‘Our children are at stake:’ Teacher shortage in Florida among worst in the nation

[@jrm371]

Florida is literally the last state I’d like to work at as a teacher

[@bookgirlny8511]

Me too. I’m sooo glad I teach in NY State 🍎

[@fremontpathfinder8463]

Yep I'd rather work in Oklahoma

[@sharonrinkiewicz3940]

Me too. I did a short stint teaching 8th grade right out of college. Big mistake. The disrespect students, lack of discipline, lack of administrative support, coupled with no resources took its toll on me. I taught English and reading, but administration thought it would be a good idea to NOT provide my classes with textbooks or reading materials. They then yelled at me because I spent too much time creating worksheets and photocopying books. This was in Broward County Florida.

[@baldeagle4710]

DeathSantis wants to fire all of the teachers for being "woke".

[@jillsalkin7389]

Or be in for any reason, with the dick-tator governor.

[@Catfluff521]

This can’t be “turned around” until all of these are fixed: 1. Low pay 2. Disrespectful parents 3. Badly behaved/ emotionally challenged students 4. Unsupportive admin. 5. Ridiculous workload/micromanagement 6. Politicization of education 7. Educational inequalities resulting in lack of resources, etc… 8. Stress of active shooter drills

[@francismarion6400]

Put God back into the classroom?

[@jrm371]

You forgot the obscene political attacks

[@AtheoGay]

Everything you say is true and part of the Republican plan to end public education and funnel money to private, mostly religious schools.

[@lapetitefleur3482]

@@francismarion6400 you forgot separation of church and state

[@shady1234shady]

@@lapetitefleur3482 the separation of church and state is to protect churches from government tyranny. It’s because Great Britain’s main church was Anglican, don’t get that twisted. I don’t think that bringing God in classrooms would help but people need to be more educated about the separation of church and state

[@lindas5511]

When you disrespect the profession and make it impossible to do our job this is what you get; I was a teacher for 45 years and would not teach in Florida for anything.

[@cstuartdc]

This is what happens when a State goes Red. You see it every time. A State goes Red - the schools and test scores decline. A State goes Blue - the schools and test scores go up. You'll see GA's schools now start to improve. TX is trending Blue. . .it will improve soon enough. FL will decline. PA is teetering at this time. If you have a family and rely on public schools, living in a Red State is a very bad idea.

[@edwardleemiller-eo8jp]

I wouldn’t teach in any state unless it was a private school where the kids actually know how to behave like human beings and there aren’t 30+ shoved into a room made for 20.

[@amylee8969]

I’m from Ca. My current teaching position doesn’t require me to have a full classroom. I’m a small group intervention teacher, which is much better and less stressful these days! That too has a few flaws but I wouldn’t trade it for anything, I’ll keep this position for as long as I can!

[@marlysmithsonian5746]

Absolutely, it has been run in to the ground here.

[@secularmonk6527]

As a teacher I would never work in any state that politicizes curriculum as much as Florida does.

[@andrewlayton9760]

Every state.

[@jrodamores87]

Being a teacher is NOT a great thing. We are NOT supported by the state or the community…. To tell college students that teaching is a great career is straight up GASLIGHTING, and should be ousted.

[@nwilliams-rq8eq]

ITS CALLED A LIE!!!!!!!

[@nwatson2773]

Thank God for social media, wish I had that in college! SAVE YOURSELF...Do not teach

[@atomictime9410]

Students are running the classrooms. Teachers need to be supported by parents and admin in taking their classrooms back

[@Stopper33]

Ron desantis and the Florida legislature are directly responsible. Teachers don't want to stay or come to Florida.

[@jillsalkin7389]

And others do not want to come to the state with the dick-tator.

[@SirChadwick84]

Maybe trash parents should start actually being-you know-PARENTS!

[@dieterh.9342]

No, it’s fat broads

[@nwatson2773]

Yep, I left in 2018 and tried again in 2020-21, NOPE

[@sandpiperr]

@@SirChadwick84 Or maybe the governor should stop calling teachers groomers?

