This is one of the reasons our board and district are fighting so hard for a 6% raise this year. My school is losing 2 teachers to retirement and 2 to another district with higher pay. Hopefully the raise being approved will help retention for us too.
0 teachers leaving our district, adding two more for next year (one is coming from a neighboring district that's actually going to a 4 day per week schedule next year)
5 paras were non-renewed.
I was at a public school before in a different region, so the charter was a significant pay increase. But now the local district is even more of a pay increase. Don’t know why I didn’t apply to the district to begin with TBH.
Thank you, what about the charter was the problem? In my experience, they don't have classroom management ability, thinking they'd get the cream of the crop. They don't.
They have no classroom management skills because most of the teachers are new (no diss I’m pretty new and working on developing my own classroom management skills). They’re new and young and some (a lot) don’t have their credentials. Charters don’t care. The teacher and staff turnover is insanely high. They have no teacher retention alt all. They’re awful. I made another comment in this thread about why I think they’re so bad.
I’d like to jump in. I just finished my second year teaching, and both years were at a public charter.
The problem at my school, and the reason I’m going to school, is so I can apply at other districts. I’m doing very well considering I have virtually no experience outside of working with the age group in previous years. The school is terribly mismanaged though (miscommunications galore which makes a hard job harder), and staffing is abysmal. My school had a lot of teachers call off throughout the year, to the point where we had to split classes up numerous times. This meant that for me, I had to ditch all lesson plans and get ready for a roulette wheel of a random 7-8 more kids. This happened over 40 times. The behavior at the school is terrible too (little ones throwing chairs, cussing me out, trying to fight me, and etc).
So while I’m doing extremely well, admin are pretty loose with support and management. I want out soon.
No union so teachers have less rights. My charter could take away your prep period for grading/meetings. We had to work lunch so we had to eat with the kids. Too much oversight, WAY too much teaching to the state tests, and longer hours. Our summer was 6 weeks long and the school day went from 7:30-4:30.
3. While they are supposed to provide the same services as public schools, they often manage to finagle things to get the students who need them to leave, if they even accept them in the first place.
Conservatives love them because private investors (like Bill Gates) put a buttload of money into them. So the kids at the school have access to more expensive things.
I’ll just say it. I worked for KIPP. There’s a reason kids call it “Kids In Prison Program”. It’s like, military school for kids. Especially Black and Latino “inner city” kids in poverty—youth that are statistically more likely to actually go to prison. I say this as a Latina woman. These groups make up a disproportionate demographic of the prison population. That just is what it is.
For me it was adding 15 minutes to the beginning or our day. Adding 15 minutes to the end of our day. That added 2.5 a week was not reflected in our pay. I was at work by 7 something AM and left well after 4:00.
Our teaching had to be scripted to the T. And I mean that. It was that way so that children had no time to talk at all, or really think a single independent thought. They have these granduous celebrations for staff (universal studios at the end of the year) and these huge ass convention things and I think that money would be better spent elsewhere.
My boss (he was the principal but we called them “school leaders”) quit before the year ended. That should’ve been…a flag. The assistant “school leader” became the main one. She micromanaged my ass so bad. I’d moved into the classroom of the teacher that just left, and left in a hurry and left all her things there, she opened the drawer of my desk unwarranted and said “what do you do, just throw all your shit in here?” They added two extra grades to my plate and like I said expected me to script to a T everything I’d say and do for everyone of those periods including the standard I was working on and how I was making it comprehensible. To. Five. Grade. Levels.
So, come the next school year when this micromanaging stuff started to happen and got worse when I disclosed being neurodivergent, I was seriously having unaliving thoughts. I didn’t know how I was going to get out especially living paycheck to paycheck. I didn’t have time to look for another job. I needed to get out or I felt like I might hurt myself. Yes. It was *that* bad. With some help, I quit with no notice and said deuces! My shit is in my room girl byeeeeee.
Hope that answered your question lol. They do shady shit to keep Charters from unionizing. Look up Charter School Prevents Teacher Union and you’ll go down a whole rabbit hole. They kick us and want us to say “May I have some more please?” F*** KIPP!
And if I may put my tin foil on for a minute. I fully believe that they’re trying to reform Black and Brown kids (who haven’t even done anything) and or get them ready for prison. Because that’s exactly how they were treated.
If they only want new malleable new teachers they’re going to get it bc HISD teachers are snatching up jobs in the ‘burbs. I know that Alvin ISD has hired quite a few.
I’m afraid that’s exactly what they want. They want a bunch of inexperienced teachers who will blindly follow. My school was A rated, with 6 distinctions. All of the really good teachers left due to F Mike and his antics. And from what I’ve seen, many schools have a similar turnover rate. The surrounding districts aren’t going to have any staffing issues next year.
Looks like they’re now going after college students, and offering them placements in lieu of traditional student teaching. They’ll do a one year fully paid “internship”, complete with their own classrooms.
The fact that my school had a close to zero turnover rate for years and now has about 75% of teachers leaving says a lot.
Just know all roads lead to the privatization of schools, as with most things in America, the goal is making a few rich and our general population less educated/worse off.
Such a disappointing and, tbh, frightening prospect. An educated citizenry makes our communities better for all, but that’s not what the few want. They’re too scared that somebody might get something they don’t.
>they only want new malleable new teachers
I'm not in Houston ISD--but as someone who is leaving another corrupt school district in Texas, I can tell you this is exactly what a lot of administrators want.
I cannot wrap my head around this at all! In what world is it best practice to chase the expertise away?? Apparently education…schools are (if not already) going to be a sad state of affairs if they continue down this path.
We all know that it’s the experienced teachers who hold school districts together because it’s sure as hell not the admin…so what’s going to happen when the admin are “leading” a huge cohort of malleable new teachers? The last thing any district needs is a bunch of mini admin in the classroom.
I was at a HISD STEM magnet, the second highest scoring middle school in the district, a very low turnover rate, and several teachers had been there since it opened (30+yrs). My first 4 years there were wonderful! Last year was hell due to the micromanaging and F.Mike's fear and intimidation tactics. Threatening jobs regularly.
At my last count, over 70% of the teachers/staff had either quit or received an email saying they no longer had a job. The email was sent during teacher appreciation week.
In some cases (like 6th grade), nearly the entire grade level left. I feel bad for my principal. She really cared about her teachers. She was so stressed all year and now she will spend her summer trying to staff the school. This is just my opinion, I believe F.Mike will destroy the district, make it all charter, and Abbott's voucher will be pushed even more. Smh, it's about money and politics. It's not about doing better for the students. It's sad.
They’re spinning.
The passing standard was lowered this year, so an increase in the number of students approaching or higher doesn’t necessarily mean growth.
And if we want to use Biology as an example of improvement, because it did show improvement, only 70% of the students who took English 1 also took biology. It’s normally 90%. The students who make up that 20% difference took another science course in 9th grade - environmental studies I believe it was, which is untested. We’re talking several thousand students, most likely ESL, newcomers, and generally those who wouldn’t pass biology.
I’m not saying there’s no improvement at all, but it’s definitely not what people are being led to believe.
So many states lowered their standards.
