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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]While I support work life balance for teachers, I also think kids are going to suffer as a result. The reality is that teaching is a really important job because you are shaping young lives. Some kids have more support at home than others, and teachers can be life-changing for the kids that don’t have that home support. I do think previous generations of teachers were willing to make that sacrifice because they believed in what they were doing and had a passion for it despite the low pay. Society definitely has changed. I wish we could just make teaching a really high paying profession so that people would at least feel like the trade-off is worth it. Obviously in some other professions the work life balance is not so good but people feel that the pay makes it worthwhile.[/quote]

The thing is is that teacher pay has never been great, so there’s something or tings affecting the profession beyond pay. [/quote]

1. Women are encouraged towards male dominated jobs now and teachers are not respected. A bright young woman is not going to be pushed towards teaching, it’s kind of seen as a dumb major or for girls without a lot of ambition.

2.  Priced out of the housing market. This applies to a lot of different jobs. I haven’t been in the profession or in in NOVA long enough to say but it seems as though teaching used to provide enough to buy a modest home and now getting any type of home is a stretch. A lot of these teachers are commuting from a very long way in order to purchase a home. I have met some that commute from Fredericksburg and I have met one that comes from West Virginia.

3. Multiple societal shifts. Women get married later in life now so teachers have to live on single incomes for longer. Women have children later so the summers off benefit doesn’t mean much. The Remote work, work life balance, and unlimited PTO that is common in corporate settings is leaving teaching in the dust.[/quote]

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