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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Look-teaching is hard and there are good teachers and bad teachers, professional and skilled and unprofessional and unskilled. Like any profession! There’s a weird dynamic reminiscent of the gross police unions where any criticism of any teacher is taken as a shocking moral outrage. Suck it up buttercups-if you’re not a bad teacher no one’s talking abt you. [/quote]

I'm not a teacher, but know the data-- there are an estimated currently .59 possible teachers (not just licensed, this includes provisional and alternately licensed etc.) available for every position (private, public, charter) in the US and the numbers are going down fast.  This is SO much lower than it's ever been. As existing teachers have to cover 1.5x as much it's only going to accelerate.  Add in the heightened vitriol.  So I'm pretty sure it's going to be us parents who are going to have to "suck it up buttercup" as these teachers realize they don't have to put up with unreasonable job conditions.  Excellent, highly experienced teachers are quitting ALL OVER and nobody wants to step in.  [/quote]

I don’t think anyone should stay year after year in a miserable job nor do I think parents need to act like each and every teacher is a hard-working, highly skilled saint. [/quote]

No one has to act like every teacher is a hard-working, highly skilled saint.  (That's part of the problem actually---teachers are put on a pedestal while often being denied basic professional treatment--and then the accountability that comes with that).  We're just saying she can quit like anyone else can.  She doesn't have to be professional in the ways you think she should if she doesn't want to be.  You're free to criticize that, but[b] saying that she's free to quit doesn't mean you're disrespecting teachers, just acknowledging they have the same agency as everyone else even though your kids are depending on them and it's really disappointing. [/b]And pointing out that she's in the power position here--there is a nationwide shortage that is a huge crisis.   You don't actually employ her.  People can elect a different school board, whine about taxes, complain about unions or the lack of unions, but the reality is that many skilled and unskilled, professional and unprofessional teachers are walking out across the whole country--whether schools stayed open or closed during the pandemic, whether they are in red or blue counties and states, rich and poor districts-- and we're all going to have to face this and figure out what to do.  [/quote]

You think you're right.  And I think you're wrong.  Some professions are different, including teaching.  That's known by both teachers and non-teachers.   The expectation of a teacher staying on until the end of the year is understood by all parties.

Maybe the pandemic has changed that.  But I don't think that change will benefit teachers or anyone else.[/quote]

The problem is in insisting that they aren't any different from anyone else but also expecting them to be different.[/quote]

Teenagers give notice before quitting a fast food job. If you don’t want to be held to that high standard fair enough! [/quote]

Wait, just to be sure -- you are claiming most teenagers give notice before quitting a fast food job? [/quote]

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