more are leaving the system than entering, and those entering are largely new and inexperienced.[/quote]

This we just hired another "teacher trainee"[/quote]

We are seeing the decline of the “career educator” who majors in education in college and stays all the way through retirement. More and more people are coming in through Alternative Certification programs. [/quote]

I'm a career changer and I can tell you that morale is extremely low among the career educators in my department--I'm talking about people who have been on the job 15+ years. Here are some quotes:
"I used to love my job and now I hate it."
"I have to hang on for ___ years until I can retire."
"I'd rather be doing just about anything else."
"I really want out but there's nothing else I'm trained for."
"I have been looking at (insert private/other district name) to see if it's better."
"I am treated like a child and my opinion as an educator doesn't matter."
"I [/quote]

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