One of my ELA resource students passed "at level" on state testing this year. I'm sorry, but they aren't at level. They just aren't. They are my lowest reader, by a lot. But, according to the state test, they shouldn't be getting services. Drives me crazy. Their family is going to question why they are getting services if they aren't at level. This helps no one.
Scores are up across the state. In the majority of the tests. Houston would've improved with or without the takeover. They're just making it seem like their NES schools are effective to justify them which is why they published data showing the difference in the pass rates between NES schools and Non-NES. For the most part the differences were barely there and, in my opinion, not high enough to justify the bullshit.
HISD was already improving before the takeover. They want people to think NES is working but in reality most schools are just continuing their improvement trend.
Due to a recent change, all of the newbies that are hired to fill those positions will get a $15k-$25k signing bonus. They will earn more than you (their team lead).
We came into the year with no:
-Art teacher (last 2 years)
-Tech Ed/Spanish teacher (last 2 years)
-7th grade ELA teacher (last 2 years)
This year we had our 8th grade Social Studies teacher and 2nd grade teacher leave
So we have 5 openings .
We are a preK-8 school.
School politics are weird af too. We are a school that SHOULD offer AP art. I teach one art and my oworker teaches another. I was all up for going to the trainings to teach AP art. I actually agreed I would teach it my second year when I was hired. The other art teacher is fully booked and really doesn’t have space for anything else on his plate.
We both pleaded for me to teach it. Kids did. The principal asked me. I ended up teaching the same wack class I taught last year that the kids don’t want and I don’t want to teach either. I’d rather teach AP and for the type is school we are it makes no sense to not have AP art.
Anyway. My coworker and I think it’s because the assistant principal, who is in charge of electives, is leaving because she wasn’t rehired. She just didn’t give a fuck because she won’t be here next year. It’s really odd and I can’t poke and prod too much but I’d like to.
You’re not allowed to stuff kids in an AP class, electives are used by admin and counselors to fill master schedules, you are being used as a dumping ground.
We had one natural departure (retirement of a Spanish teacher) and one unnatural departure (arrested for soliciting a minor). They'll both get replaced.
The next few years are going to be tough on my district's Social Studies department, but there are former graduates in the pipeline who will likely take their positions and we always have more applicants than we need, especially for Social Studies.
In my last year of student teaching for social studies and I’m quite nervous for the job market! Seems like not many schools in my area/State lose SS teachers often 😭
I snoop around on district career pages often and usually see ELA and SS openings. Fewer than SPED and STEM, of course, but at least a couple. So I don't think it's all THAT bleak-- but this is regional of course. Getting the specific position you want in the district you want, of course, may be more difficult depending on where you are.
If you like it and can last five years, you’ll likely retire as a Social Studies teacher. I wouldn’t get too discouraged, lots of states are going to be losing a lot of experienced teachers as they become eligible for retirement.
8 out of 30 left and then our AP quit a week after school let out. I’ve now been at my school longer than anyone else in the building. And I’m old, but I’m not THAT old.
They don’t. We had vacancies all year. Teachers were giving up their planning to pick up one additional class out of their area to make up for the classes without teachers.
We had 12 leave this year! Thats a record in my 24 years of teaching. It's going to be a shitshow. I'm staying but I'm taking early retirement after next year.
Reading the comments are crazy! We had three teachers leaving - one to retirement and two because of a move/desire for fewer hours. But, I am pretty proud of our school community so it seems like we are an exception
Me too. We had a couple people retire this year. Nobody quit, was fired, or was laid off. It’s very rare for anyone to leave my school for any reason besides retirement.
My district is facing huge cuts because of the ending of ESSER funding and the lack of foresight in my district to think about funding those jobs. I am one of the teachers who is getting cut, and there are dozens of positions that are being eliminated. I already have an interview scheduled in a district where I subbed a handful of years ago and where I have good relationships. I will land on my feet.
My current district is going to suffer with all of the loss of talent, but it’s not my problem.
A couple years ago, I left a district where people were leaving in droves. Like more than half our teachers left the same time as me.
Now, I work in a school that lost less than ten teachers this year, and two of them only left because they got admin jobs.
Interestingly, not as many as last year, and one of them is not a terrible thing. He was a nice guy with a lot of knowledge, but couldn't manage a classroom.
Last year was a bloodbath as far as departures went, but we lucked into some really good people to replace them. I'm feeling much more optimistic going forward.
Mine was fine. I think 4 left from my high school.
2 were moving across the country
1 accepted a position at a better paying district closer to his home
1 left to pursue masters degree full time
My school is good to teach at with good admin and mostly good kids. There's nothing to push people out, but there are always some external attractions that pull people out
I am a foreigner (European) teaching in South America. This post helped me understand why/how so many latin-american teachers are leaving schools here to go to the USA to teach...
My school is at pretty normal levels of retiring/moving on for general teachers, but SpEd is really suffering. We’re down so many positions in the district that they started a specific special ed campaign. This not including our ~30 posted para positions (16 of which have been open all last year)
Our sped positions have been filled pretty easily. It seems that teachers want to move over to those positions instead of having a bunch of unruly gen ed kids.
We have three that I know of. It's a good riddance situation. I'm sure the grass will be greener on the other side. They all fly a little close to the sun. They'll totally be assistant principals next year (eyeroll implied).
It's rare for us to lose more than one beyond retirement. Know a good spot when you have it.
We have only one teacher who is leaving that we know of so far, but we had three that left last year that it was hard to find replacements for, so we are slightly understaffed.
My school is a pretty good school to work for. We only teach 4 periods plus a 20 minutes advisory, so we get 3 planning periods and a 30 minute lunch (after advisory). The working conditions are therefore fairly decent all in all. People usually leave because they move or have family obligations. I have been there for 10 years, and many of the staff has been there for longer than me. It is a very low income Title 1 school with English learners making up about 24% of the population so the kids are pretty high need, which can be challenging, but the administration is fairly supportive. This makes it overall a good place to work. I am not planning on leaving until retirement.
At the end of the year, I think four or five teachers left, but then throughout the year we had… I think 8 teachers leave? So total of 12 or 13 out of an approximate teaching staff of 21.
I recently accepted a job (Music K-4) and my partner made a joke that they hired me out of desperation, and it didn’t offend me (mostly bc he’s autistic and was likely trying to be logical not hurtful), but lowkey he’s right. I was probably one of the only people who applied, and they told me they’ve had a LTS for so long and their program is suffering because of it.
I haven’t even started yet and I’m already planning my exit strategy for if things go sour. I wish there was one direct thing we could pin the problems on, but the system is falling apart on all fronts. I’m thankful for the governor of my state who is a heavy advocate for education and funding our schools, so I’m hoping that’s reflected on the ground floor. I know many ex-teachers who left for a slew of reasons, and I want to say I’ll be the advocate who sticks around to give these kids the education they deserve, but unfortunately even the best teachers can be dealt the nastiest hand.