[@Hampton-Hamilton-Piggles-Worth]

Never become a teacher. Say 1 wrong thing and years of hard work and dedication are destroyed in a moment.

[@BinoDist]

Use 1 wrong pronoun and decades of experience are thrown out in a trice.

[@romeysiamese6662]

Most workers don’t go to their job ea. day with the threat of being verbally abused, beaten or shot by a child.

[@laglendareed8086]

I agree.

[@pandabear7177]

12:57 We aren’t indoctrinating your kids. If we could, I would indoctrinate my students to turn in their homework.

[@jaydel3]

blame fox news for spreading that nonsense. Also, teaching about loving one another and respecting the environment and different cultures is considered indoctrination by right wing groups

[@sharonrinkiewicz3940]

​@@jaydel3I agree. Fox is a cancer on American society. When these Moms for Liberty (who DON'T have kids enrolled in school) demand that books should be banned based on the race of the author or a picture of a rainbow on a children's book, it is deliberate and by design of a larger plan. Moms for Liberty is funded by Betsy DeVos, and Republicans have been telling us for years they want to completely eliminate the public school system as a whole. In fact, in order to ban a book in Florida and other red states, you don't even have to Read the book to know what it's about. Ron DeSaten is turning Fahrenheit 451 into a reality. It will not be long before they ban the alphabet.

[@alienboogieman]

Not bad😂

[@waleedkhalid7486]

Faaaacts!!!

[@marlysmithsonian5746]

Exactly!! I called around our state, trying to find these drag queens who read to kids. NOT A ONE. Gee Desantis, lie much. Gaslighting at it's best, time or him to go!!

[@wuzittooya]

Florida has no one to blame but themselves.

[@colleenpeck6347]

DeSatan's budget is a surplus for 2023 just for a political statement while the state goes down the tube s!

[@cathygladbach1723]

Blame the governor

[@edwardleemiller-eo8jp]

It’s not just Florida though. This trend is across the entire country. Even a relatively great system like Pennsylvania is failing to retain teachers.

[@edwardleemiller-eo8jp]

@@josepharmbruster - I think you’re correct sir.

[@marlysmithsonian5746]

To be MORE correct it would be Governor Ron Desantis making up lies and residents believing the.

[@tiggs5591]

A big problem: school boards and politicians assuming that teachers will and must work outside of duty hours. That is what is causing teacher burn out- all for the cause of raising test scores! Guess what? Teachers have families and community obligations, hobbies, etc. Teachers Should not sacrifice their personal lives at the altar of standardized test scores!!! Truth- the work can not get done during work hours. It is toooooo much work! Young teachers may not set boundaries; they burn out!

[@bookgirlny8511]

Exactly

[@briannatrippe1807]

I just passed my exams to teach high school bio, chem, physics, and math and am about to get my bachelor’s and teach in either Massachusetts or Connecticut. I would NEVER teach in Florida the way it is right now. I would literally move countries first!

[@nwatson2773]

Good for you!

[@BarryBrandon-mz7gb]

Don't do it.

[@texasabbott]

The students know what teaching is about when they see their underpaid teacher get punched, bitten, hit by furniture thrown by the kids, and then get attacked by the parents again by thrown furniture or on social media, then get trashed publicly by lawmakers and politicians, and then they get asked to teach extra classes with extra large groups.

[@shantongonzalez3690]

I totally agree the teacher abuse needs to stop.

[@kris78787]

Don’t forget, the bad behaved kids get a bag of chips and a pep talk and then they are sent right back to class

[@quitaulla1569]

So sad.

[@ETBlair]

I would never want to teach in Florida because of its politics and elected officials. Deplorable!!

[@KarlaAkins1]

It will continue to decline until teachers are paid a living wage. House costs are so high teachers can't live in Florida. I'm one of them. I cannot live in Florida on a teacher's salary. It's lke this is many states, but the cost of living in Florida is extremely hight. Other contributing factors are class sizes and workload. I love the hard work of teaching, but I have to feed my family. The micromanagement of teachers and disrespect of the profession is too much.

