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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Entitled Parents:  "If you don't like your working conditions, quit."
Also Entitled Parents:  "What...what do you MEAN you QUIT?  You horrible monster!  What about THE CHILDRENNNNNN????"[/quote]

Yep. Teachers aren't indentured servants. [b]I don't want to hear another contrived news story about the teacher shortage. If the jobs aren't filling it's because the compensation and condition[/b]s are poor. The market bhas spoken. End of story. The entitled parents won't care until principals in their schools are hiring J1 Visa teachers from abroad. I hope you all don't overspend on your house because your ZIP code entitles you to nothing in any public school system![/quote]

This has been a common theme when unemployment was low, jobs with poor pay/conditions can't compete. We shall see what happens in this recession. Although nthis recession has impacted more people in low wage retail/food service/entertainint jobs[/quote]

States still had lists of content area shortages back in 2008.  The people who leave have options and the ones who don't will stay.

Education programs in colleges/universities also aren't training as many teachers so the supply of young, fresh blood for the churn and burn is low as well. I don't think economic downturn will lead to improved teacher quality nor higher parent/student satisfaction.

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I have stayed despite having options —teaching is my second career. I wanted to serve my community. I thought of the teachers I had that made so huge a difference for me as a poor child. I ended up stuck in MCPS teaching mostly the children of DCUM. Transferred 3x to schools with high farms rates, always got assigned to programs and classes with middle class students. Pre-pandemic, thought about getting dual certified in ESOL to stop that bait and switch. Now I might just want out period. I am not serving the kids I wanted to and the kids I do teach have such horrible parents. [/quote]

If you want out, get out! I left the classroom and have zero regrets. 👍[/quote]

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