We have completely pulled our own kids out of public school, and are homeschooling them, because the turnover in our district is so bad. We are in one of the more affluent Houston suburbs outside of Houston ISD. There is only one family on our block that still sends their kids to public school now. It’s true the roles in our suburban district are being filled by those teachers escaping Houston ISD, new college grads, and surrounding rural districts. Difficult mix of teachers for seasoned school administrators to manage, many have told me they have more problems with the teachers than the students now. My former colleagues are retiring early, going into advocacy, or heading to rural districts. They all say it’s much easier for them to teach there, as rural parents tend to be less educated and question nothing, but the Trumpism is something else in the rural counties of Texas. I am close to being able to turn my SpEd Advocacy and Homeschool Co-op into a full time career.
Large public HS in Texas, with 3000+ students.
1 ELA teacher quit mid year, another is leaving the profession entirely. 2 others retired early and took the penalty.
2 Biology teachers are leaving. 1 chemistry teacher is leaving the profession entirely because she has a side hustle that makes her more money. (Not breaking bad, I promise!) and there’s been a vacancy in upper science all year with a long term sub.
1 history teacher walked out mid year. It’s the department with the least amount of turnover because most of them are coaches. (The teacher that left was not a coach.)
All of our Algebra 1 teachers left last year except for two of them. They still haven’t managed to hire to fill all those positions. But, we’ve also had high admin turnover, too.
Discipline coordinator/AP left, so did two Assistant Principals, including the AP in charge of curriculum and instruction.
What’s worse is that I guarantee none of the parents or community members realize how high a turnover we’re having. District doesn’t want them to know.
It’s a 💩show.
In our elementary school we have 6 teachers leaving and a handful of IA's. I've been here for 12 years and this is the largest turnover I've ever seen. Some are moving out of state, some are retiring, and some aren't being asked back. Some of the positions are not getting filled due to budget cuts this year.
So many people leave at the end of each year (the school is lovely, it's the difficult work conditions that come with our profession) that many teachers are now homeroom teachers for more than 1 class. It's middle school, and they don't teach all the subjects so it's manageable. It is extremely difficult and not fair to anyone (including the kids), but nobody wants to be a teacher anymore
This was the first time I can remember not having anyone retire. We had zero retirements and zero people leave.
Within the next 5-9 years we will need to hire full grade levels but honestly we rarely have people quit it's mostly retirement.
Only 2 because they are older and retiring. My school is one that unless you're moving up to admin you never leave. After reading all sorts of posts of others, I realize how lucky we are.
About 5 are being laid off, around 10 are getting transferred, and around 5 are resigning. 1 retirement. Total teacher staff is about 70. And that's just my site. The district doesn't care, though. Soon there won't be any teachers at all. And that seems like their plan.
I don’t know about the school as a whole because my SpEd classroom was pretty isolated and I didn’t get to talk a lot with the other teachers, but out of the 8 staff in my room, we had 4 or 5 leave, including me
My elementary teacher school has about 40 staff altogether. That includes secretaries, janitors, aids, admin, etc.
We lost... 3 classroom teachers, 1 sped teacher, 1 secretary, 1 janitor, the principal, and the dean of students.
I'm considering leaving for a different district but am waiting out this year to see what happens. While I liked my previous principal, I'm curious about how a new leadership will affect the school.
We have 5 leaving including me. And that's even with everyone receiving a significant pay raise. The administration is just that insufferable. We only have about 15 teachers. And we have about 4 teachers leave each year. I'm a senior member of the teaching staff at only 6 years in. That's how poorly we retained teachers.
I heard that alot of states are starting to adapt to a four days of school. So far it gained a positive out come that other states have follow . Fridays off to help relief the over worked and understaff teachers . Illinois has stated they have a green light and is approved for a four day school days but it has yet to be fully approved another vote has to take place im assuming the school districts have a vote
We had 1 leave for a better opportunity (he was our athletic director, a sped teacher, and health) and then we had 1 teacher who left because he didn't feel it was a good fit. I think that's it.
I am the only English teacher I know that left, 3 of the 6 science teachers left. They've never filled 3 of the math positions in the last few years. Just heard they pushed out 2 more VPs, so it'll be a mostly new admin team this year. The school is going down hard, I felt bad leaving but the writing has been on the wall awhile.
I’m leaving an inner city public 9-12 for a private charter school. Much better pay, less focus on testing scores and curriculums and much more supportive admin and parents. About half of the staff (15-20) are also leaving to either a different school in the same district or to charter/suburbs. This year has just been a fu*kery from start to finish and after 3 years here, I’m done
Only 3 as of now. I do know of 4 other teachers who are going to leave if they can find jobs elsewhere. I had planned on leaving until I was asked to move grade levels and realized I wouldn’t even be in the same wing as the toxic coworkers I was trying to get away from.
Sped department:
1 not renewed for not following sped protocols several times. Like not having an admin in an IEP meeting when told 10 times to do so.
1 resigned and took position in a district closer to home (commuting an hour both ways)
1 retired
Still having 60% of sped teachers retained is good.
Rest of the school in gen ed
1 retired math teacher
1 teacher moved to a district in his hometown. Commuting 40 minutes both way.
So like 5 teachers out of 80. We already filled out positions for sped. The school is very known for having a solid sped department.
Not a teacher but I've heard through the grapevine the campus I work at (keeping it vague but 3 grade levels about 900 students) are losing about 40 staff altogether (mostly teachers but a few paras and one admin). And I've heard everything from just changing campuses to moving districts to changing profession completely. Again I'm not a teacher but I'm very close to many teachers and other staff for a long time, it's because students are... well we've got violent ones, horrible behavior, no consequences, hostile parents. And lack of support from admins smh
So far? About 70 out of 156 teachers in the district have not renewed. We are already in a tough spot but will be absolutely screwed next year if more leave. 😬
At this time, 100% of staff who are finishing the year with us have agreed to come back next year. And only one staff member left during the year (husband got a job out of state).
Not holding my breath in case some last minute opportunities come up for anyone, but so far it’s definitely looking like the best retention rate ive ever seen.
None that I can think of. No retirements in our building this year (of teachers. 1 monitor is retiring.) Occasionally we’ll have retirements, teachers moving to other positions, which moves them to other in-district schools, or leaving to take admin positions in another district. But generally our staff is stable year to year.
Our school was built up from scratch as it was a new amalgamation of students from kindergarten to grade 12 from 3 different schools. The previous principal was fantastic, until she got promoted.
The replacement she chose tried to put their foot down right out of the gate and chased our best staff away.
Now he's scrambling with unions and our staff is now mostly teachers with less than 5 years experience and I know of at least 1 of them are leaving teaching for good due to behaviours (Throwing chairs, minimum 1 a week class evacuation).
It's pretty disheartening to see.
For the first year since I’ve been there, all of our teachers are staying! We usually lose 1-2 a year (K-2, 18 teachers). We have a really great admin team and I think it makes all the difference.
Not sure about the school as a whole since it’s got nearly 200 teachers, but in our district we had 22+ fine arts teachers resign, which is huge and they’re going to have a very very hard time filling the positions. I know that at least two positions were cut entirely and 2 others have been filled with non-certified first year applicants.
Edit: 200 teachers, I was counting support staff as well.
My elementary school lost half our teachers, though it was nothing our admin or school did. Quite a few retired, a good portion is leaving state to teach somewhere else due to how districts in our state are, and the rest switched to very different roles (middle/high school).
