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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Teaching was a cushy job a decade ago.  Now with so many jobs that can be done from home, there are so many more options.

I find this refreshing.  In the past, many teachers chose the profession because of the hours and summers off.  Now that covid has come and gone, teachers who have gotten a taste of WFH will seek out other careers.  The hope is that those who actually decide on this profession do so because of the joy of teaching, not because of summers off or other conveniences.[/quote]

Frankly, we've spent the last decade or two completely devaluing the worth of teachers.  School systems have added a host of horrible stupid bureaucracy including mandatory training, mandatory meetings, endless streams of documentation of what they are doing that must be provided for district administration, school administration. parents, students.  There have been so many guidelines on what is taught and how it is taught that the overhead for their job is adding many hours per week to what they are required to do outside of class time.  And throughout this, school systems have decreased compensation.  Teachers salaries are not even matching inflation and COLA and they are paid horribly relative to their general level of education.  In addition, schools have cut budgets for supplies, classroom resources, and even basics like tissues, hand sanitizer, soap and paper towels.  Teachers have had to buy those and supplies like markers, pencils, paper, etc out of pocket to support their classrooms.  I know dozens of teachers in multiple school districts (I am not a teacher, I just know many) and I don't know a single one that hasn't had to provide supplies and basics out of pocket to support their students.

At this point, almost all school districts have had rounds of early retirement, abrupt unplanned retirement and teachers leaving the profession.  They are understaffed and have more openings than they can find qualified teachers to fill.  Hopefully this will make school districts understand that they need to start reprioritizing and maybe start paying teachers what they are worth to fill positions.[/quote]

Basically, this has been the condition of employment for most people for the last 30 years. Shrinking budgets. Fewer raises. More work for less pay. It's not unique to education at all.[/quote]

Yes, but our kids education is so important... ... ...[/quote]

And teachers have been doing an increasingly lackluster job of it. Their problems aren't special. They're just whiny and entitled.[/quote]

Speak for yourself.  In our school, the teachers have been doing an amazing job.  They have been working many many extra hours to rebuild lesson plans around the original virtual and now hybrid environment to ensure that children in person and children at home remotely on-line all learn.  Trying to handle the myriad different situations with some students in the classroom, plus some that are on-line has been challenging, to say the least, and difficult in many situations.  Having a school system that has changed the tools that the teachers user more than once in the schoolyear and the teachers having to adapt to changing technology and tools repeatedly throughout the year has been exasperating.  I'm supervising my two ES children at home and watching the hoops that the teachers are constantly having to jump through.  I truly feel for them.  And when they switched mid-quarter to hybrid and suddenly the teachers have to deal with half the class in person and half the class on-line has not been well served.  This hybrid sh*t is just terrible and terribly implemented.  They should have put children that were in-person in one class with one teacher and children on-line with another teacher regardless of tracking.  No one is well served by teachers that are going around the classroom working with some children while ignoring the on-line students, then going back to the computer to help the on-line children while ignoring the in-person kids.

Our teachers have been workign many extra hours and doing a superb job with constantly changing constraints to their teaching.  Yes, trying to teach in a hybrid environment with the conditions changing weekly on them is a special problem that most of us whether we have gotten to go back to work in-person or are still teleworking are not encountering.  I can't think of another job that has the parameters of working changing on a weekly basis for 4-6 weeks.

If anyone, the ones I find that are whiny and entitled are the parents who want the free childcare and don't even know what their children are doing.

No, I'm not a teacher, and yes, I am going to work some of the time and teleworking some of the time.  So, while my work conditions are varying, it is nowhere near as much as my kids' teachers.[/quote]

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