Teachers are stressed, burned out and leaving the profession 

We are tired of NO support from ANYONE. Teachers are mistreated by admin, parents, and students. We are tired and depressed.

The paperwork and data collecting is SO draining. Stop adding this and let teachers teach!

As a veteran soldier and current teacher, I say that teaching is wayyyyyyy tougher and more stressful than being a soldier ever was.

Two biggest problems: lack of respect and poor student behavior. See also: hold parents accountable and stop passing kids just to be passing them.

For me, it’s not about the pay, it’s about RESPECT. The public at large has very little respect for the profession and what we do. The people making the decisions about education haven’t been in a classroom in years if at all. So discouraging!

If teachers were paid for the hours they "really" work, each state would go bankrupt. Teachers work immeasurable hours. Also, the real sad part is, that lawmakers, who have never walked a mile in teachers' shoes, make laws about the direction of education and teacher pay!

With the way children, parents, and pay are….I’d rather work at McDonalds.

I'm an educator, over 12 years now. Any young person considering getting into the field, I try to dissuade. The government, State, etc. does not care about education, nor educators. The stress is out of control. You work into midnight hours, all weekend long, and no compensation. Oh yes, you get the hugs, love and adoration of your darling students; and that love is readily reciprocated, but it does not pay bills, nor regenerate loss mental and physical health. The world cares more about an athlete than the educator or education.

Taught for 23 years. Never again. It isn't worth it.

They expect $500,000 of work out of you for a $50,000 salary ( if you’re lucky

This was going on when I was in school. I'll never forget all the disruptions. The kids who just wouldn't be quiet and listen, sit still, keep their hands to themselves, causing violence, and trying to start verbal and physical altercations with anyone. Some students were so verbally abusive and disrespectful to our teachers that even as a child I worried for my teachers mental health, I just didn't understand it at that time. Now it's even worse. I know someone who was violent as a child, and their parent talks about it like they would go up to the school and try to get the teacher fired for trying to stop a violent and possibly deadly attack. They never once admitted their child was the problem and that they needed to parent them differently. People need to stop putting everything on the teachers. They are there to teach not fix all the issues you caused in your child.

My daughter was a teacher for 2 years and she said they can have this crap.

My sister is always exhausted from work everyday. She works so hard and does her best in teaching the children. Students’ behaviors have become challenging in her life. She has been teaching for 14 years and she gets $3,200 net pay per month. She rents her apartment, pays for her car, and she cannot even save money for her son’s essential needs.

Low pay, benefits are not that great, admin nip picking, not allowed to use our resources, disrespectful students and no parents support. And then they wonder why they are quitting 😒

This is so funny: teachers are telling you EXACTLY what they want/need, but the States and districts aren't willing to do it! And then they wonder why there is a teacher shortage. Teachers are simply asking for better pay (not so-called "competitive" pay), smaller class sizes (by hiring more teachers), better mental health support and social services in the schools for kids, stronger substitute teacher pay...throw in a solid retirement package and a sweet health insurance deal and trust me they will stay! I would have.

It's the same here in Tejas. This is my first year as a teacher, my second year in education and I am OUT! Tomorrow is my last day after the worst 4 months of my life. I feel such relief!! I've been working for 18 years and a middle school art teacher was the worst of all the jobs I've occupied. I'll keep praying for educators because our school system is a hot dumpster fire.

Not just teachers, but other staff that work directly with kids such as teaching assistants. They don't get benefits and it is comparable to minimum wage.

Not being able to pay bills due to low pay, lack of respect from students up to administration. Since many schools got rid of special education classes I am now a special education teacher and have children with severe behavior issues in my class with 25-30 other students, Kimberly said it perfectly; no support from anyone. I resigned at the end of the year and am looking for a job outside of teacher. I just couldn't do it anymore.

Simply put: We're tired of Karents.

The nursing and teaching professions are high burnout occupations minus covid 19.....

