Teachers Quit Due to Low Pay

[@etacude]

Why Teachers Quit 😰 ► kzbin.info/www/bejne/b6KzZGykfK91atU

[@dimwitsadvocate6264]

In the USA, good teachers have quit in droves because of lack of discipline, lack of support from administrations as well as pathetic pay. Teachers are told what to teach by the Federal government and administrations, which is mostly garbage - teachers know best how to teach but they are not allowed to do it.

[@ta_shishka8]

I am teacher from Russia. If be honest, I didn't think that even in USA are problems with teachers' salary!!! It's so sad... I was working at school last year 18 hours per week (only lessons) + checking homeworks and tests + preparation for lessons + filling out the electronic journal with students' grades + some extra hours for teachers' meetings ( 1- 2 hours per week) and I had for all this work about 200 dollars!!! I have master degree, but school administration didn't care about it and didn't pay. That's why really good and qualified teachers are learning from schools. Or if teachers want better salary they take 36 - 40 hours per week (it's just lessons). We have a joke about it: if you have 18 hours of lessons - you don't have money to eat; if you have 36 hours of teaching - you don't have time to eat. Also is a big problem - that teacher's salary in Russia is higher in big cities than in towns and villages, but prices for products are the same. After this video I realised that, unfortunately, world government does't need / want educated people.

[@soonahero]

Ain’t nobody quitting at week 3 due to pay. We know the pay. Second, they aren’t just going to get better paying jobs. Not many corporations clawing for teachers

[@azumi5459]

they're teaching children who mock them for being paid low wages. it's rough. I still remember a teacher got mad when a student said that the teacher shouldn't act up because the student parent was paying the teacher with tuition fee. that teacher spent a long couple minutes to do calculation how each students in the school basically only paid him less than a dollar per month.

[@ericsenior7687]

Thanks for showing the situation in other countries as well. This is a global problem for educators.

[@timmysmith9991]

Cops in my city make 30k more than teachers, plus being a cop you have a higher survival chance.

[@АннаСитарчук]

I'm from Ukraine. I have 27 hours of teaching per week. I've been already working for 5years. My salary is approximately 270 dollars. I'm going to quit from teaching at school!

[@anarchistonsunsetdrive7813]

This is one of the many, many reasons I left the teaching profession. I would not recommend it.

[@courtneypuzzo2502]

your not counting teachers who have reached retirement age after a long career or left for other personal reasons. my favorite teacher from elementary school retired at 45 due to burnout

[@88michaelandersen]

Low teacher pay is mostly a myth. National starting pay averages $44,530 and average pay is $69,597. The state with the lowest average pay is West Virginia, at $52,870, with median average pay by state being $62,000. There are seven states whose average pay is over $80,000. Typically, states that require a masters degree or post-baccalaureate credential have higher average salaries and starting salaries than ones that do not require them. When you control for job stability and time off, teaching pays pretty well. The average employee works about 240 days a year, but teachers typically work only 190 days a year, about 20% less. Another thing, the number of teachers who go to their dream college instead of a local college is surprising. I had a math teacher in my district who bragged to students about going to USC, and would encourage students who also wanted to be teachers to apply to and accept positions at Ivy League schools and other expensive top-tier colleges. If you are going into teaching, you don't need an expensive degree. You are going to get a great education at nearly any college you go to, so pick one that is not going to break you with student loans. A teacher who went to USC is going to get the same pay as a student who went to Western Governors, but the WGU student is going to pay about $24,000 to get there as opposed to a USC student paying $340,256.

[@ryker_solaris9290]

i teach in germany in middle school, and yes the salary is good. so we dont need a 2nd job. but the job is getting harder, because we need more graduated new teacher, have to do a lot of documentary, work ~60h/week and heterogenity in the classroom takes a lot... so i think, teaching should get for prioritized in a lot of capitalistic countries. pupils dont produce sales volume...maybe they have to work to pay teachers in some years??

[@jaimepimienta233]

You are more fortunate than American teachers. Many European students have a higher educational opportunity than American students. Certainly the history of Europe is by far more vast than American colonialism. Also, learning English in Europe (like Germany), is compulsory and many fortunate Europeans become fluent in multilingual European languages including English. This gives students more opportunities to earn a “classical education.”

[@AgentS1285]

Look teachers are paid well, for a trade. Masters degrees being required is insane this is a 2 year degree kind of job. At least for pay.

[@agricolaregs]

Elementary school could be taught with a two year degree geared at methods. Precalculus? No. That needs a four year degree minimum.

[@waverly2468]

CalSTRS is $100 billion in debt so sorry, you're not getting a raise. Brandon Johnson tried to borrow $150 million to pay teacher's pensions in Chicago. Chicago Public Schools is around $25 billion in debt, half of which is unfunded pensions.

[@anarchistonsunsetdrive7813]

If you want to be a teacher, consider becoming a RN, SLP, School Psychologist, OT, PT, you will have a better quality of life.

[@agricolaregs]

I should’ve been a nurse.

[@88michaelandersen]

The person at 5:00 tries to blame capitalism for teacher pay. Public school isn't a capitalistic system, by definition. It is government run, and capitalism is the opposite of government run. She is wrong in another sense, though. There are a lot of people who would make great teachers, but who chose other careers for the money involved. A person who studied hard and landed a 6 figure job as an engineer would likely make a good teacher if they were motivated into that career instead. We do not get the best people for teaching as teachers. We get the people who both want to jump through the hoops to be a teacher and who are able to jump through those hoops, but that doesn't mean that the people who would be the best teachers actually go into teaching. My father-in-law would make a great educator, but he would be unable to be a teacher because he would have to give up his extremely lucrative career. When he explains the programming he does he is engaging and enlightening. He would bring a science classroom to life with the robots he works with. There are incentives for paying a really great teacher a great salary, but those conditions don't exist in a government system that is trying to be fair to everybody. If we had a private school, that school might want a rockstar of a science teacher and pay them a great salary. But a government school is just going to want every teacher paid the same regardless of subject or ability.

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