Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:People quit jobs all the time and everyone survives. Teachers should be allowed to quit like everyone else.

Teachers and some other jobs are different. Just because you prefer to deny it doesn't mean it isn't so.

Really? Please cite the laws and regulations you are drawing your superior knowledge from.

For one thing, it's written into the contract...

Anonymous wrote:Some people, and teachers, are truly selfless and that is an amazing and wonderful thing... but no one is obligated to be, and that is totally okay. How exactly would you enforce 'not being allowed to quit?' Chain them to a desk? Everyone is free, and that is even more important than how you or your child feel about it. Turn it into a life lesson opportunity, OP

At one time, people took pride in their professions, and contracts were written in a way to enforce that for those who didn't. Getting blacklisted was a real threat and deterrent. But over the past recent decades, companies have demonstrated their lack of loyalty to their employees and employees have learned to have no loyalty in return. It has taken additional time but the same shift has now finally happened in teaching. Professionalism is no longer the norm, in either direction, blacklisting is no longer a threat, and now contracts are no longer sacrosanct. They're breakable. And getting broken.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:People quit jobs all the time and everyone survives. Teachers should be allowed to quit like everyone else.

Teachers and some other jobs are different. Just because you prefer to deny it doesn't mean it isn't so.

Really? Please cite the laws and regulations you are drawing your superior knowledge from.

I am pretty confident we'll see a lot of vacancies next week.

I’m a principal. I spent most of December giving gifts, having fun events, visiting with teachers and doing everything possible to show the love. Basically it was a please-don’t-quit-over-break campaign. It’s a hard time to be a teacher.

You have no idea what happened in her life, OP. Stop it.

Prepare for much more - here’s another thread that describes why all the teachers are leaving with some ideas on now the community can help:

https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/1097207.page

Taxpayers need to put up or shut up.

Some people, and teachers, are truly selfless and that is an amazing and wonderful thing... but no one is obligated to be, and that is totally okay. How exactly would you enforce 'not being allowed to quit?' Chain them to a desk? Everyone is free, and that is even more important than how you or your child feel about it. Turn it into a life lesson opportunity, OP

Anonymous wrote:People quit jobs all the time and everyone survives. Teachers should be allowed to quit like everyone else.

Teachers and some other jobs are different. Just because you prefer to deny it doesn't mean it isn't so.

A lot more teachers are/will be leaving.

OP…you are being ridiculous.

Oh, you want to be drawn and quartered on DCUM, do you?

She could have a medical crisis. I had one at 25, that took 6 months to resolve.

She could have a family crisis.

She could feel so burnt out, bullied by parents and straightjacketed by administrators, that she decided she needed another work environment, or another profession.

Stopping people from leaving work is ENSLAVEMENT.
Are you proposing we go back to those times, OP?
Really?

I’m sorry…are you not allowed to quit your job? Why can’t a teacher quit? Heck, the POPE was allowed to quit his job.

People quit jobs all the time and everyone survives. Teachers should be allowed to quit like everyone else.

My DS high school biology teacher isn’t coming back, she was young and I’m not sure why she is going to do with her life now, or she going to go back to mommy and daddy house, but a teacher shouldn’t be allowed to quit halfway though the year. Student loved and her, and to one paragraph email saying you’re quitting isn’t okay in my book.