SweetSue92
Diamond Member
In my very good district, we have a school support member AND a classroom teacher quitting mid-year. This was previously unheard of.
Click the link for the video.
A survey of National Education Association members at the beginning of the year revealed an unsettling truth: More than half of the respondents said they were looking for a way out. That’s an astounding number of unhappy teachers. If they all quit, it would leave millions of students in the lurch.
But were these just empty threats? At the start of this school year, we spoke to over 50 educators in almost 20 states to find out. The picture they painted was far bleaker than we could have imagined: Empty classrooms, kids in crisis, and teachers who can’t survive another day on the job — that’s the reality of American education today.
In the Opinion Video above, six educators explain why they, and the American education system, are at breaking point.
Click the link for the video.
A survey of National Education Association members at the beginning of the year revealed an unsettling truth: More than half of the respondents said they were looking for a way out. That’s an astounding number of unhappy teachers. If they all quit, it would leave millions of students in the lurch.
But were these just empty threats? At the start of this school year, we spoke to over 50 educators in almost 20 states to find out. The picture they painted was far bleaker than we could have imagined: Empty classrooms, kids in crisis, and teachers who can’t survive another day on the job — that’s the reality of American education today.
In the Opinion Video above, six educators explain why they, and the American education system, are at breaking point.
Opinion | Empty Classrooms, Abandoned Kids: Inside America’s Great Teacher Resignation (Published 2022)
It’s never been harder to oversee America’s classrooms, and it’s driving educators out en masse.
www.nytimes.com