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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]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]

Ah. Tell me you are not a medical provider without telling me you are not a medical provider. :)

I closed down a clinic and gave every family 6 months advance notice, and paid about $1200 to send out letters to everyone at the address on record, and worked on finding everyone another provider that didn't have someone in mind (and paid my staff to help me do this), and didn't charge any fees for printing out records and sending them to the new provider with a summary for any complicated patients ...

... and got reviewed poorly online for "abandoning" my patients, and had 2-3 calls a week berating my front desk staff, and on and on.[/quote]

Neat. I’ll bet that was a minority of your hundreds of patients, and they are entitled fools — just like the people complaining here about teachers.[/quote]

it was a minority in the thousands of patients I carried.

(The average panel for a primary care provider a couple of decades ago was about 2400, and I believe it has increased since then.)[/quote]

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