Education / Teaching thread

gboudx said
In the DFW area, there are forecasts that there will be a mass exodus of teachers come May. Now what does that mean actually? Leaving 1 school to go to another in the same district? Leaving for a new district? Or completely leaving education? At last count(and maybe I'm not up-to-date), 9 superintendents have resigned recently. The Dallas ISD super is leaving to run for mayor of Dallas, but others have resigned due to the strain and the politics that have encroached into the environment. I guess we'll see come May if the forecasts are true or not. It could be a major problem though.

Down closer to H-town my wife will be moving schools after this school year ends, possibly to another district... which we're centralized between the two and it's a very short <10min commute. Primary reasons are to be closer to home and get into a (hopefully) better managed school situation. From what I'm hearing, there are other teachers planning on leaving the school and it's probably split as to whether they are going to another school our out of education entirely. My wife has the summer to figure things out and who knows, if a non-education position turned up, she just might take it. If this did come to pass, I will say this, our kids/families/friends would be shocked. She is the quintessential elem teacher, she loves those kids like they're her own and there is nothing more important to her than having those kiddos progress to achieve their potential....And often, she's the Momma those kids don't have.

The school districts were already veering towards an industrialized teaching process that more/less forgets about the fundamentals of kids and learning... And then Covid came along and blew up any semblance of process, the new habit became 'chaos'... and muscle memory for this will linger for years.

The immediate issue are teachers.... I too am wondering just what the exodus will look like..

The longer-term possible issue are the kids... The last time these 4th graders had a 'normal' year was 1st grade. They don't know what our expected 'normal' looks like.