Lack of respect…. Increases Workload…Student Behavior …Lackluster Compensation….Loss of Teacher Autonomy (micromanaged curriculum)… Having to wait until lunch or planning period to pee… More meetings with less time to lesson plan or grade papers… Administrator pressure on grade distribution (No zeros/No Fs),

I quit and couldn’t be happier!

Young people, DO NOT go into teaching in the US. It is a stressful and even dangerous profession. If teaching is your true calling, then learn a new language and teach in an Asian country or a Northern European country (Finland or Denmark) where teaching is more respected and therefore more enjoyable.

I’m strongly considering retiring early from my teaching job at the end of this school year. I started teaching in 1989.

Kids have less respect for adults. As their parents aren't teaching that, as they are being the kids friend not parent. Plus parents work and aren't there for them.

You cannot keep beating up teachers, physically, mentally, emotionally and psychotically and wonder why they are beaten down and leaving the profession. It should be a crime how most teachers are treated!

How about Campus Administration, (Principals & Asst. Principals), stop bullying their educators and start telling them that they appreciate their hard work. Stop adding endless tasks to teachers plates without taking anything away. Treat teachers with respect, and maybe the shortage might take care of itself.

As a former teacher I think it would help immensely if administrators from school principals to state chancellors were to openly acknowledge THE FACT that teachers' workloads have risen much faster than salaries have. This is always framed as teachers' opinion. It is not. It is reality. It is fact. Admit it.

Every year that goes by, American educational achievement rates lower and lower compared to other countries. Why?

For me, a teacher's job is to present material, explain the material, test students on the material, and give basic encouragement to all students. Everything else is the parents responsibility like showing up for class (on time), completing homework, learning the material, and all those other social needs. Need to stop being a social workers. Teachers - quit and don't worry about the kids - not your responsibility. Teachers need to pull back and only teach. Parents need to help their children learn if they can't do it themselves.

Strange that nobody wants to work for 40K / year, while being disrespected by society, admins, students...

If education collapses, our entire community will follow and I may need to move to a different country because it’s about to get crazy

My spouse graduated from Teacher's college in 2005, and the statistic she was given by her school was that within 5 years, 50% of the graduates will no longer be teaching school. There were a number of factors that caused this back then, the poor pay, the long hours, the struggles with administration, the unsupportive parents, no child left behind, the increasing behavioral problems in students, and more. The truth is that all those factors that caused teachers to quit are only worse today. Add to that the covid crisis on the education system causing teachers to bail for a number of reason, many of them just realizing how bad their lives were as teachers after they got a break from it and not wishing to return.

TREAT Teachers RIGHT! That is the answer and always has been. Full time aids used to be in every classroom when I went to school. Didn't things get easier so much they aren't needed? And other supprt staff cuts?? It all goes to district officials and paper pushers that haven't set foot in the classroom I'm years!!

I'm not a teacher at all, but just looking at the public school system, I feel like we need to actually tax some of these big businesses and truly fund education and not just in the areas with the "right" zip code. Outside of teachers having better pay, we also need to have teachers on the board to be part of those top down decisions. The fact that many administrators have never been in the class, but are making decisions is a whole problem all around. I also advocate for smaller class rooms. I truly don't feel like class rooms should have more than 25 students and this number should be cut to at least 20 for classes with students who require special education and/or have behavioral issues. Also, there needs to be more adequately funded alternative schools for the children who are disruptors and have parents who aren't able to help these children change their behavior. Not everyone can homeschool their children, but teachers also should have to worry about violence on campus either.

School violence, stress and a really bad pay check every month!!!

I'm a former teacher. Just had enough . Was able to retire and I did.

I could never teach and deal w the kids and parents , Covid and school shootings and political bullshit ... F that noise. ✌🏼

It's partially the pay but mostly the students' behavior and lack of support for teachers that is discouraging. I think they should have an on-site counselor for teachers too because it's all too much.