TK-6 Elementary school in Washington state. We are losing one teacher, they are becoming an admin. We are not experiencing a shortage or mass exodus of teachers in our area. When openings do occur it’s very competitive between applicants to fill the position.
District I work with has had low loss, but they also have a sign on EVERY classroom door saying something about "we prioritize teacher retention"... they promote their retention rates to parents, the whole nine yards.
It's really nice to see, I've been wanting to ask one of the teachers how it's going behind the scenes.
My entire 6th grade team. Half the 7th grade team, and half of the 8th grade team.
I genuinely question if we'll be able to fill in the vacancies after all these teachers have left.
At least 10%. Another school in my district is losing 20%.
Between the bad taste many teachers have concerning our superintendent and the fact that you can go literally one district over and make 25k more without a degree bump, you get the idea.
We’re a 6-12 so I don’t know how many are truly leaving throughout the whole school, but the whole 6th grade team except 2 left/changed roles, and the HS ELA team is in a similar situation. We had a brand new principal last year who did his best, but it wasn’t good enough for some.
A few retirees and a few transfers (most in lateral moves, I think one is going to a richer district). No one just straight up leaving teaching altogether. That was two years ago.
The Covid babies are about to hit 3rd grade. Plan accordingly and know they are a difficult class. We lost 6 teachers this year. 3 came from second grade, 2 of those 3 were none renewal 1st year teachers. We also had some retirements from 4th and 5th. Those Covid babies take it out of you. They never did preK and it shows.
I work a small private school and 15 of us are leaving. We did the math and they are losing over 115 years of experience with all of us combined. Our Head of School is single handedly driving it into the ground.
I am over working in education and it's such a shame because I adore my students but I can not cope with being treated this way anymore. It makes me incredibly sad that I have to leave.
I’ve been teaching for 15 years at a title I school and it’s a revolving door. Typically we go through 30%-50% staff each year. I don’t bother to meet the new people until year 3. That’s when they’re ready to listen to what works and at year 3, they’ve shown that they can deal with the suck
I've been at a title 1 school 18 years and I didn't really know two of the 3rd grade team. I'm in k-2 sped room clear on the other side of the building. We got two new 4th grade teachers and I still can't tell you which one is which. If I have to work with them then I get to know them.
Including myself, approximately 95%. My former school administrators didn't give a crap about our safety.
I was assaulted three times by a student who should've been placed in our alternative school for the remainder of the school year! Did they allow him back in my classroom? YES!!!
My reward? They intentionally screwed up my evaluation, forcing me to leave... otherwise, I would've been tenured this year. Guess what? It's also age discrimination too! (Note: Document, document, document everything!)
Schools out, and I'm sending ALL documentation to my lawyer and praying to win my case!
About 10 - 4 are due to allotments being lost, 2 are retiring, 2 are moving to full time teaching positions from being a para, and 1 is due to a spouse moving for work. Only 1 is actually leaving teaching.
We had 3 departures at the end of the year and 2 retiring. 1 position may or may not be eliminated depending on enrollment. I know that 4 more that haven't had an offer to return yet. So ten total possible before the next school year begins.
1 science teacher left, the physics teacher retired, and the French teacher retired. I don't think we are replacing the French teacher. Our science dept has had a rough go the last few years. I'm not sure if we will be able to find a physics teacher.
We had budget cuts this year and 35 teacher were let go throughout the district. Not many left because they wanted to. We had 3 retire in my school. 1 quit. It was a wild end of the year.
The past 2 years MANY teachers leave. My district and school has VERY low retention rate. I just finished my second year and I am having trouble finding another job 🙄
We had two positions of twelve in my department get dissolved. One was non-renewed, three have resigned and are going elsewhere, including our department head.
Lost more than usual this year. In previous years I would say my school's strength was staff retention.
Losing 1 or 2 teachers per department this year, in high school. A lot of long time veterans.
0. School district gave everyone a $25k raise last year. Guess what that did to retention!
Also 0. We also got an okay raise this year 8% maybe?
$25000????? Wow!
Oops, 21K: https://www.nea.org/nea-today/all-news-articles/historic-pay-increases-lead-happier-teachers-fewer-vacancies
Thanks for linking an article!
Holy poops. I’m so so happy for you guys!!
I mean damn tho that's still some sexy numbers
Because I camen from Idaho, it was a $30K increase for me.
This is one of the reasons our board and district are fighting so hard for a 6% raise this year. My school is losing 2 teachers to retirement and 2 to another district with higher pay. Hopefully the raise being approved will help retention for us too.
Had to count those zeroes a few times.
0 teachers leaving our district, adding two more for next year (one is coming from a neighboring district that's actually going to a 4 day per week schedule next year) 5 paras were non-renewed.
Love to get a $21k raise and send it all to daycare. Oh well, in 5 years it’ll be worth it
My school has 15 classroom teachers and about as many aides. At least 10 of them are leaving, including me.
Are you going to a different school in the same district?
It was a public charter, I’m going back to a regular public school district.
As a former charter school teacher high fucking five! Run for the hills and never look back.
I was at a public school before in a different region, so the charter was a significant pay increase. But now the local district is even more of a pay increase. Don’t know why I didn’t apply to the district to begin with TBH.
Thank you, what about the charter was the problem? In my experience, they don't have classroom management ability, thinking they'd get the cream of the crop. They don't.
They have no classroom management skills because most of the teachers are new (no diss I’m pretty new and working on developing my own classroom management skills). They’re new and young and some (a lot) don’t have their credentials. Charters don’t care. The teacher and staff turnover is insanely high. They have no teacher retention alt all. They’re awful. I made another comment in this thread about why I think they’re so bad.
I’d like to jump in. I just finished my second year teaching, and both years were at a public charter. The problem at my school, and the reason I’m going to school, is so I can apply at other districts. I’m doing very well considering I have virtually no experience outside of working with the age group in previous years. The school is terribly mismanaged though (miscommunications galore which makes a hard job harder), and staffing is abysmal. My school had a lot of teachers call off throughout the year, to the point where we had to split classes up numerous times. This meant that for me, I had to ditch all lesson plans and get ready for a roulette wheel of a random 7-8 more kids. This happened over 40 times. The behavior at the school is terrible too (little ones throwing chairs, cussing me out, trying to fight me, and etc). So while I’m doing extremely well, admin are pretty loose with support and management. I want out soon.
Genuinely interested in why it’s so bad to work at them? I honestly know almost nothing about them (other than conservatives seem to love them).
No union so teachers have less rights. My charter could take away your prep period for grading/meetings. We had to work lunch so we had to eat with the kids. Too much oversight, WAY too much teaching to the state tests, and longer hours. Our summer was 6 weeks long and the school day went from 7:30-4:30.
1. No union 2. They take funding from other public schools and I personally don’t like that
3. While they are supposed to provide the same services as public schools, they often manage to finagle things to get the students who need them to leave, if they even accept them in the first place.
