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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don’t think we are losing teachers to other systems as much as we are losing teachers to other jobs, or just retiring early.  There was a post on here a while ago from someone saying she was leaving teaching to get an office job at like a PR firm or something like that.  If you are in your 20s and can pivot over to one of the many office type jobs that pay decently where you don’t have to be on your feet talking 6 hours a day and dodging pencils and stuff kids throw at you and breathing in the smell of 35 sweaty teenagers all day long while they make fun of the way you dress or speak…..yeah, that’s attractive. 
I don’t know if they are doing exit interviews and what people say about the pay versus other issues.  I think they need to raise the pay 25%, fix the cap on laterals coming in from other systems (particularly given how many families move to this area from other locations—we are losing out on a lot of training spouse teachers!), and stop giving them lots of new curriculum directives without sufficient time to train on them or create new materials for them.[/quote]

Yes!  Teachers are definitely leaving for other jobs, especially the young teachers.  Enrollment is down for teacher programs so the pool of teachers is getting smaller.[/quote]

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