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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]My wife is leaving mostly because of the parents.  [/quote]
So is my wife.[/quote]
What did parents do or say that was different this year?  If parents were inappropriate, why didn't the administration back your wives up?[/quote]

HAHAHAHAHAHA[/quote]

Oh, sweet summer child…things got very, very ugly over the last 2 years. I won’t give details of the offenses because I don’t want to make myself identifiable. Some of my colleagues were very publicly harassed, to the point of having to file restraining orders. Admin is terrified of parents and looks the other way. 
This shortage isn’t about the superintendent or hiring practices (although mcps has a long history of preferring to hire brand new teachers), this is teacher burnout en masse. [/quote]

Harassment is never ok and I genuinely sympathize with teachers that are burned out. The kids are burned out too. It's funny, the union always says what is good for teachers is good for kids but somehow they don't seem to believe in the reverse.[/quote]

I read this three times and still have no clue what you were trying to say[/quote]

I'm saying the union spent a long time arguing that what is good for teachers is good for kids, but they didn't want to understand that what is good for kids (in person schooling) would be good for teachers. Hopefully we won't repeat this in the future and further decimate our public school system.[/quote]

You've seen great resignations in different job fields all over America, watched parents harass teachers for two years, and this is the conclusion you drew? Got it[/quote]

So are teachers resigning because they have to work in person or because parents are harassing them? Or could there possibly be multiple factors, including the difficulty of teaching kids after a year+ of virtual instruction? [/quote]

I think a lot of teachers during the pandemic realized that their quality of life could be greatly improved by not being a teacher, for many reasons. One of which is that WFH is a beautiful thing that does not work for teachers during non emergency times. I'm sure a lot of teachers sought out WFH jobs with more flexibility and better pay after this year, and I can't blame them.

It doesn't really matter how well paying a school district is when pay still isn't really comparable to other fields with similar experience and more flexible hours. Teachers do their job often for the service aspect; once parents started trashing them it really took the heart out of that part.[/quote]

I’m curious- what better paying, more flexible jobs are teachers leaving for?  My cousin with an education degree decided a few years ago they didn’t want to teach and went to work for a textbook company, but I don’t know how common those types of jobs are.[/quote]

Maybe a job where you can use the restroom according to your own needs, go off site for lunch, and schedule a doctor’s visit. [/quote]

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