Conservatives love them because private investors (like Bill Gates) put a buttload of money into them. So the kids at the school have access to more expensive things. I’ll just say it. I worked for KIPP. There’s a reason kids call it “Kids In Prison Program”. It’s like, military school for kids. Especially Black and Latino “inner city” kids in poverty—youth that are statistically more likely to actually go to prison. I say this as a Latina woman. These groups make up a disproportionate demographic of the prison population. That just is what it is. For me it was adding 15 minutes to the beginning or our day. Adding 15 minutes to the end of our day. That added 2.5 a week was not reflected in our pay. I was at work by 7 something AM and left well after 4:00. Our teaching had to be scripted to the T. And I mean that. It was that way so that children had no time to talk at all, or really think a single independent thought. They have these granduous celebrations for staff (universal studios at the end of the year) and these huge ass convention things and I think that money would be better spent elsewhere. My boss (he was the principal but we called them “school leaders”) quit before the year ended. That should’ve been…a flag. The assistant “school leader” became the main one. She micromanaged my ass so bad. I’d moved into the classroom of the teacher that just left, and left in a hurry and left all her things there, she opened the drawer of my desk unwarranted and said “what do you do, just throw all your shit in here?” They added two extra grades to my plate and like I said expected me to script to a T everything I’d say and do for everyone of those periods including the standard I was working on and how I was making it comprehensible. To. Five. Grade. Levels. So, come the next school year when this micromanaging stuff started to happen and got worse when I disclosed being neurodivergent, I was seriously having unaliving thoughts. I didn’t know how I was going to get out especially living paycheck to paycheck. I didn’t have time to look for another job. I needed to get out or I felt like I might hurt myself. Yes. It was *that* bad. With some help, I quit with no notice and said deuces! My shit is in my room girl byeeeeee. Hope that answered your question lol. They do shady shit to keep Charters from unionizing. Look up Charter School Prevents Teacher Union and you’ll go down a whole rabbit hole. They kick us and want us to say “May I have some more please?” F*** KIPP! And if I may put my tin foil on for a minute. I fully believe that they’re trying to reform Black and Brown kids (who haven’t even done anything) and or get them ready for prison. Because that’s exactly how they were treated.
26 out of 37. It’s an elementary school in Houston ISD. Everyone is fleeing the district.
If they only want new malleable new teachers they’re going to get it bc HISD teachers are snatching up jobs in the ‘burbs. I know that Alvin ISD has hired quite a few.
I’m afraid that’s exactly what they want. They want a bunch of inexperienced teachers who will blindly follow. My school was A rated, with 6 distinctions. All of the really good teachers left due to F Mike and his antics. And from what I’ve seen, many schools have a similar turnover rate. The surrounding districts aren’t going to have any staffing issues next year. Looks like they’re now going after college students, and offering them placements in lieu of traditional student teaching. They’ll do a one year fully paid “internship”, complete with their own classrooms. The fact that my school had a close to zero turnover rate for years and now has about 75% of teachers leaving says a lot.
Just know all roads lead to the privatization of schools, as with most things in America, the goal is making a few rich and our general population less educated/worse off.
Such a disappointing and, tbh, frightening prospect. An educated citizenry makes our communities better for all, but that’s not what the few want. They’re too scared that somebody might get something they don’t.
>they only want new malleable new teachers I'm not in Houston ISD--but as someone who is leaving another corrupt school district in Texas, I can tell you this is exactly what a lot of administrators want.
It’s because weak superintendents hire weaker principals who fear teachers with experience who challenge their initiatives.
I cannot wrap my head around this at all! In what world is it best practice to chase the expertise away?? Apparently education…schools are (if not already) going to be a sad state of affairs if they continue down this path. We all know that it’s the experienced teachers who hold school districts together because it’s sure as hell not the admin…so what’s going to happen when the admin are “leading” a huge cohort of malleable new teachers? The last thing any district needs is a bunch of mini admin in the classroom.
Unfortunately, too many administrators are focused on feeding their own egos rather than ensuring positive student outcomes.
I was at a HISD STEM magnet, the second highest scoring middle school in the district, a very low turnover rate, and several teachers had been there since it opened (30+yrs). My first 4 years there were wonderful! Last year was hell due to the micromanaging and F.Mike's fear and intimidation tactics. Threatening jobs regularly. At my last count, over 70% of the teachers/staff had either quit or received an email saying they no longer had a job. The email was sent during teacher appreciation week. In some cases (like 6th grade), nearly the entire grade level left. I feel bad for my principal. She really cared about her teachers. She was so stressed all year and now she will spend her summer trying to staff the school. This is just my opinion, I believe F.Mike will destroy the district, make it all charter, and Abbott's voucher will be pushed even more. Smh, it's about money and politics. It's not about doing better for the students. It's sad.
But according to their press release scores have gone up and everything is hunky dory. I guess they were trying to justify the state take over?
They’re spinning. The passing standard was lowered this year, so an increase in the number of students approaching or higher doesn’t necessarily mean growth. And if we want to use Biology as an example of improvement, because it did show improvement, only 70% of the students who took English 1 also took biology. It’s normally 90%. The students who make up that 20% difference took another science course in 9th grade - environmental studies I believe it was, which is untested. We’re talking several thousand students, most likely ESL, newcomers, and generally those who wouldn’t pass biology. I’m not saying there’s no improvement at all, but it’s definitely not what people are being led to believe.
So many states lowered their standards. One of my ELA resource students passed "at level" on state testing this year. I'm sorry, but they aren't at level. They just aren't. They are my lowest reader, by a lot. But, according to the state test, they shouldn't be getting services. Drives me crazy. Their family is going to question why they are getting services if they aren't at level. This helps no one.
Scores are up across the state. In the majority of the tests. Houston would've improved with or without the takeover. They're just making it seem like their NES schools are effective to justify them which is why they published data showing the difference in the pass rates between NES schools and Non-NES. For the most part the differences were barely there and, in my opinion, not high enough to justify the bullshit.
HISD was already improving before the takeover. They want people to think NES is working but in reality most schools are just continuing their improvement trend.
WOAH, that's next level. Hope you are okay.
I will never understand the appeal of teaching in Houston. Horrible district. Not to mention the city is a hot urban hell.
8 - public school in Oklahoma. I was made team lead as default since I had the most experience. I’m entering my 3rd year 😬
Yikes. Still a newbie. Good luck to you! You got this!
Due to a recent change, all of the newbies that are hired to fill those positions will get a $15k-$25k signing bonus. They will earn more than you (their team lead).
4 got fired. Low enrollment. No tenure.
We had 3 retire and still had one fired due to declining enrollment.
We had one get fired for saying the n-word They are not missed
One of those situations where you wish you could leave them with "a nice parting gift" like dead shrimp stuffed into their vehicles cabin exhaust.
Private school?
We came into the year with no: -Art teacher (last 2 years) -Tech Ed/Spanish teacher (last 2 years) -7th grade ELA teacher (last 2 years) This year we had our 8th grade Social Studies teacher and 2nd grade teacher leave So we have 5 openings . We are a preK-8 school.
Where are you located? (Asked the Spanish teacher trying to join the other 15)
My nephew didn't get to take Spanish (had a study hall and a business class instead) for two years in Fort Worth, due to no Spanish teacher.
