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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]

Lots of warm bodies that will not be supported and burn out fast.[/quote]

The trainees here are getting good support from their colleagues but they were so unprepared for the actual job of teaching. One guy retired early from a mid-level management job and thought this would be a breeze. He ignored everything his dept chair and mentor told him and tried to do things his way- he likes to respond to suggestions with phrases like “I managed 40 people for 25 years…” Apparently his kids had some of the worst SOL scores we’ve ever had for that subject.

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