[@michaeldpa1333]

Move to the North East.

[@egrajeda88]

Florida will continue to see teacher shortages because of the high politicization of the profession lead by the governor. As a former teacher in Florida, I am glad I left for a state were I won't be attacked by the governor. It is already such a difficult profession and the governor's constant attacks made it worse.

[@bookgirlny8511]

I totally agree. That’s why I’m so happy I teach in NYS

[@shady1234shady]

God forbid a governor protects children! Please do everyone a favor if you are a teacher trying to politicize your students please quit

[@18marshmello]

@@shady1234shady is he protecting children by trying to completely erase black history? Just because it makes white people uncomfortable does not mean it shouldn’t be taught. Americas history is NOT pretty and people need to start owning up to that instead of trying to white wash it down. Take a lesson from Germany they actually teach their children about the holocaust and hitler. Was it their country’s finest moment NO! But they are not trying to hide it and act like it didn’t happen. White conservative people love to say facts don’t care about your feelings but then here you are passing laws to block actual facts from being taught and using the lame excuse of it causes division and makes it look like white people don’t like people of color. It’s NOT history that makes us think that it’s the PRESENT and Your CURRENT actions that make us believe this. Minorities have been uncomfortable ALL our lives trying to fit into white spaces it’s YA’LL turn now.

[@leonwolf4]

@@shady1234shady Keeping kids trapped in ignorance and leaving them to be hunted for sport by gunmen isn't very "protective" for kids I'm afraid.

[@jaydel3]

@@shady1234shady how did he protect kids when he went against science for political gains. Not to mention going after lgbtq kids who exist and will never disappear or making culture wars over something like CRT that isn’t even taught in K-12.

[@ruthgallagher9584]

History is about facts. Restricting teachers to access and teach facts is horrific. Really, slavery wasn't one of the worse injustices in the United States and was really a job program?

[@kris78787]

Let’s start giving the bad behaved kids actual consequences for their actions instead of rewarding them with snacks and treats at the office. Maybe you wouldn’t have so many teachers wanting to leave

[@leonardoorchids]

My principal would give candy and treats to the most horribly behaved students after they received a discipline referral. This felt like a slap to the face to all the teachers who dealt with their misbehavior, meanwhile the students felt they could get away with anything.

[@jelisasanchezramirez2391]

Not only giving students consequences but also making it an inconvenience to parents when their child misbehaved and they do nothing to fix it.

[@sandpiperr]

I think maybe a pay raise and not calling them groomers would help too!

[@edwardleemiller-eo8jp]

I had one bad behavior case in my classroom, made contact with the parent. Parent decides to handle things by taking away the kid’s cell phone and warning them that they won’t go to Homecoming dance if the behavior continues. The student then goes to administration, claims that I lied to the parent….and the admin asked if they would feel better if I apologized to them. I’m like “wtf?”

[@eberd.c4644]

Being a teacher is more tuff than it seems, especially when the parents who should have never been parents in the first place don’t give discipline and education to the child morality and motivation. These kids have no other mentors in their life, they look up to gangsters and freak culture.

[@francismarion6400]

So are you teaching about God and morals in school or are you teaching "survival of the fittest " and that 2 mommy homes are just as good as Daddy Mommy homes? What you teach in the classroom does reflect into society.

[@jennom2195]

"they look up to gangsters and freak culture" you hit the nail on the head. I quit mid-year because of this.

[@nomadic1979]

"tuff " is spelled tough

[@jennom2195]

@@nomadic1979 🤣🤣🤣

[@jillsalkin7389]

YES!!!!

