Teacher Shortage Crisis | ncIMPACT | PBS North Carolina
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 29 มิ.ย. 2024
- Staffing shortages remain a problem for many schools. In North Carolina, all grade levels suffer from a lack of math and special education teachers, while elementary schools lack qualified educators for all core subjects. Discover how school districts are getting creative in recruiting and retaining teachers, including a “Grow Your Own” program in Edgecombe County.
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When you talk to principals instead of teachers about why teachers are quitting....
Exactly. They never want to talk to teachers because the ugly truth would be revealed.
@@fremontpathfinder8463Yup.
Teachers loved teaching, but their love for teaching can be quickly destroyed by disrespect, insults, stabbings and throwing of chairs by violent students.
You forgot shootings. America has more school shootings than any other country on Earth.
Yup.
The pay in NC is a joke. Starting pay in NC is $39,000. In NJ, starting pay is $62,000. NJ doesn’t have a bad teacher shortage. The shortage is worst in right-to-work states where unions are illegal. It all comes down to money.
And the cost of living is not THAT different in NC and NJ.
@russellgrimes3491 nope, teachers go in knowing the pay is terrible. It's the terrible students and no consequences.
The elephant in the room is that the kids have become so unruly, disrespectful and violent that no one can teach successfully. The schools won’t put kids in detention, won’t expel them, and don’t expect the kids to do homework. Principals don’t allow teachers to fail kids who turn nothing in because a low graduation or failure rate affects their federal funding.Even the parents are failing miserably, or many of them. They expect teachers to parent and “fix” their kid; they don’t sit down and do homework if needed; they have drug, alcohol and social problems themselves. The culture is rotted and until we right that, things will get worse.
And this is what the teachers are talking about but no one talks about opening an alternative school for disrespectful and violent students. They should not be put in the regular and special ed classrooms. Some of these students are already in the justice system and come to school with ankle bracelets on and are using drugs. These students should be in another school setting. The schools system will just send them away for a short time and put them right back in the classroom to repeat the same behavior. The teachers feel like it is not worth the pay because we cannot father these kids and we are not counselors that deal with emotional behaviors and trauma, Also the parents need counseling for the entire family and parenting classes at the early childhood level. They wait until middle school age when it is too late to discipline a child who get rewarded with cell phones and other trinkets as a reward. It sucks. Covid-19 has nothing to do with failing students they were failing before the pandemic.
How about removing unruly students and restoring order in the classroom?
Easier said then done. The parents of those unholy bastards will be demanding their off-springs back into school because they won't have any time for their selfish self's.
Exactly.
It should not be a "tough conversation" to have over salaries. And teachers need to not be forced into useless PD meetings. Give us time to plan for goodness sakes. Really 37,000 dollars starting pay? Please. I would advise all of my students to go into healthcare unless you teach in a blue, unionized state. The color of the teacher matters not. Too much emphasis is placed on that. Teacher pay needs to be dramatically raised to a starting amount of 60,000 dollars a year. I also noted they avoided the attacks on teachers and lack of academic freedom.
People dont quit jobs....they quit managers (admin/principals)
A principle is just a failed teacher that cant stand being in the classroom and now they get to look the other way while getting double pay
These administrators sound like fools and demonstrate poor speaking abilities. 😮
They talk about everything except the absentee parebts that leave kids bad behaviour for the teacher to deal with while at the same time not wanting their kids to face any consequences and in this day and age, they don't, they get rewarded for being sassy, jerks, uninterested in learning
I am a teacher and I agree with you they are uninterested in learning, I had a student tell me that they do not need school because they can look everything up on their phones. They took out phonics, three line paper and changed the math. This hurt a lot of students that cannot read and write on grade level. I have students that cannot write a complete sentence and they cannot spell or pronounce simple site words. It sucks,
easy solution: pay more money.
Money won't fix anything. These teacher's are fed up with how they're being treated by not just their own students, but by the students parents. The job is getting too stressful.
There's way too much diver-sity, professionals want nothing to do with that.
In order to get more teachers/substitute teachers into the classroom they need to raise their salary to, or above the national average maybe, they will get more people interested in the teaching profession!
.....what even is that news anchor?
Congratulations on an excellent presentation! James
They need new anchors/reporters 😬
What a joke this entire presentation has been. I have a masters in education from New York and the public university in which I studied and taught pay their new janitors much more than you pay your beginning teachers, especially with the addition of their union benefits. I wouldn't even consider working in your schools with such horrendous environments. The behavior of the students, parents, other teachers, and administrators is appalling.
It’s not a news story, it’s a sales pitch.