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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]That sucks, and I'm sorry.  There must be something really difficult going on in that teacher's life right to make such a decision.[/quote]
She probably got fed up with the a-hole parents.[/quote]

Honestly, this is probably accurate. [/quote]

I wouldn't blame her. [/quote]

Not this late in the year. It’s unprofessional and rude. Anyone can work another 6 weeks. That’s a really $hitty thing to do to her students. Just finish the damn year and move on. [/quote]

Why should she wait six weeks? Teachers don't get paid for the summer. So her leaving now for a better job means a better financial future long-term. OP doesn't like it I'm sure she knows were the sub sign-up forms are. It won't even be that long, just six weeks.  :lol: [/quote]

Wow, the disrespect towards teachers just doesn't stop.[/quote]

DP: Why is this disrespect?  Teachers are supposed to give up better financial offers just because you think they should conform to your idea of professionalism?  They owe it to their students?  The same teachers who routinely get pink slips every spring and often don't know if/where they are going to work the next year until mid-summer?  The same teachers who have been putting up with a ton of crap from so many angles the past few years?   Putting teachers on a pedestal who will suffer through anything--give up their own and their family's well-being-- for their students is not "respect"  it's an unreasonable expectation.  To couch it as 'respect' is just extra gaslighting.  These and many other unreasonable demands are what is gutting the teacher profession.  Sure, I'd prefer a teacher--or any worker-- not quit without notice but I can totally understand why someone would if they are at the breaking point.  And only hr and the teacher know the actual situation, not OP.   But if we don't course correct on demands on teachers, the issue is not whether you'll have the same teacher for the next month or so, but whether you'll have any at all next year.[/quote]

Spare us your union BS.  Unprofessional behavior is unprofessional behavior in any field.  [/quote]

Live in denial of the growing teacher shortage then.  [/quote]

Devaluing professionalism will surely solve the problem![/quote]

People in the private sector job hop ALL the time. You get an offer for more pay, better benefits, you take it because the offer doesn’t lash forever. [b]Teaching is the ONLY job where we assign some moral failure to leaving it.[/b] I’m a teacher and I enjoy it but let’s be clear, this is my job. Just like your job is your job. It is not my life. The job does not love me back. If I die tomorrow, they will list my position, fill it, and move on. My number one priority ALWAYS is my family and my own health. As it should be for everyone. [/quote]

I'll add to that vets, docs, and nurses -- all of which are professions experiencing record burnout right now, after a pandemic which placed more burden on them as helping professionals and yet which so many others felt fine about dumping their frustrations and anger on.[/quote]

No we don't. People expect vets, docs and nurses to move on if they get a better offer elsewhere. No one expects an PA to stick with a job where there is another job down the road offering more money or better working conditions [/quote]

PAs, vets, lawyers, and other professionals may not abandon existing responsibilities (ongoing care of patients, pending litigation, etc.) without alternative arrangements. Lawyers need permission to withdraw from cases. Medical professionals, including veterinarians, can't abandon patients with ongoing medical conditions needing management without allowing their patients or clients a reasonable opportunity to obtain other care. Doing otherwise would violate the standard of care, which can result in an action against the professional license. In these discussions, there is a distinction between leaving a job to make more money and the circumstances when a professional's obligation to existing patients or clients can be abandoned. People are arguing that students' needs play no role in discussions about teacher departures, which is in contrast to other these other professions. [/quote]

Students and parents aren't teachers clients or employers.  Yes, schools are required to put your child somewhere, get an adult in the room, but the teacher isn't hired by you or your student so is not required.  Schools ARE providing replacement situations--your kid isn't locked out of the school with nowhere to go--you just aren't happy that they have to.[/quote]

You admit it. Students and their families are nothing in the process of education. Teaching is just a job that exists as a relationship between the district employer and teachers. What's best for students and their families is irrelevant, and they should shut up and be satisfied with whatever they are given. [/quote]

This is what I learned during the pandemic.  Parents and students are not stakeholders.  Students are customers or clients or really anything at all, to school administration and the school board.  [/quote]

This is false.  They just didn't comply with what you particularly wanted.[/quote]

I wish it were.  I guess you didn't watch the school board meetings closely.  It's not that they "just didn't comply with what I particularly wanted".  It's that I learned that teachers are stakeholders, which is reasonable.  And that parents and students aren't.[/quote]

I watched school board meetings and was appalled by a lot of parents.[/quote]

+1[/quote]

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