[@olddoug8945]

my wife has been a teacher for nearly 30 years (yes, with MS Degree). She says the problem is that the SCHOOL BOARDS AND ADMINISTRATORS refuse to have and enforce reasonable discipline policies. The solution is to elect school boards that set discipline as a top priority and monitor them and insist that they hire school administrators who understand that. IF you want to make things better for everyone, run for election to your school board. Get like minded people to run also. You CAN get elected and fix this mess. You can then see to it that policies that end the chaos are implemented and that school administrators DO THEIR JOBS. Then the teachers would be supported and backed up when they discipline disruptive students. Parents would again support and backup the teachers. Then the chaos would END. Schools would again be SANE asylums, as they were when I grew up. NEVER chaotic. No attacks on other students (ok, sure, there was the rare fight, but only between 2 students and not knock down drag outs), but NEVER an attack on a teacher. Ancient history, I guess. I graduated HS in 1964.

[@BinoDist]

YES!!!!!

[@debofiveklub7804]

Teachers in St Louis make over $110,000, however this is how its done: 1. Work in one of the top 5 districts in St Louis County (suburbs). 2. Get a masters and plus 30 3. Teach in the same district for at least 25 years. 4. Coach a major sport and/or sponsor several clubs.

[@cboy5oc]

Get a better governor.

[@ruthgallagher9584]

$40000 is equivalent to $20 an hour for a degree, which easily coat $80000. Why become a teacher when one could work less and be treated better?

[@linhaton4957]

You can make that at target.

[@BarryBrandon-mz7gb]

A B.A. is $80 grand?

[@Starbright317]

They are literally paying bus drivers $20 an hour now

[@Realitybit]

Pay them a living wage. Very easy answer.

[@francismarion6400]

Not that easy. No one wants to teach anymore because then your just a political tool for the Democrat party. People want to feel good about their contributions to society and not that they helped destroy it.

[@jillsalkin7389]

Nope. Nope. And nope, again. It is NOT about the money.

[@GonzalezKoerber]

@@jillsalkin7389 With Florida being #49 in the nation, yes, it IS about money.

[@Kayla-hs9rt]

As a Florida native, this is devastating news. Florida is already an illiterate state when it comes to education. I once had to move to Texas at one point in middle school and was culture shocked by how much harder the work was. Now we have a shortage of teachers?!? My future kids will definitely suffer if this continues 💯

[@nwatson2773]

PRivate school

[@sandpiperr]

@@nwatson2773 Not everyone is rich, Karen!

[@AlanRudolph-i2l]

@@nwatson2773 They structure their system to provide the minimum support and facilities to public schools. When I briefly taught at a private school in FL years ago, the word was that anyone who could afford to send their kids to a private school did just that. This further undermined the public schools, since these middle/upper class families had no stake in improving the schools. I wonder if it goes back to Brown v. Board and is a way to provide the minimum for Black and brown kids and keep taxes low for the upper class and retired people they tried to attract to the state. Even the private schools weren't that great, as far as I could tell. Look for de Santis and his ilk to try to further degrade the public schools by using taxpayer money for vouchers, etc. to benefit the wealthy again and drain funds from public schools. It's a race to the bottom.

[@magicparkmemories]

I cannot afford houses in Florida and I cannot afford the rentals because I do not make enough money

[@nwatson2773]

Same and I have 2 college degrees and 14 years of teaching

[@marlysmithsonian5746]

Florida is number 1 in teacher vacancies, more than 10% of the vacancies in the country are HERE. So many loved the junk from Desantis, which was not true, and his micro managing education. Teachers are educated and experienced at what they do and they are interviewed before taking their positions. After the horrible way Desantis treats teachers and education in general, it's no wonder they fled in droves from Florida. Now, Desantis has another self made problem with no solution. That's all he's good at and all he's done for Florida. Writing delusions about the past will make these students' diplomas worthless. Way to go, Desantis. Cannot wait til you are gone.

[@alexawells7096]

I have my License and Masters degree in education and have 2 different endorsements. I had to jump through hoops to get my license in Florida from N.Y. and had to pay a fee and also had to pay for fingerprints and then I have less than 3 years to pass 2 exams or my license will expire!! Also all the continuing ed. we have to do and add on a costly ESE and reading certificate. Lighten up these requirements for qualified teachers!!!!