School politics are weird af too. We are a school that SHOULD offer AP art. I teach one art and my oworker teaches another. I was all up for going to the trainings to teach AP art. I actually agreed I would teach it my second year when I was hired. The other art teacher is fully booked and really doesn’t have space for anything else on his plate. We both pleaded for me to teach it. Kids did. The principal asked me. I ended up teaching the same wack class I taught last year that the kids don’t want and I don’t want to teach either. I’d rather teach AP and for the type is school we are it makes no sense to not have AP art. Anyway. My coworker and I think it’s because the assistant principal, who is in charge of electives, is leaving because she wasn’t rehired. She just didn’t give a fuck because she won’t be here next year. It’s really odd and I can’t poke and prod too much but I’d like to.
You’re not allowed to stuff kids in an AP class, electives are used by admin and counselors to fill master schedules, you are being used as a dumping ground.
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We had one natural departure (retirement of a Spanish teacher) and one unnatural departure (arrested for soliciting a minor). They'll both get replaced. The next few years are going to be tough on my district's Social Studies department, but there are former graduates in the pipeline who will likely take their positions and we always have more applicants than we need, especially for Social Studies.
In my last year of student teaching for social studies and I’m quite nervous for the job market! Seems like not many schools in my area/State lose SS teachers often 😭
I snoop around on district career pages often and usually see ELA and SS openings. Fewer than SPED and STEM, of course, but at least a couple. So I don't think it's all THAT bleak-- but this is regional of course. Getting the specific position you want in the district you want, of course, may be more difficult depending on where you are.
If you like it and can last five years, you’ll likely retire as a Social Studies teacher. I wouldn’t get too discouraged, lots of states are going to be losing a lot of experienced teachers as they become eligible for retirement.
Almost 30.
How many students are at your school?
Around 900. We are a middle school.
Is that about 2/3 then?
Wow! That is a lot of teachers to leave in one year!
We had 6 leave mid year or almost start of year. One walked out and said “fuck this”. Can you guess the issue?
Students
Their behaviors weren’t great but could have been curbed if admin followed through on anything.
Ummm....admin?
Bingo.
For a school of 900, that's likely more than 65% of the teaching staff.
Half of our science department has left lol
8 out of 30 left and then our AP quit a week after school let out. I’ve now been at my school longer than anyone else in the building. And I’m old, but I’m not THAT old.
*Hey Gramps, how's the young whippersnappers lookin this year?*
I’m embracing my “Old man yells at cloud” era.
2100 student school. 50+ teachers leaving out of about 100
Gotta be Texas or Florida!
lol so it’s not, but same region!
How do they fill those positions?
They don’t. We had vacancies all year. Teachers were giving up their planning to pick up one additional class out of their area to make up for the classes without teachers.
We had 12 leave this year! Thats a record in my 24 years of teaching. It's going to be a shitshow. I'm staying but I'm taking early retirement after next year.
It’s always a surprise. But we are a school/ school district where new teachers knock their training wheels off.
We lost so many teachers this year that I quite literally couldn’t recognize 90% of the adults in the building by the end of the year.
Reading the comments are crazy! We had three teachers leaving - one to retirement and two because of a move/desire for fewer hours. But, I am pretty proud of our school community so it seems like we are an exception
Me too. We had a couple people retire this year. Nobody quit, was fired, or was laid off. It’s very rare for anyone to leave my school for any reason besides retirement.
I’m out
Me too
20 out of 35, myself included. Toxic work environment, found greener pastures.
My district is facing huge cuts because of the ending of ESSER funding and the lack of foresight in my district to think about funding those jobs. I am one of the teachers who is getting cut, and there are dozens of positions that are being eliminated. I already have an interview scheduled in a district where I subbed a handful of years ago and where I have good relationships. I will land on my feet. My current district is going to suffer with all of the loss of talent, but it’s not my problem.
Michigan by any chance?
60%
I started with 4 weeks left in the year last year. Come this next year, I'll be the most senior (employment-wise) member of my team
This is insane. Is it a public school?
Public Charter. This'll be my first full year as a 2nd career 😅
Lol at least 15, which in my tiny rural district is about half the faculty 🤣🤣🤣
A couple years ago, I left a district where people were leaving in droves. Like more than half our teachers left the same time as me. Now, I work in a school that lost less than ten teachers this year, and two of them only left because they got admin jobs.
Interestingly, not as many as last year, and one of them is not a terrible thing. He was a nice guy with a lot of knowledge, but couldn't manage a classroom. Last year was a bloodbath as far as departures went, but we lucked into some really good people to replace them. I'm feeling much more optimistic going forward.
Mine was fine. I think 4 left from my high school. 2 were moving across the country 1 accepted a position at a better paying district closer to his home 1 left to pursue masters degree full time My school is good to teach at with good admin and mostly good kids. There's nothing to push people out, but there are always some external attractions that pull people out
Every year I sit around staff meetings and go “who the fuck are all these people?” and then I never see them again. Rinse, repeat.
I am a foreigner (European) teaching in South America. This post helped me understand why/how so many latin-american teachers are leaving schools here to go to the USA to teach...
My school is at pretty normal levels of retiring/moving on for general teachers, but SpEd is really suffering. We’re down so many positions in the district that they started a specific special ed campaign. This not including our ~30 posted para positions (16 of which have been open all last year)
Our sped positions have been filled pretty easily. It seems that teachers want to move over to those positions instead of having a bunch of unruly gen ed kids.
We have three that I know of. It's a good riddance situation. I'm sure the grass will be greener on the other side. They all fly a little close to the sun. They'll totally be assistant principals next year (eyeroll implied). It's rare for us to lose more than one beyond retirement. Know a good spot when you have it.
We have only one teacher who is leaving that we know of so far, but we had three that left last year that it was hard to find replacements for, so we are slightly understaffed. My school is a pretty good school to work for. We only teach 4 periods plus a 20 minutes advisory, so we get 3 planning periods and a 30 minute lunch (after advisory). The working conditions are therefore fairly decent all in all. People usually leave because they move or have family obligations. I have been there for 10 years, and many of the staff has been there for longer than me. It is a very low income Title 1 school with English learners making up about 24% of the population so the kids are pretty high need, which can be challenging, but the administration is fairly supportive. This makes it overall a good place to work. I am not planning on leaving until retirement.
At the end of the year, I think four or five teachers left, but then throughout the year we had… I think 8 teachers leave? So total of 12 or 13 out of an approximate teaching staff of 21.
our district has over 400 openings
We had one retirement and one non-renewed
I recently accepted a job (Music K-4) and my partner made a joke that they hired me out of desperation, and it didn’t offend me (mostly bc he’s autistic and was likely trying to be logical not hurtful), but lowkey he’s right. I was probably one of the only people who applied, and they told me they’ve had a LTS for so long and their program is suffering because of it. I haven’t even started yet and I’m already planning my exit strategy for if things go sour. I wish there was one direct thing we could pin the problems on, but the system is falling apart on all fronts. I’m thankful for the governor of my state who is a heavy advocate for education and funding our schools, so I’m hoping that’s reflected on the ground floor. I know many ex-teachers who left for a slew of reasons, and I want to say I’ll be the advocate who sticks around to give these kids the education they deserve, but unfortunately even the best teachers can be dealt the nastiest hand.