Take care of our teachers financially

Solution: give them more money. Ya welcome. Labor shortages don't exist.

Teachers have to keep a who classroom of minor safe from shooters like superheros; if we don't honor our heroes with chase behavior they're gone.

My respects to all teachers, they have one of the toughest jobs and still don't get appreciate it

Having a degree and still be making under $60k in some states is sad..

After 10 years as an engineer and manager, I did a career change into High School math teaching. After 1.5 years, I can honestly say it's the most demanding job I've ever had.

Teachers no longer have support. We are alone trying to juggle many hats. Admin and parents do not help us

Your kids are out of control.

I was teacher for almost 10 years I left the profession..... I have no regrets.

Our kids are bad af, it’s their parents fault, and admin is scared because society enables it.

I can tell you that working 55 billable hours weekly as a language interpreter in a hospital and interpreting end of life discussions and psychiatric assessments is MUCH easier on the mind and the body than being a K-12 teacher.

God bless you all 🙏💯❤️💗💖💕🌟🏆 Teachers

I. In my first year and idk how yall made it 23 years. I can't see myself coming back after this year, it was wild

I dunno that it is a more "impactful" time to have a teacher... the kids (and parents) have hearts as hard as stone.

In California, the "Restorative Justice" method has enabled students' bad behaviors (vulgar language, disruptive behavior, physical assaults, destruction of personal and public property, etc) by eliminating consequences. Teachers are blamed for "not having proper classroom management skills."

One of the things I heard the gentleman say, really disturbed me. First most teachers go into this profession because they care deeply for kids and their communities. It sadly is a time we could be making big differences in children’s lives, unfortunately the education systems and devaluation of teachers makes that almost if not in fact impossible today. The work load is crazy and getting worse, takes time out of the classroom and then comes down on teachers for not doing it all, with no additional support or pay. As a retired special education teacher, I was lucky to be able to take an early retirement when I saw what we have today coming down the road at us! Sadly I have a hard time encouraging former students who think they want to teach, especially in special education! These people have big giving hearts but I know they have yet to see the hard reality of what they will experience. The general man seemed to play to this wonderful quality many teachers have and implied that the reward of helping should be enough, or until things change, if my experience tells me anything it is this “not anytime in the near future. The cost of that caring, is to your own family, personal and emotional well being. What other professions that require the amount of education at your own expense, do we ask that of? The truth is, you will be asked to sacrifice a lot! The system, will not Scarface for you and will likely manipulate you ti get what they need. You will not likely get the support you need from administration, state legislators, governors or many parents. Sometimes broken, abusive systems need to break down in order to build something new. Something that sees people and all state holders as more than data points and dollars. Something that measures more than test scores and rankings as well as telling professionals that we do not trust you to do the job you trained for, unless our test scores or behaviors we expect from students meet or expectations. Fix society please teachers no matter the cost to you, if you do fail at this, well it is your fault. Not all the policy makers that set you up for that failure! Sorry but teachers today are in a lose lose situation. That is why we are leaving, guilting and using our compassion and carrying ti shame or guilt us is not only unfair, you set up the game, but frankly immoral! I guess that is what we should expect from a profession mainly populated by women?

Money will not solve the problem, 30 years ago my school district gave teachers a 50% pay raise and we have been near the bottom of state/nation rankings for the past 20 years. Parents need to discipline their children or face consequences!

I have considered entering the teaching profession for decades. I am currently a long term sub in an EC classroom (PreK), lifelong community resident, and mom. But the long, early, leave-home-in-the-dark-morning work hours, enormous class sizes, increase in special ed students with no support, lack of outdoor recess/access to outdoors, increased academic requirements/assessments/testing, and low pay combined have shown me that this is a profession I would never want to enter into seriously, at least in the current environment of a public school classroom. Sad.