[@romeysiamese6662]

The points you state here are deterring me from returning to teaching too. The fees, classes, costs to reinstate my certificate cost $1,000s and are redundant. Maybe I’ll substitute instead, but in my experience…students have less than 0 respect for subs. 😢

[@waitaminute2015]

Dubai is looking for teachers and they supply very nice housing. You keep all of your pay and children are well behaved.

[@nwatson2773]

I would have stayed in NY

[@sayitaintso7544]

"Our children are at stake" and parents refuse to do the job they signed up for. If Florida wants teachers to come back then parents are going to have to kick in and actually *parent*

[@frankongete9396]

I'm from Africa a teacher by profession... I'd move there if they stop disrespecting teachers and pay them meagre salaries! It's frustrating !

[@colleenpeck6347]

We need bilingual teachers for all of the Spanish speaking child immigrants!

[@marlysmithsonian5746]

Desantis has a lot of racial and bigot issues.

[@dogmomofive7011]

Stop raising entitled brats and teaches will return to the classroom.

[@francismarion6400]

Teachers educated this into society.

[@DarthFurie]

​​@@francismarion6400 nope, that would be the unfit, hands-off parents that created these little monsters

[@jeri3794]

​@@francismarion6400 don't rob the parents of their due credit. The incompetence of children of how to play, having manners, hygiene,etc has the parents to blame 100%

[@wuzittooya]

@@francismarion6400 Excuse you? Education begins in the home - too bad a good portion of parents are idiots who care more about politics than raising emotionally competent children.

[@dtthept9275]

THIS is the biggest problem, in my opinion.

[@dianakircher4565]

“Caring about the kids” does not cut it as a reason to be a teacher. That doesn’t pay the bills. Being a charity worker

[@magicparkmemories]

Politicians do not care about us at all

[@michaeldpa1333]

Democrats do care.

[@zebrafinch12]

No one deserves this Parents will have to home school

[@Rachel-vh3qs]

Unfortunately that’s what Ron and his cronies want. Their vision is to make public school so untenable that parents will take their kids out and send them to private charters where private interests will profit from taxpayer $, or take them out to homeschool them where the educational quality will be more focused on religious dogma than history and modern skills.

[@lwad3128]

Maybe Florida should put 2 and 2 together! 🤔

[@AtheoGay]

Florida's GOP gov't declared war on teachers and they walked. No surprise there.

[@marlysmithsonian5746]

Absolutely did.

[@alexa3322]

Principals having teachers back are rare

[@colleenpeck6347]

Guilty as charged NEVER found innocent!

[@reneedennis2011]

Yup I can attest to that.

[@nephilymbass1]

Same problem here in N.C. when you elect anti education politicians this is the result. Here in N.C. they resorted to recruited teachers from other countries. And we know how many of the people in Florida feel about immigrants. So it’ll be interesting to see how this plays out.

[@waitaminute2015]

I'm concerned for my friend, a Jamaican, that just signed 3 yrs contract in Fayetteville . She says she'll be getting 5k monthly. Is this true? It seems like a decent salary but I wonder if she's confused. She said she's teaching 3rd grade in a low income areas. I hope she can handle it, but somehow I think she has rose colored glasses on, or is being lied to.

[@nwatson2773]

She can do it if its elementary but 3 years is a long-time!@@waitaminute2015

[@whitebeltlyfbjj3393]

Give teachers more power then...dont tolerate disrespect.....give teachers power to kick out whoever they want

[@nwatson2773]

Raise starting pay to 55k and make cost of living increases. Reward teachers with masters degree at least 5k and make mandatory raises each fiscal year.

[@jillsalkin7389]

Not going to change it. It is NOT about pay!!!

[@jayscards8640]

How is this not already in place? I’ve been teaching for over 20 years and have received those since the first day I started. Aren’t there any local teachers associations that negotiate contracts for their districts? In addition to my $70 salary, I get about $3,000 for my Masters Degree, a 3.5% annual raise and many other benefits.

[@Preservestlandry]

​@@jayscards8640they get raises but their starting pay is $40k.

