More than half of U.S. teachers are considering leaving the profession: Survey

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

The U.S. teachers shortage could be getting worse.

A March 2022 survey from the National Education Association (NEA) showed that more than half of teachers (55%) intend to leave the profession earlier than they planned, and that was before the elementary school shooting in Uvalde, Texas.

“90% of teachers are saying they’re really thinking about what happened in Uvalde and what that means for them,” American Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten said on Yahoo Finance Live (video above). “It doesn’t mean they’re going to leave. It doesn’t mean they’re going to stay. But the impact has been huge across the country.”

In response to the devastating shooting, a bipartisan group of 20 senators recently agreed on framework for a gun safety bill that would include enhanced background checks for those under 21 purchasing guns, funding for mental health and school safety, and state grants for red flag laws.

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/more-than-half-of-us-teachers-are-considering-leaving-164708586.html

[brush]

1. Many have to be scared for their lives while in the...

classroom, wondering if that day might be the day a crazed gunman will come in shooting.

And kids have to be afraid also. The NRA and republcans blocking gun safety laws have failed them.

[jimfields33]

2. I thought it passed. We have a new gun control bill.

It has been mentioned here a lot.

[brush]

5. A bill did pass. I don't know the particulars.

I'll have to do my research as I've heard it doesn't go far enough.

[tenderfoot]

8. It's toothless bullshit

I think you have to get a note from your mom to buy the same gun used in Uvalde and that's about it.

[Igel]

12. Two things.

The House passed a bill that almost certainly won't pass the Senate.

The Senate has a tentative outline but there's no text yet, so it hasn't even been introduced.

People are yawning over the Senate bill, but once the bill's introduced and proceeds to debate, it can't be yanked--even if it's heavily amended. What happens depends on those who cooperated on the new bill.

[Thomas Hurt]

3. the christofascists will step up and take over...

[Nevilledog]

4. They want to destroy public education. Full stop.

[lindysalsagal]

6. And losing teachers will accomplish that. I effing hate the evangelicals.

[Initech]

7. That's exactly what Fox News wants.

Education by and for the Murdoch cult.

[TheFarseer]

9. Discussing this with RW family recently

They declared it was because they didn’t want to teach transgendered woke nonsense. I said it was the school shootings and short staffing problems in a district close to us is forcing teachers to teach subjects they are not prepared to teach and not allowing them days off. Also the pay that doesn’t keep pace with other professions and constantly being berated as communist babysitters- but no you’re probably right, it’s because it’s too woke

[SWBTATTReg]

10. With all of the nonsense that the political hacks are passing, that topics A, B, or C are not

to be taught in classrooms, etc., and that they can only teach Math in a certain way, and all of the other nonsense that these political hacks are inserting into the learning process. It seems like they are trying to, in effect, brainwash our children into believing what they (the political hacks) want them to learn. NO. I want my children to learn in a nurturing environment, to learn in a non-threatening environment and make the choices for themselves what they wish to believe, to learn, etc.

To me, when I hear all of this nonsense being sprouted out, by these political hacks, it is just ridiculous and what really gets me furthermore, is that they are not going to be able to do a damn thing about what our children learn on their own, outside the school room environment outside the scope of these hacks' reach. Our children will soak up information from every source imaginable (that's the way kids are). Can't stop it.

Oh well.

A bunch of gutter mouths have to just mouth off, because it makes them feel big. Ha ha, if anything, they are looking awful small to me.

[demtenjeep]

11. My youngest did after only 5 years this past year. I have 4 max to retire but I could retire anytim

so yea...


we are sick of the bullshit

[Aristus]

13. My sister is retiring next year after nearly thirty years of teaching.

She can't take it anymore; the lack of funding, the lack of staffing, the overwork, the agonizingly slow pay increases, etc.

She's going to start teaching music at a private academy for the arts next year. I don't think she'll miss public education. The GOP assault on schools was a victory. And their demented, brain-dead followers, with their peach tree dishes and their gazpacho police are the result.

[sinkingfeeling]

14. Part of the plan is to destroy public education. By demanding teachers

become the police, telling them what they can say and teach, and banning their ability to help children being mistreated, the RWNJs are emptying schools.

[Poiuyt]

15. Ohio governor signs bill making it easier for teachers and school staff to carry guns

Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine on Monday signed a bill into law that makes it easier for teachers and staff to carry guns on school premises.

The Republican-backed bill reduces the hours of training required for armed school personnel from 700 to 24, according to the legislation.

https://edition.cnn.com/2022/06/13/politics/ohio-teachers-guns/index.html

Yee haw!!