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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If they don't get the respect and income they think they deserve, why stay?[/quote]

Thousands quit every year. Some between the last day of school and the start of a new year. Some in the middle of the year. A few in the middle of class.

Those who stay almost always are those who love kids and understand the children are not the problem. Even in a tough school, the children aren’t the root cause of the chaos. And sometimes, for the toughest kids, a particular teacher is the lifeline.[b] Leaving means being just one more person who gave up on them. So the teachers stay, work a couple side jobs, get stress-related illnesses, and keep teaching.[/b] At least, that’s what my mom did. Her last year, she taught a sixth grader whose grandmother she had a student. [/quote]

PP, I agree with most of your post, but will have to disagree with your premise that those who "leave" do not care about the children. If you are a teacher, and have a family to support, and are being subjected to many of the challenges faced in schools WITH LOW PAY and VERY LITTLE SUPPORT, and can find better elsewhere for your health, your family's health and wellbeing, you will do that.  Your mother, my mother were both teachers. I know why my mother kept teaching : She of course loved her students, but did not like everything else about the job. She stayed for the family health care coverage, for holidays and summers with her children, for a guaranteed retirement check...for the stability it provides working mothers or working parents.  If the United States had universal health care coverage and a national pension/retirement system that applied to all forms of work, perhaps she would have taken the chance to find greener pastures/opportunities elsewhere.[/quote]

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