Low pay, burnout and stress are among the many reasons behind the nationwide teacher shortage. Carlton Jenkins, superintendent of the Madison Metropolitan School District in Wisconsin, and Jesus Jara, superintendent of Clark County school in the Las Vegas area say there needs to be a fundamental change to K-12 public education.
» Subscribe to NBC News: http://nbcnews.to/SubscribeToNBC
» Watch more NBC video: http://bit.ly/MoreNBCNews
NBC News Digital is a collection of innovative and powerful news brands that deliver compelling, diverse and engaging news stories. NBC News Digital features NBCNews.com, MSNBC.com, TODAY.com, Nightly News, Meet the Press, Dateline, and the existing apps and digital extensions of these respective properties. We deliver the best in breaking news, live video coverage, original journalism and segments from your favorite NBC News Shows.
Connect with NBC News Online!
NBC News App: https://apps.nbcnews.com/mobile
Breaking News Alerts: https://link.nbcnews.com/join/5cj/breaking-news-signup?cid=sm_npd_nn_yt_bn-clip_190621
Visit NBCNews.Com: http://nbcnews.to/ReadNBC
Find NBC News on Facebook: http://nbcnews.to/LikeNBC
Follow NBC News on Twitter: http://nbcnews.to/FollowNBC
Follow NBC News on Instagram: http://nbcnews.to/InstaNBC
#Schools #Education #Teachers
source
One year my sister was mad because her job in private industry lowered her year end bonus from 50k to 20k. She asked me what I got for my year end bonus. My principal had given everyone a miniature candy cane in our mailboxes.
Why should they have to tell children that men can have kids?
tbh its not like school actually teaches anything important.. its just a glorified daycare…
It's not just pay. It is about respect and support. Teachers reached their breaking point during and after the pandemic. The real question is who benifits from teacher shortages? Not teachers, students, or school districts. Interesting that many lawmakers who set pay and make policy are the only stakeholders that are anti-public schools. Interesting that the only people who have a reason to want to see public schools fail are the people who make laws that dictate what teachers do, set teacher pay, and controle school funding.
They should let those crazy parents, who also want to ban and burn books, teach in classrooms, seems to me they think they know how to do it – I can fully understand why no reasonable person wants to become a teacher anymore. I just feel sorry for the kids.
"The United States Department of Education is a Cabinet-Level Department of the United States Government.
It began operating on May 4, 1980, having been created after the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare was split into the Department of Education, and the Department of Health and Human Services by the Department of Education Organization Act, which President Jimmy Carter signed into law on October 17, 1979."
"The Department of Education is Administered by the United States Secretary of Education.
It has 4,400 Employees – the smallest Staff of the Cabinet Agencies – and an Annual Budget of $68 Billion.
The President's 2023 Budget request is for $88.3 Billion, which includes Funding for Children with Disabilities (IDEA), Pandemic Recovery, Early Childhood Education, Pell Grants, Title I, Work Assistance, among other Programs."
"The current Secretary of Education is Miguel Cardona, who was Confirmed by the Senate on March 1, 2021."
Why? Because class size is way too big and pay is way too low.
Only a chump would do that job for that money.
"A Teacher's College is for the Training of Teachers, usually offering a full 4-Year Course, and Granting a Bachelor's Degree."
"Teachers College, Columbia University (TC), is the Graduate School of Education, Health, and Psychology of Columbia University, a Private Research University in New York City.
Founded in 1887, it has Served as one of the Official Faculties and the Department of Education of Columbia University since 1898.
It is the oldest, and largest Graduate School of Education in the United States.
Although it was Founded as an Independent Institution, and retains some Independence,
It has been closely associated with Columbia University since shortly after its Founding, and Nerger with the University; Established in 1887; 135 years ago."
Alabama's and Florida's "fixes" are embarrassing and shows that they don't respect what teachers do.
Start teaching critical race theory
PAY PAY PAY….16yrs into profession and still at starting salary?!?!? Stop mentioning starting pay and tell everybody that that's their salary forever!
Yall don't want to pay nah keep it social distance ! Have a robot teach them !
It's long covid that is why ppl are not working. Myself included
It’s going to get to the point of just hiring anyone off the streets to teach, no license or credentials, don’t know the content. the blind leading the blind, but again it doesn’t matter, the government don’t treat public schools as academics institution instead as child care babysitting centers. So whether having credentialed license teacher don’t matter. Schools are just a place to house the kid temporarily while the parent goes to work. It’s like free child care and babysitting for the parent. And parent has the audacity to think they can demand things when they are not even paying for their free child care service. No humbleness and appreciation for services given to them for free.
Times are changing
In one of my teaching assignments (back in the day, over 15 years ago), my classroom had 35 desks. The incompetent counselors assigned 45 kids for my period 2 class. Four kids could sit on the chairs next to the computers, but they didn't have desk space. The rest had to sit on top of the cabinets in the back of the room. Good thing the fire marshal never came to check the room.
Leaving the teaching profession was the BEST decision I've made in my life.
It's insane that this is how the little we invest in literally shaping the future of this country.
School shootings too…
Jara only worries about finding new teachers, he does nothing whatsoever to retain experienced teachers.
Dealing with these disrespectful kids!Nobody has time for that!
who wants to work in red states with their brainless leaders
When I got laid off from ESL with my college educator experience & MFA, I thought I'd help by applying to sub or consider a high school career. It was ridiculously hard…more requirements & more college & more student loans. No, thank you! My daughter just graduated college at 20 & I was worried when she said she's thinking of being a teacher. I told her I don't feel teachers are respected in our society & I don't want to see her as poor as I am as a college educator & dealing with such a difficult job. It would have been so cool to be proud of her for wanting to help educate people, but I couldn't feel happy about it.
The public school buildings no longer have open spaces to get fresh air between classes, they are one giant institution style buildings. If you style your schools similar to that of a prison or hospital why would children even want to be in those spaces. This countrys public schools are about control and authority not about learning. A complete shut down of public education by government funding would be the best thing. America needs investment by its own people into the education of children, maybe very wealthy individuals could bring back healthy thriving public schools but that would require building all new school buildings and removing the institution style ones that exist now.
Do they hire foreign teachers?
Kids deserve to a have a teacher that is highly qualified. As much as I respect a veteran, that does not make them qualified to teach. Give people a reason to want to become teachers.
1. Starting pay needs to be high
2. Better medical benefits
3. Increase pay accross the board to all teachers.
4. Actually hold kids accountable for their behavior.
5. Eliminate standarized testing
6. Provide real change in gun legislation so teachers feel safe.
7. Stop bringing wacko legislations.
8. Deffer student loans. Loan forgiveness for teacher in return of years of teaching.