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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This thread is so depressing. Nobody wants their taxes to go up, but without more money, how do we prevent schools from being overcrowded and class sizes from being too big to be manageable and teachers’ workloads from being twice as many hours as they’re paid for?[/quote]

We don’t. And so teachers continue to leave.

New teachers, often career changers, don’t last because they aren’t properly prepared for the job’s demands. So we have a rotating door of people, few of whom stay long enough to mentor new teachers.

We need to fix the profession to improve schools. Teachers’ days need to be less chaotic; more time has to be devoted to private planning and grading. Teachers’ nights and weekends must not be considered fair game; work/life balance must be respected. We need twice as many teachers to pull that off, and there aren’t enough people willing and able to do the job. [/quote]
If we doubled the number of teachers to complete the current workload, there would be more people willing to do the job, but we don’t have the money or the infrastructure for that. What can we do?

My kids (seniors now) have had just a few mediocre teachers, but the vast majority have been good and more than a few have been excellent. I can only think of one bad apple, and that one was terminated. These are overwhelmingly good, hardworking people who care about their students. I can see how many things teachers are expected to do that were not commonplace back when I was in school. The forms of discipline that were available to my teachers aren’t available to them. It seems like the job just keeps getting harder.[/quote]

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