The fox is easy to figure out but tough to do. You need to raise pay and condense salary schedule. The pay sucks the job conditions are horrible. Most teachers need one to two extra jobs to get by or have any sense of a middle class life. Why be a chem teacher when a few extra classes you could be a pharmacist? Why get payed like crapping while busting your ass and having a second job when you could leave and work in hr or corporate training etc.

I'm the author of EIGHT DAYS IN AN INNER CITY SCHOOL and I say that the occupational licensing is out of control for k-12 teachers. That's why we have teacher shortages

Great video- This is happening all over the USA.

Parents should home school their child if they can. They'll get individualized learning with no disruptive students, stressed teachers, worry of school shootings, etc...If not, then hang in there, but don't expect it to get better.

Admin are the worst offenders. I am a science teacher. Help me grow.. esp with the difficult students. I'm tired of playing hide the pink slip until May.

Each class need 2 teachers for every subject to finish the load of work, now somehow done by a single teacher working day and night.

Many substitute teachers are over 65, with deaths due to covid last year, on going threat of breakthrough infections and new variants don't expect them to return to the classroom anytime soon.

Close these huge public government run schools and go back to small community based schools!!!

How did we get here? I can answer that! Bureaucracy!

15 teachers out, that's a Tuesday for our school. Ha ha ha. WE have in the 20's of absent teachers for multiple reasons, not just illness. Many of us are covering subjects not in our field. I think a solution would be to pay subs more. Subs don't make enough money for their risk. It isn't worth it If I were a sub. Our school is great, but we need more help. Best wishes ya'll

Administrations seem much more interested in working with the politics of maintaining the school that they seem to forget the schools themselves. Lack of good parenting has its effects as well, such as parents seeing schools as daycare and has come to that due to schools passing kids to the next grade regardless of how poorly they do. If the schools don't care how well the kids do, why should the parents?

Those are totally stock/staged clips of students in the classrooms… because they’re all wearing their masks perfectly.

Pandemic isn’t the problem. By the end of the year teachers are WORE OUT and tired of the BS they have to take from the students. I’ve been teaching 29 years and student behaviors are getting worse! Pay compensation is horrible compared to other professional occupations.

Problems that teachers face are: 1. Administrators do NOT support the teachers and are a major problems more worried about their jobs and have the large salaries, 2. Students attitudes and behaviors are unbelievable every parent has raised a saint but they really know how they act and behave, and 3. Parents always blame teachers while they know the real story…”helicopter parents”. I taught for 36 years before I retired…I had more than my share of all of the above! The last ten years were filled with endless paper work for teachers and admin telling teachers how to teach their classes when they were never in the classroom as a teacher.

You never addressed why the lack of funds and who is responsible for it!

What’s the solution is the million dollar question? Haha, no it’s the $45k with $100k debt question

Homeschooling

I literally have parents saying, I don’t care if you get an F in this class, I only care about these classes. So I happily give out Fs

Say exactly what the problem is. Stop beating around the bush!

This bullshit was a problem when I was a kid in the 80s. Educational deterioration has been going on for decades. Nevada is worse than Oregon, you couldnt pay me enough to be a teacher anywhere but NewJersey, Massachussets or Colorado but I would never move to any of them because I hate cold weather.

THE PROBLEM IS INSTEAD OF ADDRESSING PROBLEMS ,STATES SPEND MILLIONS ON SPECIAL INTERESTS AND ADMINISTRASTORS ,ADMINISTRATORS SHOULD HAVE TO TEACHER AT LEAST ONE PERIOD DURING EACH DAY AND EXPERIENCE WHAT'S HAPPENING IN THE CLASSROOM AND NOT A HOMEROOM PERIOD

Having to indulge children's gender and species fantasies is also contributing to teachers leaving and parents pulling their kids out of public schools these days.

