Investigative Reporter Katie LaGrone obtained the most recent batch of Florida teacher exit interviews which detail, in their own words, why teachers left the classroom this summer.
My daughter taught in Palm Beach County for five years. The parents, administration, and state policies were simply ridiculous. She moved to Europe two years ago, where she now receives health care, can afford her own apartment, and saves money.
people have become literally evil since 2017. I was a medical assistant for 13 years and I left in 2020, tired of watching me and my coworkers getting literally abused and attacked by rich entitled old people we're trying to take care of. McDonalds workers were making over $20/hr while I was managing medications and cares for so much less. I'd love to leave this country too...
Funny thing is she's getting all that free money because the US takes care of over 50% of Europe defense budget. Take that away, and she'll be playing alliance to Putin.
Florida is one of the lowest paying states for nursing as well. I don’t understand how they have been able to pull that off. I truly believe the hospitals have some of the best lobbyists in the country. Sad to hear teachers are going thru it too.
As a teacher I can confidently say those two aspiring teachers interviewed won't last 3 years. I went in knowing the shite I would deal with and was very realistic the entire way through. The people i was in ed school with with their attitudes didn't make 2 years.
Yes! I studied cyber security and as soon as someone heard I had a teaching degree I got snapped up. Was getting paid before I finished studying. Didn't end up continuing as I realised I hated offices but teachers can get so much more by leaving teaching.
@@WinnietheDepressedBear Cyber security is a whole other ball game, especially back then, there were no boot camps and few degree majors for it. I've seen people WITH cyber security master degrees NOT make the cut because they dont have the natural skills needed to be successful. The interview process is all "show me what you know", you can't talk your way through it. I hate to say it but, it's almost like something you're born with that's very difficult to teach and hard to learn. You need to be a hardcore self starter.
Discipline should be ALLOWED to start at home and continue into the classroom. When a kid knows their parents are going to get a call from the school because of something stupid, the kid should be afraid of the consequences.
Teachers have always been paid poorly. That is not news. It's these brat kids. Why get paid poorly AND get disrespected by these kids. I work in the system and I can't count how many people are leaving after this year.
@mdm5216 It's because the last generation of teachers banned the Bible and replaced it with Marxism. Teachers educated society out of its moral values. How can you not figure this out?
FL is 50th in average teacher pay! Why wouldn’t every teacher in FL just move to GA & get a 30% bump in pay for the same work? Do you see the problem now?!?
I don't blame teachers for wanting to leave. Kids today are ungrateful, violent, and out of control today on a scale never before seen. Parents don't parent - let alone discipline their kids, they expect the schools to do that for them, parents don't support the teachers in any way, social media has influenced and ruined their kids behavior.
I thought about going in to education in the early 2000s, but when I saw the reality teachers were up against, I pivoted far away. I don't regret that choice at all.
This is also a result of parents choice. Parents are not experts on childhood education. Getting someone pregnant or Getting pregnant doesn't make u an epert in childhood learning. People need to wake up. Why educate teachers if we wont listen to them. U might as well let the parents teach whatever they feel like since they know best.
If the money the governor has wasted on book bans, defending stupid laws the government has passed, election police and now investigating people who signed petions there would be a lot more money for education.
Ah.... deluded little children 😂😂😂 talk to them in five years and see how those beautiful sentiments survive. I taught for 34 years at the college level and though my students were wonderful, administration was horrible.
My entire life people tell me that I should be a teacher, because of my clear communication style and ability to make things interesting. But, I would NEVER choose to be a teacher and it has never been an aspiration for me. Teaching is a bad job.
I thought about teaching at one but quickly figured out its not for me. Teachers are underappreciated, administrations for most schools in adequate, parents delegate their child's success in teachers hands only, formal education is undervalued, and lots of children are disruptive and disrespectful. Its sad and unfortunate that teachers are not compensated as they should be for all the time and energy required of them.
neck in neck between Oklahoma, Arkansas, Missouri, Louisiana, Mississippi, West Virginia, South Dakota, Tennessee, and Kentucky for last place in Education, State Employees and Teacher Pay! Top place for "Most Religious", Anti-Labor, Right To Work, At Will, Mandatory Arbitration, subhuman minimum wage. Your Tax Cuts at work!
My cousin Jennifer got her masters degree in administrative teaching. Salary 20,000. in FL. she moved out of state to Tennessee were they pay alot more in just starting. Salary for administrative teaching. 50,000 a year. and she has kids. Single parent. she did it for the kids and herself. FL does not want to pay anyone anything ever.
They're not scared away from the profession because they're desperate for work. They're also likely facing thousands in debt. Sooner or later they will make the exact same choice.
If anything they are leaving because of the cost of living increase because regardless of what people think parents still have limited powered. Let me know what school is understaffed Also students are becoming more aggressive towards teachers as well Leave it to you guys
When the government controls schools this is What you get the government tells his teachers what to teach yet they’re not in the classroom.. my hope is they all closed down and teachers become independent self employed 😂
When teachers apply for a job in private industry, and are told that that there are 240 work days per year, they head back to the classroom, and take the three months summer vacation.
Teaching should only be used to start your career off. Very low threshold to get into. Sub for a year and some change, Full-time for a year or so and then pivot as soon as possible. Teaching is genuinely an “entry level “ job that doesn’t ask for 3 years experience.
Maybe the lowest paid. Work 9 months of the year, free education for master and doctorate. Also, mandatory pay raises. Extra pay with additional jobs and over time. Where does a 20 year out of collage or working for a degree get this money, plus full benefits.
Startint pay should be 100k per year for teachers. Otherwise they should all go on strike and let those kids just sit ar home until they start lives of crime just to quit being bored.
