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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There isn't any single reason why teachers and other school staff are leaving.  What I've heard from colleagues are:
1) student behavior is out of control (even by teachers known as having really strong management skills)
[b]2) more and more paperwork and other expectations by central office or the state[/b]
3) parents complaining about teachers at school board meetings about silly stuff (nothing with substance or warranted)
4) community members protesting books in the library, mask wearing, etc, etc, etc
5) teaching has always been and always will be really hard and most folks don't make it 30 years +
6) TA's can make significantly more money other places now, with benefits, in easier jobs

I love teaching (except when I'm exhausted and demoralized and then in those times I kinda hate it).  I'm planning an early exit from the profession in the next couple of years.  I hope to still be able to work with children in some capacity after leaving public ed.  For me, #2 is the killer.  [b]That and what I feel to be developmentally inappropriate standards for the little ones I teach.  I don't like being required to do something I feel isn't good for children.  
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I really don't know what will happen in schools long term.  I'm especially worried about sped teacher and students with disabilities.[/quote]

I wish that parents, teachers, and school boards could come together to address these two issues. As a parent of three who have come through the public school system, I have seen how excessive administrative demands (and to a lesser extent, unreasonable standards) can undermine even the most dedicated teachers, making them less patient and less effective. These burdens then play out in ways that parents interpret as teachers not doing their jobs or are phoning it in, which is usually not the case.

The same is true on the parental side too. For every entitled demanding parent arguing about grades, there are so many more beaten down, exhausted parents who find themselves trying to figure out how to keep their struggling students from completely disengaging from the educational process because school is a miserable place to be.

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