re: 2/3 of teachers surveyed in Texas considering going peace out

I fully support anyone unhappy with their situation changing it to better suit their wants and needs.

Public education is not designed to make the vast majority of employees wealthy. I imagine there are plenty people getting paid way too much, which is another issue, but when your income comes from tax payers, many of whom don't even use public schools, and you have 3.5 million teachers to pay, excluding administrators, what exactly do you expect? You're not working in a revenue generating industry. Nor are you in one with a particularly high barrier to entry, as far as professions go.

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Who's going to teach your snowflakes then?

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The private school who teaches her now. I just dropped 17k on my little “snowflake’s” education, your children are going to work for her. Presumably some sort of yard work.

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now. I just dropped 17k on my little “snowflake’s” education,

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Philzilla2k

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Good for them. I don’t understand why anyone would want to be a teacher or a cop. Low pay, tons of stress, and always a thankless job on social media.

My fiancé is a middle school teacher in a very red county in SC. She is miserable, despite teaching being her dream profession, and is making a change at the end of the school year to an ESOL position with less students and a different school. The issues I see for teachers now:

The administration at her current school (I think it’s like this at a lot of schools) is horrible. Her principal is a borderline idiot. They keep putting more and more stupid crap on the teachers that has zero to do with teaching. Which I think is really coming from the county administration. It’s a lot of “over educated” left thinking women that think everything has to be micromanaged.

I don’t think pay is actually too low. She has great benefits that people don’t account for (very low health insurance costs). They need to make the pay system more “incentivized” were high performers get bonuses. This is one issue my fiancé has, her students typically outperform averages/expectations on standardized testing, yet she doesn’t get anything from it. Everyone remembers the good teachers they had… reward those teachers with bonuses.

COVID has made the students really dumb. Kids just straight up not doing work anymore. It’s really sad what we as a society did to kids.

One of the things with Hispanic kids (why she’s switching to ESOL)… a lot of them actually do their work because they don’t want to get their parents/family in trouble and deported.

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I know this board loves to hate teachers

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Not sure about that. Most acknowledge that good teachers are worth their weight in gold. Most also acknowledge that are far too few good teachers. And teachers unions are the worst, kids come last.

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Or maybe just focus on teaching... not teaching, lunch duty, after school duty, breaking up fights in the hallways, filling out reports for LEAP stats

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Not to mention that one student can start a rumor and ruin the teacher’s life and career.

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Who's going to teach your snowflakes then?

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For people with any means it will be private schools. Also, Small groups will be taught by a Tudor type people. More one on one, cheaper and way better teaching. It is becoming more popular after Covid.

For public schools, this has been a slow erosion since they have completely removed ability to discipline from teachers and admins. Dems policies almost invariably make life worse for poor (making them reliant on handouts or taking away criminal punishment or taking away discipline in schools), but they continue to vote for dems.

We pulled our kids out of school when we learned they were only being taught evolution theory in science while intelligent design wasn’t even mentioned.