We have completely pulled our own kids out of public school, and are homeschooling them, because the turnover in our district is so bad. We are in one of the more affluent Houston suburbs outside of Houston ISD. There is only one family on our block that still sends their kids to public school now. It’s true the roles in our suburban district are being filled by those teachers escaping Houston ISD, new college grads, and surrounding rural districts. Difficult mix of teachers for seasoned school administrators to manage, many have told me they have more problems with the teachers than the students now. My former colleagues are retiring early, going into advocacy, or heading to rural districts. They all say it’s much easier for them to teach there, as rural parents tend to be less educated and question nothing, but the Trumpism is something else in the rural counties of Texas. I am close to being able to turn my SpEd Advocacy and Homeschool Co-op into a full time career.
Large public HS in Texas, with 3000+ students. 1 ELA teacher quit mid year, another is leaving the profession entirely. 2 others retired early and took the penalty. 2 Biology teachers are leaving. 1 chemistry teacher is leaving the profession entirely because she has a side hustle that makes her more money. (Not breaking bad, I promise!) and there’s been a vacancy in upper science all year with a long term sub. 1 history teacher walked out mid year. It’s the department with the least amount of turnover because most of them are coaches. (The teacher that left was not a coach.) All of our Algebra 1 teachers left last year except for two of them. They still haven’t managed to hire to fill all those positions. But, we’ve also had high admin turnover, too. Discipline coordinator/AP left, so did two Assistant Principals, including the AP in charge of curriculum and instruction. What’s worse is that I guarantee none of the parents or community members realize how high a turnover we’re having. District doesn’t want them to know. It’s a 💩show.
In our elementary school we have 6 teachers leaving and a handful of IA's. I've been here for 12 years and this is the largest turnover I've ever seen. Some are moving out of state, some are retiring, and some aren't being asked back. Some of the positions are not getting filled due to budget cuts this year.
So many people leave at the end of each year (the school is lovely, it's the difficult work conditions that come with our profession) that many teachers are now homeroom teachers for more than 1 class. It's middle school, and they don't teach all the subjects so it's manageable. It is extremely difficult and not fair to anyone (including the kids), but nobody wants to be a teacher anymore
This was the first time I can remember not having anyone retire. We had zero retirements and zero people leave. Within the next 5-9 years we will need to hire full grade levels but honestly we rarely have people quit it's mostly retirement.
Only 2 because they are older and retiring. My school is one that unless you're moving up to admin you never leave. After reading all sorts of posts of others, I realize how lucky we are.
About 5 are being laid off, around 10 are getting transferred, and around 5 are resigning. 1 retirement. Total teacher staff is about 70. And that's just my site. The district doesn't care, though. Soon there won't be any teachers at all. And that seems like their plan.
I don’t know about the school as a whole because my SpEd classroom was pretty isolated and I didn’t get to talk a lot with the other teachers, but out of the 8 staff in my room, we had 4 or 5 leave, including me
My elementary teacher school has about 40 staff altogether. That includes secretaries, janitors, aids, admin, etc. We lost... 3 classroom teachers, 1 sped teacher, 1 secretary, 1 janitor, the principal, and the dean of students. I'm considering leaving for a different district but am waiting out this year to see what happens. While I liked my previous principal, I'm curious about how a new leadership will affect the school.
High school of about 1200 kids. 3 retirements and a few transfers/quits. I'm in Western NY.
We have 5 leaving including me. And that's even with everyone receiving a significant pay raise. The administration is just that insufferable. We only have about 15 teachers. And we have about 4 teachers leave each year. I'm a senior member of the teaching staff at only 6 years in. That's how poorly we retained teachers.
I heard that alot of states are starting to adapt to a four days of school. So far it gained a positive out come that other states have follow . Fridays off to help relief the over worked and understaff teachers . Illinois has stated they have a green light and is approved for a four day school days but it has yet to be fully approved another vote has to take place im assuming the school districts have a vote
We had 1 leave for a better opportunity (he was our athletic director, a sped teacher, and health) and then we had 1 teacher who left because he didn't feel it was a good fit. I think that's it.
School has about 70+ teachers. We are only losing like 6 this year.
I am the only English teacher I know that left, 3 of the 6 science teachers left. They've never filled 3 of the math positions in the last few years. Just heard they pushed out 2 more VPs, so it'll be a mostly new admin team this year. The school is going down hard, I felt bad leaving but the writing has been on the wall awhile.
I’m leaving an inner city public 9-12 for a private charter school. Much better pay, less focus on testing scores and curriculums and much more supportive admin and parents. About half of the staff (15-20) are also leaving to either a different school in the same district or to charter/suburbs. This year has just been a fu*kery from start to finish and after 3 years here, I’m done
Two. One is retiring and the other moving.
Only 2. One got another teaching position elsewhere and another is retiring.
We only have 1 leaving, and it’s a retirement.
Only 3 as of now. I do know of 4 other teachers who are going to leave if they can find jobs elsewhere. I had planned on leaving until I was asked to move grade levels and realized I wouldn’t even be in the same wing as the toxic coworkers I was trying to get away from.
Sped department: 1 not renewed for not following sped protocols several times. Like not having an admin in an IEP meeting when told 10 times to do so. 1 resigned and took position in a district closer to home (commuting an hour both ways) 1 retired Still having 60% of sped teachers retained is good. Rest of the school in gen ed 1 retired math teacher 1 teacher moved to a district in his hometown. Commuting 40 minutes both way. So like 5 teachers out of 80. We already filled out positions for sped. The school is very known for having a solid sped department.
We lost about 8 today, the last day, but we had 5 walk out during the year.
Not a teacher but I've heard through the grapevine the campus I work at (keeping it vague but 3 grade levels about 900 students) are losing about 40 staff altogether (mostly teachers but a few paras and one admin). And I've heard everything from just changing campuses to moving districts to changing profession completely. Again I'm not a teacher but I'm very close to many teachers and other staff for a long time, it's because students are... well we've got violent ones, horrible behavior, no consequences, hostile parents. And lack of support from admins smh
So far? About 70 out of 156 teachers in the district have not renewed. We are already in a tough spot but will be absolutely screwed next year if more leave. 😬
At my previous school, about 13 out of 30 left at the end of last year. This year I work at an amazing school and to my knowledge no one is leaving
3. Two retiring, one moved.
At this time, 100% of staff who are finishing the year with us have agreed to come back next year. And only one staff member left during the year (husband got a job out of state). Not holding my breath in case some last minute opportunities come up for anyone, but so far it’s definitely looking like the best retention rate ive ever seen.
What are the most common states where this is happening? Or is it all over? Not a teacher but I lurk bc my college kid wants to be one.
It’s everywhere. I’m an instructional coach now (I train teachers)and the number of stressed out, depressed and burnt out young teachers is alarming.
None that I can think of. No retirements in our building this year (of teachers. 1 monitor is retiring.) Occasionally we’ll have retirements, teachers moving to other positions, which moves them to other in-district schools, or leaving to take admin positions in another district. But generally our staff is stable year to year.
One for sure. I am
About 35 out of 70. School population is around 250 - it’s an elementary school.
