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[quote=Anonymous][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.  [b]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.[/b]  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]

I would not have quit if they were hounding me about grades and behavior. THAT, I expect. But, as a 1st grade teacher, I was inundated (8 - 17 emails a week) about missing lunch kits, bringing home the wrong folder, their child needs help with their clothing, a 2 hour meeting on learning correct signing and secret checklist folders for a child's bathroom problems (yes, this really happened), parents changing a child's transportation or me collecting a second set of things for a child to go home with another parent 20 MINUTES BEFORE DISMISSAL, angry email's about me removing their child's cricut monogram sticker on a chromebook because they did not read the policy that it is not theirs and I have to remove it before sending it back to warehouse, and my favorite: please use this comb I send in to brush my child's hair before dismissal so that it does not look a mess when I pick her up. I literally counted the hours until this school year and that chapter of my life ended. What a nightmare. Parents, this is just too much. If I ever want to have kids, I vow never to be like this. [/quote]

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