[@malcolmhodnett8874]

The country seems doomed at this point. The govt does not want to invest in the kids and parents don’t seem to care about parenting

[@isabellaflorentina7574]

The pay is abysmal. The state needs to boost veteran teacher pay 20,000. Teacher pay has stagnated for thr past 15 years. Any teacher with over 15 years of teaching needs to make 20,000 more ASAp. Florida is losing its veteran teachers which is bad for schools for so many reasons.

[@dtthept9275]

Yes...this is ridiculous that veteran teachers are not compensated for their experience.

[@mamaruach0000]

Well when you refused to do the right thing it affect everyone all the way around from the bottom to the top

[@marcmeinzer8859]

The most dispassionate response to this sort of material is to point out that the majority of the kids, since they’ve been assigned to inappropriate programs considering their limited intellectual capacity, will learn very little no matter who is teaching them, whether it be a regular teacher or a permanent substitute with perhaps an unrelated degree. There needs to be a massive retooling of the schools providing a great deal more vocational training for those who are below average verbally and also in terms of abstract reasoning. The notion that everyone should be in college prep has clearly been discredited at this point. So to a partial extent the teacher shortage is the result of trying to place too many kids in academic programs leading to college for which they are unsuited, since inevitably they are going to end up being manual workers or service workers.

[@mariapug]

In my area (Texas), new teachers are offered $60,000/year.

[@catzcatcher9772]

If all the issues are not dealt with or resolved, this shortage will go on, even if you resort to outsourcing teachers from other countries to teach your students. Teachers from other countries will stay for awhile because of the income that they make, which is way higher that what they're getting paid in their own countries, as well as a gateway for them to establish residency and citizenship in an American soil. So, temporarily, these outsourced teachers will persevere. But when they see and experience the truth of our education system, they'll bailout just like all the other teachers that left education. So, your district will start all over from scratch...looking, scouring, and searching for teachers that will rescue your failing education system. It's WASH, RINSE, SPIN, and REPEAT!!! Read and ponder at what Karen Steele wrote below!!

[@jacklinechemutai8643]

True,am an aspiring teacher but listening to this I get devastated and disappointed I do not even what to apply for a teaching job in the USA,I rather make it slowly over the years with my 120dollars a month,it's the same problem we are facing here,we only get 380dollars as a start but after three years we get an 80dollar salary increase with loans we survi😮 with around 120 dollars a month but this is better than racism and mental problems,low pay etc in the usa

[@waitaminute2015]

​@@jacklinechemutai8643I heard Dubai treats teachers well and children are disciplined.

[@S.M.214]

What a shock! Nobody saw this coming! NOT!

[@ognyc71]

Teachers get treated unfairly as social workers do (depending on the state funding)

[@edwardleemiller-eo8jp]

I like *students*. I hate snot nosed brats who are only there because the parents/guardians need free daycare.

[@sharonrinkiewicz3940]

Restore discipline in the schools. Do away with EUIQUITY grading, which means students receive at least a 50, even when they didn't attempt the assignment.

[@redevic5292]

You can't restore discipline when you have politicians calling teachers "groomers".

[@nwilliams-rq8eq]

PREACH SHARON!!!!

[@Echo-tk8pz]

Teaching is a political job. The city and state determine majority aspects of teaching & consequences for student behavior. It’s not just the low salary.

[@ir28c77]

It begins at the top, and that is government. Local and state government supporting education has been absent the last few years. The increase in teacher vacancies has gotten worse during these last few years. VOTE IN 2024!

[@marlysmithsonian5746]

Desantis is actually turning Florida into a swing state again, all on his own!! We have re registered Dem and will stay until he is gone. He has destroyed so much in Florida. He has no interest in education, unless his donors pay him for it. Many millions of us in Florida are now Dems. He's a failure.

[@danielgolarz674]

Florida has a teacher shortage for the same reason the rest of the country does. Out of control and expensive OCCUPATIONAL LICENSING for k-12 teachers.