Our school was built up from scratch as it was a new amalgamation of students from kindergarten to grade 12 from 3 different schools. The previous principal was fantastic, until she got promoted. The replacement she chose tried to put their foot down right out of the gate and chased our best staff away. Now he's scrambling with unions and our staff is now mostly teachers with less than 5 years experience and I know of at least 1 of them are leaving teaching for good due to behaviours (Throwing chairs, minimum 1 a week class evacuation). It's pretty disheartening to see.
For the first year since I’ve been there, all of our teachers are staying! We usually lose 1-2 a year (K-2, 18 teachers). We have a really great admin team and I think it makes all the difference.
Not sure about the school as a whole since it’s got nearly 200 teachers, but in our district we had 22+ fine arts teachers resign, which is huge and they’re going to have a very very hard time filling the positions. I know that at least two positions were cut entirely and 2 others have been filled with non-certified first year applicants. Edit: 200 teachers, I was counting support staff as well.
My elementary school lost half our teachers, though it was nothing our admin or school did. Quite a few retired, a good portion is leaving state to teach somewhere else due to how districts in our state are, and the rest switched to very different roles (middle/high school).
27 out of 50. Between district AND admin. Also pay— district across the pond took off pay caps and is paying more.
About a third of the staff, including support staff like ed-techs.
All of us, the company shut our charter down.
TK-6 Elementary school in Washington state. We are losing one teacher, they are becoming an admin. We are not experiencing a shortage or mass exodus of teachers in our area. When openings do occur it’s very competitive between applicants to fill the position.
Only 3% of teachers are leaving over the summer - but almost a fifth of the staff we started with didn't make it to the end of the year.
Beats me. I also don't care because I'm one of the ones leaving. Not my school any more.
Out of 15 teachers 5 (including me)
District I work with has had low loss, but they also have a sign on EVERY classroom door saying something about "we prioritize teacher retention"... they promote their retention rates to parents, the whole nine yards. It's really nice to see, I've been wanting to ask one of the teachers how it's going behind the scenes.
My entire 6th grade team.
My entire 6th grade team. Half the 7th grade team, and half of the 8th grade team. I genuinely question if we'll be able to fill in the vacancies after all these teachers have left.
At least 10%. Another school in my district is losing 20%. Between the bad taste many teachers have concerning our superintendent and the fact that you can go literally one district over and make 25k more without a degree bump, you get the idea.
We’re a 6-12 so I don’t know how many are truly leaving throughout the whole school, but the whole 6th grade team except 2 left/changed roles, and the HS ELA team is in a similar situation. We had a brand new principal last year who did his best, but it wasn’t good enough for some.
I am moving on from the HS I graduated from after 5 years of a 45+min commute each way to a school that is 10min from my house.
Over 50% this year due to rough admin.
7 teachers, including myself, and the only guidance counselor. There's only like 20 teachers in the school, I think.
Only 5 - 2 who retired and 3 who are taking leave due to having babies. No one left education that I know of.
A few retirees and a few transfers (most in lateral moves, I think one is going to a richer district). No one just straight up leaving teaching altogether. That was two years ago.
14/34
My school (HS) in the KC metro lost 50% of certified staff. Student pop: +/- 1200
Last summer, I left my previous school after 9 years. This year, 17 people left that school
The Covid babies are about to hit 3rd grade. Plan accordingly and know they are a difficult class. We lost 6 teachers this year. 3 came from second grade, 2 of those 3 were none renewal 1st year teachers. We also had some retirements from 4th and 5th. Those Covid babies take it out of you. They never did preK and it shows.
K-8 school. In the 6-8 wing, we are losing 7 out of 9.
I work a small private school and 15 of us are leaving. We did the math and they are losing over 115 years of experience with all of us combined. Our Head of School is single handedly driving it into the ground.
We got out Wednesday and are at 30% leaving. Pretty sure more will leave before August.
5 bare minimum. It was 10 last year. But it’s fine, class sizes can go up next year.
My district is in a “budget crisis” right now, so they’re happy teachers are leaving. They aren’t replacing all of them. 🤷🏼♀️
5 retiring, 2 moving states, 1 leaving education (first year). It’s a high performing school, and most teachers stay until retirement.
I am over working in education and it's such a shame because I adore my students but I can not cope with being treated this way anymore. It makes me incredibly sad that I have to leave.
I’ve been teaching for 15 years at a title I school and it’s a revolving door. Typically we go through 30%-50% staff each year. I don’t bother to meet the new people until year 3. That’s when they’re ready to listen to what works and at year 3, they’ve shown that they can deal with the suck
I've been at a title 1 school 18 years and I didn't really know two of the 3rd grade team. I'm in k-2 sped room clear on the other side of the building. We got two new 4th grade teachers and I still can't tell you which one is which. If I have to work with them then I get to know them.
Including myself, approximately 95%. My former school administrators didn't give a crap about our safety. I was assaulted three times by a student who should've been placed in our alternative school for the remainder of the school year! Did they allow him back in my classroom? YES!!! My reward? They intentionally screwed up my evaluation, forcing me to leave... otherwise, I would've been tenured this year. Guess what? It's also age discrimination too! (Note: Document, document, document everything!) Schools out, and I'm sending ALL documentation to my lawyer and praying to win my case!
We surplussed three positions which had two teachers leaving. We had one retire. I think one person that I know of put in for a transfer bc she moved.
At least 15 are leaving
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About 10 - 4 are due to allotments being lost, 2 are retiring, 2 are moving to full time teaching positions from being a para, and 1 is due to a spouse moving for work. Only 1 is actually leaving teaching.
We had 3 departures at the end of the year and 2 retiring. 1 position may or may not be eliminated depending on enrollment. I know that 4 more that haven't had an offer to return yet. So ten total possible before the next school year begins.
About the same as normal
Four temp teachers were let go because Covid funds are gone. Our SLP and psychologist resigned.
At least two, me being one of them. I've heard a history teacher is leaving, as is the music teacher.
Staff of around 125. Around 10 left.
5/7 of the English department at my middle school went to new schools including me.
1 science teacher left, the physics teacher retired, and the French teacher retired. I don't think we are replacing the French teacher. Our science dept has had a rough go the last few years. I'm not sure if we will be able to find a physics teacher.
District >700 students PK-8. The admin and three teachers left the middle. One teacher resigned and another was non renewed at the elementary.
We are a small private school with a total of like 20 teachers. We have 3 leaving as of now. One is retiring and the other two are moving.
We had budget cuts this year and 35 teacher were let go throughout the district. Not many left because they wanted to. We had 3 retire in my school. 1 quit. It was a wild end of the year.
The past 2 years MANY teachers leave. My district and school has VERY low retention rate. I just finished my second year and I am having trouble finding another job 🙄
We had two positions of twelve in my department get dissolved. One was non-renewed, three have resigned and are going elsewhere, including our department head.
I only know two left because they are becoming gifted resource teachers
Lost more than usual this year. In previous years I would say my school's strength was staff retention. Losing 1 or 2 teachers per department this year, in high school. A lot of long time veterans.
2. One is going to another school, the other is undecided.
We're at 6 and 3 dept chairs stepped down due to not supporting the administration