Want to RETAIN teachers? Do THESE!
•Make smaller class sizes happen
•Listen and Advocate to teacher concerns
•Improve the response to student behavioral issues
•Increase planning time
•Improve salaries
•Let teachers TEACH!
I told the baby to stop throwing her cup and she immediately grabbed it, took a long drink, threw it across the room and then looked me dead in the eye and said, "Uh oh."
Just remembering that one time I got COVID at 37 weeks pregnant, FROM A STUDENT in my class, & my school district took my 2 week COVID time out of my maternity leave. Oh and expected me to zoom from the hospital bed 🤬 a year and a half later & I’m still salty.
Had all those teachers who did five years got fed up and left, stayed. We wouldn’t have such a shortage of teachers.
It’s not just a recruitment issue, it’s retention.
We need to look at what’s gone so wrong with teaching.
I want anyone who hasn’t birthed a baby to sit this convo out. Postpartum hormones are like nothing I’ve ever experienced. I had PPD so bad I fantasized about getting in my car and driving away by myself. The lack of maternal mental health care in this country should be a crime.
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“Teachers need to either stop complaining or quit!”
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Teachers are leaving the profession at record rates. America is currently short 300,000 teachers.
NOW WHAT?
Districts or schools that remove students from physical education, music, Arts, or other classes to remediate them in other areas, have no idea of the immediate and long term damage they are doing to these students. These may be classes that help them love school.