ABC News’ Averi Harper reports on the impact of school districts in Missouri that have switched to a four-day school week to recruit and retain teachers amid shortages. ABC News Live Prime, Monday through Friday at 7EST and 9EST WATCH ABC News live here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w_Ma8oQLmSM SUBSCRIBE to ABC NEWS: https://bit. ly/2vZb6yP See more at http://abcnews.go.com/ LIKE ABC News on FACEBOOK https://www.facebook.com/abcnews FOLLOW ABC News on TWITTER: https://twitter.com/abc #TeacherShortages #Missouri #4daySchoolWeeks #ABCNLPrimar
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All the teachers are talking about student behavior being #1 issue and as a homeschool mother that is the #1 reason I don’t send my children to school. My children are respectful and much more innocent then I see from kids who go to school. Kids 9/10 acting and talking like they are 14/15 😢
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Instead of paying a living wage that is worth the quality they try to bring to our children? Nice. Perfect solution. Make parents pay more for daycare because you won't just give your teachers a fucking adequate raise.
Sad thing is, the good teachers leave, while the woke & terrible teachers stay. Bring back quality education!
My school would go to a 6 day week out of spite
High school students going into college don’t wanna be teachers because of the pay. Teachers quit because of the conditions and expectations (and pay). PAY THEM!!! There’s more to be done but who wants to get a degree to make such a low salary
oh my god can my school shorten school to 4 days i cant do this 5 day week much longer
Tax payers are not receiving what we're paying for
Britain did experiment with 4 day work week. Results were very positive but I have to think why shorten the week? The couple in this video are stupid. Also this is the goverment giving less education to your kids. Again the US falls behind the rest of the world.
Who wants to be a teacher? They are just glorified babysitters.
Amazing I've substituted a number of times but the county will not offer me a position unless I go into debt to obtain the license. No way. I borrow then a position "might" become available. No thanks. They complain about a teacher shortage but won't work with anyone who wants to teach unless there's debt involved. No.
Teachers get treated poorly and deal with enormous red tape from the school administration. On top teachers pay for starting salary is only around 22 an hour, it’s hard to retain beginning teachers at that salary. On top of everything else teachers must deal with parent and child abuse, it’s far easier to walk away and go work at Costco or other mid manager jobs.
The irony of this “teacher shortage” is that there are likely tons of people looking for work who have applied for teaching jobs but got rejected because the recruiters didn’t like their resumes/applications.
4 days a week? the job schedule will be next.
now they need to shorten it to three.
Everyone wants them to get paid more which means more taxes and no one wants to pay more taxes. I say the government officials take a pay cut. Their pay is extremely high in my opinion. But that’s never gonna happen because government officials love their money more than their country and it’s teachers
Exactly—Parents: Parent your children!!!
This is a terrible decision to sacrifice educational quality and teaching all to avoid compensating teachers. What are we paying taxes for if not to provide a basic public education.
We'd rather reduce educational consistency over paying teachers more. If there's a shortage, then the government and educational system should increase funding and wages appropriately. Sadly, the problem is that we've tied education funding to property taxes, so places like this are out of money and options.
What do the parents that have to work 5 days a week do?
that's it, I'm moving to Missouri
To all the parents that think their kids are angels at school and want to go off on teachers when in fact their kids are demonic at school yall are the ones to blame
And nowhere is the fact that “we can’t pay more” addressed. Teachers put in hours they aren’t compensated for all of the time which is why burnout happens. I guarantee you a lot of that “day off” is actually used for thoughtful lesson planning which isn’t built adequately into the on-the-clock schedule of the week. It almost never is in any district.
How can they even pretend they are looking for teachers with the pay they offer and the incredibly toxic workspace they've created with all this anti CRT and anti Trans nonsense.
It's like they force these people to get lots of schooling and debt then expect them to work in a place as stressful as a warzone for little to practically no pay.
Ya right. Frankly, I don't know how Florida teachers even show up in the morning and don't just pack their bags and flee that state and others are getting as bad.
This is a good idea as is shortening the work week to 4 days. But the main issues that are driving teachers away will not be solved by this. The pay is ridiculous for a job that requires a Bachelor's degree and three minors. The student behavior is unbelievable and too many parents are either in denial or don't care. Classrooms are over crowded yet more and more is expected of teachers. Teachers spend a lot of their own money on things for the classroom because there are no school issued credit cards or reimbursement like in the corporate world. There is also the added concern for safety in light of the ever growing number of school shootings. I have a teaching degree and I choose to work in the corporate world because I make a lot more money and I don't need to deal with all of the above. Bless the ones that are hanging in there!
Because God forbid the USA should have free education.
More and more on the teachers back with little help from administration. Need a complete overhaul-let the principals, teachers and parents run the classroom. Not..those other people..
Parents that work 5 days a week rely on 5-day school weeks. This is not helping.
Why can’t my school do this
Or just pay the teachers what they are f**king worth. This country is doomed.
As a teacher, I am fine with the pay. I just want to be respected by students, parents, and administrators. I want to teach children who actually want to learn. I need parents to hold their kids accountable for bad behavior or minimal effort. No one benefits from shortened school days. That is not the answer. Let’s talk about how teachers and parents can work together to create scholars. Let’s discuss the frequent and counterproductive state testing that we have to “teach” students to pass. That’s how we can minimize teacher burnout and resignation.
Oh my. So glad I home school my son.
How about you treat teachers better and pay them more
Four day week sounds great to me, as it gives us a whole day for planning and grading.
When I went to school, we had these kids called “every other day kids”— basically they were at school 2 to 3 days a week and then homeschool for the rest of the week. So not only did that help with the burden of too many students in the class, then also helped with school funding..
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bro this is pog as hell especially for that 1 district that got that free monday daycare
It's the children's behaviors. Put cameras in the classroom and on the buses so parents can dial in throughout the day and watch their child for 10-15 min. This might calm some of the storm with behaviors if they know their parents are watching. Make parents and employers allow parents to leave or come in late once a month so they can do mandatory classroom volunteer for 1 hour.
School should be 4 days and less hours so we can spend time with our children!
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