[@elizabethmfay1]

I think we need to do some Fineland type schooling letting the kids be more part of their own education HELPING the schools while learning life skills. Make school fun so kids can actually learn, not memorize. Remembering all kids have different skills. One may be great at math while another may be a great chef. Bring out the kids true gifts. This would allow for more types of teachers teaching different types of skills while Is having a purpose to teach again. Perfect time to rethink our education systems and make changes where needed and new light where it's been dark for a reaaly long time.

[@Hvagr8day487]

Florida- do better. There’s no teacher shortage. They have all left for greener pastures.

[@violetclaire6608]

The reporter asked him what the endgame would look like if this trend continues… inevitably they would have to increase pay or just import teachers from other countries who (might) accept the lower pay

[@waitaminute2015]

Many Jamaicans are already signed up to teach. The problem is, they will be shocked at the behavior problems.

[@nwatson2773]

And the high costs of living here@@waitaminute2015 Luckily, they can leave or get married to a US citizen and switch careers

[@912deborah]

Great parents teach their own kids

[@marionwilson8867]

Hmmmmm... why is there a teacher shortage they asked? Oh, I know! Who wants to work for low pay? Who wants to see someone else without a proper teacher qualification or teaching experience be allowed to teach a class just because they're a military vet/a military spouse? Who wants to be at risk of being charged with a felony if a parent randomly decides they don't like the books you have in your classroom, or even just one book, for any reason, even if they said they were ok with it last week? Who wants to have a classroom with no books for exactly this reason? Who wants to teach in an environment where traditional consequences such as detention, being sent to the office, ISS etc are now either not enforced or seen as 'abuse'? Who wants to teach in an environment where admin rewards kids you send to the office for misbehaving with candy? Who wants to be blamed for student misbehaviours despite having consequences taken away and admin rewarding kids sent to the office with candy? Who wants to have the ability to give kids zeros and sometimes any grade less than 50 percent taken away under any circumstances? Who wants to see kids graduate who have done absolutely nothing to earn it and who are absolutely not ready to leave school? Who wants to be blamed because your pass rates or test scores aren't high enough despite any incentives and motivations and reasons kids had to try hard at their tests and exams and assignments not being there anymore, and the only ones still there are the ones that come from their own families IF they get them? Who wants to be micromanaged? Who wants to work outside contract hours to get all the pointless work that nobody will ever read anyway done? Who wants to deal with parents who don't respect you? Who wants to deal with kids who don't respect you? Who wants to deal with admin who don't respect you? Who wants to deal with a school district that doesn't respect you? Who wants to deal with Ron DeSantis who doesn't respect you?

[@Preservestlandry]

And all the parents calling you "groomers," I'm sure that makes everyone want to teach those parents' kids.

[@reneedennis2011]

Excellent points!

[@linhaton4957]

Florida teachers need and deserve a big raise.

[@theresarodriguez1488]

The politicians can go teach the students THEMSELVES. I hope more teachers leave the profession, they'll hire teachers from around the world. When those teachers see the bs teachers in America have to put up with, they'll fly back to their countries happy they left.

[@dtthept9275]

Most politicians send their students to private schools.

[@anabills-goggins9203]

I need to be in Florida to care for aging parents... I JUST CAN'T !!! Even if I take a job in Florida as an admin. I will make 30-40K less than what I make in Texas. Love my parents very much, but financially that will be suicide for my retirement!!

[@ReneePaull-gw3hy]

The DOE in Florida waited 4 months to tell me I was required to get certified by first taking the exam that I already took in NJ and passed. They had me wait anxiously for my application to fully process before telling me, when I could've prepared and taken the test when my application was initially submitted... It's unreal

[@nwatson2773]

DO NOT BE A TEACHER< EVER! I wish I had not sold myself so cheaply.

[@KevinQHall]

Pay and respect are why there is a teacher shortage *nationwide*. The reason the shortage is even worse in Florida specifically has to do with not being able to teach history or science. People in the science and history areas have to teach propaganda instead. Pay alone will NOT fix that issue.

[@sandpiperr]

Well, just a thought, but it might help if you stopped calling them groomers!

