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[quote=Anonymous]The teacher shortage is going to continue unless the school districts start fixing the system.  First the administration needs to back off on the administrivia that is piled onto the teachers.  The teachers are now putting in as much time handling paperwork, testing, training, documentation as they are in the class.  And in many cases, they are doing a lot of this after class.  At our school there were regularly teachers showing up 2 hours before school, or staying 2 hours after school daily to handle paperwork.  The load of non-classroom related work is absolutely ridiculous.

Then the school system needs to develop better policies for managing the terribly overentitled parents.  While I have absolutely sympathy for parents who need to contact the school for behavioral issues, bullying, etc., there are too many parents who are helicoptering and calling, berating, and abusing teachers over grading and classwork.  I've see and heard of far too many parents who try to browbeat teachers into changing grades or excusing poor behavior on their kids' parts.  The number of kids who don't read any of the information that teachers provide and then wait until the end of the grading period to complain and have their parents complain is just unreasonable.

The combination of unreasonable administration demands and unreasonable kowtowing to parents is chasing teachers away from a profession that most of them love.  Let them get back to teaching and you'll get more people interested in joining the profession.  Until policies change to start curbing administration policies and parental behavior, you are going to continue to have a greater exodus of teachers from the profession than people joining the profession.[/quote]

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