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Mass Exodus from Teaching? It’s About to Get Serious, Y’all.
This Great Resignation would break us all
To say that teachers are tired is laughable. We’ve been tired for forever. Now we’re just broken.
Through social media, I’m connected to thousands of educators across the country, and they all want to quit. And this isn’t just water-cooler chatter around a crummy day. This is making action plans to close the doors on their classrooms in the middle of the year and never look back.
Many veteran teachers are taking massive-to-them pay cuts just to leave, while teachers who’ve only been in a few years are headed back to grad school to figure something else out.
LinkedIn : “Many teachers stayed put for the first school year of the pandemic — but in 2021, the separation rates for K-12 teachers surged 66% above the levels 12 months earlier [which were already frightening], according to new data from LinkedIn’s Economic Graph team.”
that an entire profession is in trouble. Teachers at all stages in their careers are bailing for better opportunities, while enrollment in teacher education programs continues to decline.