[@ziziroberts8041]

If a military vet can teach, retired professionals shouldn't have to jump through hoops, retake tests, and pay fees to be recertified. Roll out the red carpet, Florida. Raise the pay, because the cost of living went way up, and provide excellent healthcare coverage. Same for reliable substitutes. The merchandise in department stores in this nation is valued more highly our students, teachers and staff.

[@linhaton4957]

Just because you served in the Military, doesn’t mean you can’t teach without a teaching degree. I admire Veterans for sure, but DeSantis doesn’t respect teachers and thinks anyone can step into a teacher position and be successful. I won’t vote for him for President.

[@KeenanModica]

I WILL become a teacher in Florida because I want to and someone has to do it 😊

[@eddieteah3102]

Amazing interview

[@kenyonbissett3512]

It’s Florida, of course it’s worse in Florida (and Texas).

[@ruthgallagher9584]

Iowa too....banning books, political attacks on students....So sad. Now, our governor is giving wealthy parents $7500 to finance private high school education. Can regular parents get this? Sure, they just have to come up w the additional cost from $2000 to 20000.

[@Northdade07]

Its going to take much more than money.

[@tritondriver1]

Crayons are too " Woke" teacher could get a felony

[@orestesvega2475]

FLORIDA IS A BANANA REPUBLIC, SO WHAT DO YOU EXPECT!

[@JennConary]

Wow. Thanks for the vote of confidence in Military Vets. Some of the best teachers I had growing up were veterans. Others are amazing teachers and they are still serving in the military. What do you think active duty soldiers do? They teach the younger ones and inspire them to do things that absolutely no one else is is willing to do.

[@meagancarmichael3892]

Exactly the same issues in Victoria

[@paulosilva3350]

Don't worry. If you have teacher shortages, you can come to Portugal and take a few thousands with you, there're cheap and eat little...

[@Alexander-wq7qo]

Ron Death Sentence

[@fashionmanuel]

Solution: Pay them more ! That simple.

[@Northdade07]

That's not a solution. Lol. It's much more to it.

[@jillsalkin7389]

No. That is not the problem. See the first person's list of why teachers leave.

[@andrewlayton9760]

@1:38 - "Even some of the antics we have tried ..." Antics: an interesting choice of words telling the listener what exactly?

[@phillychannel394]

In sarcastic theory, this is a "Teachers Genocide"

[@mariovo5]

We need drivers over here where I work. I wonder if I can advertise them.

[@alexa3322]

If you only speak English, you cannot teach in southern Florida.

[@Issues1999]

Keep politicizing education and no one would want to teach.

[@RickyandGandi]

Why is he smiling.

[@Aikynbreusov]

Yeah, let's allow homeless people to teach atudents how to survive homelessness on the street ....that's very smart....lol.... oh lord, can anyone imagine have a PTSD veteran soldier teaching studenys who also have PTSD...???

[@randymullican5551]

Your reaping what you have sowed .

[@bonzimmer]

Pi would go if I could afford basics living there… but I’m not sure that’s the case

[@mahutwe9728]

If your children are so damned important, maybe try stop wrecking teachers!

[@quitaulla1569]

I am glad I am not a teacher. 😅

[@margkropf5541]

Teachers have no power and are disrespected. We have lousy parenting and bratty, entitled children. No wonder teachers are leaving the profession in droves.

[@ajshaka3212]

Does the guy think this will change the trajectory?

[@useridcn]

FL, not surprised.

[@SpringGhost6521]

I dont think about the money they are people.

[@magicparkmemories]

You can contact me and interview me on camera .

[@mollyrootes268]

Maybe they should pay more??

[@blafonovision4342]

Do Floridians deserve teachers?

[@meomeomeomeow]

The future is at risk and this country doesn’t care.

[@jaminschmitt]

Teachers are at stake, you mean. Happy teachers means happy students. Stop catering to students and support the teachers. Teachers should be a districts too priority but sadly they are at the bottom.

[@amberinthesticks8882]

Lol, teach reality. Stop forcing ppl to teach lies.

[@sophiabarbosa3522]

Hey kids go to the bathroom let them do nothing. Just get up and walk out.