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Originally Posted by ISiddiqui
My wife has been a teacher her entire professional life. She loves being a teacher. She even has served on County and State Art Educator Boards. She does curriculum writing for her County. She's going to get her Masters in Art Education. And yet, the other day she told me that if next school year is going to be like this one, she may be done. It shocked the Hell out of me.
Basically there are no subs and therefore if someone is out, other teachers have to pick up the slack for them. In addition to a bunch of teachers who retired due to Covid leading to much bigger classes sizes. She's kind of at her wits end.
It reminded me of the 3 weeks or so in 2020 where people talked super highly of teachers and said they needed to be taken care, only for a few months later saying go back to work, lazy teachers. And the folks that said those teachers who hesitated to go back to teaching in person should just quit and plenty of people want jobs... yeah.. no one apparently wants to be a teacher right now. And the ones that in it are suffering.
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Absolutely. Education is in trouble for many reasons. On my end in regard to special education, there is going to be so many looking for lawsuits and districts will be in trouble having to pay them as there have no allowances for anything despite what is going on (all this related to staff shortages, not having time for certain programs etc)