We asked teachers how their year went. They warned of an exodus to come

[Nevilledog]

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"The teachers are just feeling overwhelmed, and they're breaking down underneath it," one teacher-coach in Iowa said. "I find people crying in the bathroom."

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We asked teachers how their year went. They warned of an exodus to come
After a rough couple of years, we asked teachers to tell us how they are doing. Their answers were revealing.
1:40 PM · Jun 18, 2022

https://www.npr.org/2022/06/18/1105655954/classroom-in-person-burnout-teachers-school-shooting-zoom-student-depression

School is out, but teacher stress and burnout is still in session.

Last December, we spoke to teachers about the challenges of educating during a pandemic and their hopes for the coming year.

While many of them had initially thought a return to the classroom after remote learning would make things easier, others realized a new set of challenges had arisen.

"The teachers are just feeling overwhelmed, and they're breaking down underneath it," Michael Reinholdt, a teacher coach from Davenport, Iowa, said at the time. "I find people crying in the bathroom."

Back then, the first omicron COVID wave was sweeping the country and schools were trying their hardest to return to normal after two years of closures, illness and disruption.

Since then, the question of basic safety has also come back into sharp focus after the Uvalde, Texas school shooting last month.

So, how are teachers reflecting on the year that was and the future ahead?

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[exboyfil]

1. GOP in Iowa is working hard to kill public schools

We already have a remarkably lenient homeschool and open enrollment system, but that is still not enough.

[LakeArenal]

2. That suits Republicans. WI wanted to hire uncertified teachers so Walker disbanded unions.

I know several great teachers that retired in 2009.

[LakeArenal]

10. Grooming schools.

[Thtwudbeme]

3. I have two more years to get my benefits- I am a middle school librarian

I almost cannot stand being in the school anymore. It's horrible. Teachers and librarians taking early retirement- looking for other jobs. One great math teacher left to be a medical transcriptionist.

Yes- it is horrid now- and made worse by loons that show up at the board of education meetings shrieking about books they hate, and "grooming."

[Nevilledog]

4. I'm so sorry you're having to deal with this.

[rurallib]

5. My daughter jumped out at the end of the 1st semester

Couldn't make through the year.

[aocommunalpunch]

7. I told my dental hygienist this morning

After she said she “just likes Desantis” that I’m not grooming or indoctrinating anyone because ain’t nobody got time for that shit. I’m working on fractions and persuasive essays. That’s it. She responded, “You’d think so.”

Jesus fuck. Yea, you’d think so, dumbass. She went on to tell me how her 23 year old “liberal” daughter is taking a job as a 1st grade teacher in Florida. Good fucking luck with that. Just madness.

[Wounded Bear]

8. What scares me the most about this...

is when good teachers leave, they might be replaced with relgious fundies and RW crazies.

[badhair77]

9. Our Spanish teacher left after 20 years to work

for a publishing company. She’s making more money, has better benefits and can work remotely. Several others are leaving next year. They’re trying to get another year of service toward their pensions. More want to leave. I retired 12 years ago and am grateful every day I do not have to go to that building. The pain starts from the top down with trumper board members. The board VP thinks ivermectin saved his life. Sad situation.

[tenderfoot]

11. It's by design

eom

[RANDYWILDMAN]

12. My school is still only concerned with a high grad rate

it is sickening and the backlash is coming