Teachers are leaving. Why?

The reason people are not entering teaching is because they understand why people are leaving teaching.

The reason does not even begin to be addressed by; "...along with lack of respect for teachers..."

Saying that is one of the reasons teachers leave teaching is like saying heat is part of the reason for fire.

There should be a rule; you don't get to write about what teaching is like, unless you do a little teaching.

It is a remarkably easy for a good and qualified person to become a substitute teacher.

"Teach" in a regular classroom with a bunch of run of the mill kids who don't particularly want to be there.

A few of them want to learn and are as cooperative as they can possibly be. Most are capable of inadvertent misbehavior but respond to correction. A few do not respond to correction. A few of them do not respond to correction all day long.

The failure to prevent in particular, "chronically disruptive", students from interfering with the education of other students is an executive and administrative failure.

The school board will not write policies that prevent disruption of educationally efficient environments. The administration will not enforce such policies as they have.

 

If you really want to call a spade a spade; neither will politicians take a stand in favor of under control classrooms and schools.

Therefore, we will not talk about (or investigate and report upon) out of control classrooms and schools, and about why people are really leaving teaching.