Yep glad she mentioned the recession of 2008. After that recession there were 500,000 fewer teachers in the USA. I met an art teacher who had been laid off who was working at an ice cream shop. Don't know if she ever got another job later in teaching or moved onto something else. The demonization of teachers during that era was brutal.

Quit a year ago, i have no regrets and no hope for the future generation. It''s over, enjoy your wonderful diversity everybody.

With teacher and substitute shortage getting more worse everyday, Hate to see public education collapse and not exist anymore, it’s looking like that everyday. parents will have to homeschool their kid. Maybe the DOE should collapse so the govt can wake up and realize the problem. Teachers are not labored slaves dispensable. Admin and the govt Need to start treating teachers like normal human beings

STOP CALLING IT BURN OUT. ITS EXPLOITATION. THANK YOU. 🙄

The real problem is the parents are mostly idiots who unrealistically demand that their kids all get pointed towards college no matter how intellectually limited they are. Then also these parents think that their little monsters can do no wrong, supply them with smart phones they can play with while in school, and casually tell them over the dinner table that their teachers are all full of shit.

I am not optimistic about a solution being found, because the people who are supposed to fix the problem are the same people that caused the problem. They have always blamed the teachers and the curriculum instead of figuring out what the real underlying problems are. Simply paying teahers more is not going to fix the problem. A complete change of mindset is needed.

It's not... run lol... run far far away.

You're not getting higher compensation. Voters in Calif. rejected baseless demands for more education funding. Prop 15 lost-- and the election was honest, right? CalSTRS is $100 billion in debt.

"Fragile, teachers are fragile."

Meritocratic discourse an teacher appreciation are inversely proportional in any society, which is to be expected. The more Mr John the engineer believes thatvhr got where he is cause of his own merits, the less he can think that he got there cause a series of professionals managed to explain math to him in a way that made sense and carried him through highschool and college.

I've never been more happy that we homeschool, after reading the cryfest comments....

The reporters sound like “there have been shortages before” like they are talking about the cafeteria running out of apples or oranges. Consistency in the classroom s important. The impact of 15 teachers out in a day is tremendous. Reporters it’s like having regular computer needs (40 computers) but you and everyone only having 10 working/available to you. Teachers and substitutes are pulled from the planning period to cover classes. Librarians, aides, Secretaries, administration can not do the work they are assigned. If the Janitor is now your Cameraman will you be happy or produce a good news show. NO! Work as a substitute for a week in a short staff school and see if you still have such a lackadaisical attitude.

The bigger problem is student behaviors and a lack of discipline. There’s no real incentives for students to behave and so they don’t. And when they don’t, they produce unsafe environments for themselves and for other students. Next would be micro managing from admins who have no real understanding if their methods actually work and just use teachers as a scape goat when they don’t.

No more full-time. Even though I’m along in the Salary Schedule. Back to subbing.

Why does your boss hate children ...ask that question lady why would my boss hate children

How do you teach feral children? How does society get a handle on this? Discipline! Respect! Manners! Meaningful training for a successful future!

i think at this point, public education should be optional for a short multi-year period. The issue is that more and more kids in the classroom just don't have any motivation to learn as teachers as forced to followed a regimented cirriculum. badly performing students can't be fully punished since they have to be allowed to go to some school at the moment. Any students that are disruptive and whose parents are enabling and not holding themselves accountable should be asked to leave the school. Eventually all the bad kids will be kicked out of every school and be forced to be home schooled or learn some kind of vocational trade. And the students that want to learn can focus with less disruptions. Eventually people will realize education is a privilege and not a glorified daycare. Honestly think most people would be better off working on their own projects in the real world than sitting in a classroom all day anyways.

Well no shii y’all don’t pay enough for this bs

Can’t pay me a million dollars to go back to special ed. It’s not the bad behavior. It’s the being two teachers for the price of 1. Never paying for curriculum needed, but expect you to teach the subject. Dish that out of your own pocket, not mine.

Teachers teach subject matter

Low pay for teachers