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JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – Industry experts say the problem is pretty simple, nobody wants to be a teacher anymore. For multiple reasons, it’s seen less and less like a viable, fulfilling, career option.

 

The regional director of Teach for America said – the solution is simple – take steps to make teaching an attractive career once again.

 

A Florida Education Association report showed more than 9,500 teaching and support staff positions across the state of Florida are vacant.

 

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Some teachers told News4JAX that new, ill-defined restrictions on classroom instruction, such as the law critics call the ‘Don’t Say Gay’ policy and the ‘Stop WOKE’ act and other recent legislation, have stripped away a lot of the professional satisfaction of the job. 

 

They say the role of a teacher as a mentor and source of support to students is an attractive aspect of the profession, but one that is quickly disappearing in Florida.

https://www.news4jax.com/news/local/2022/07/04/largest-teachers-union-florida-is-9000-teachers-short-for-the-upcoming-school-year/

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This will happen in every state within the next decade. America doesn’t care about how it educates its youth anymore. You can’t pay teachers terrible wages and expect the supply to keep showing up years down the line. They aren’t even given a lot of their own supplies.

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Are they surprised with how they're forcing them to teach students lies, using bad text books, can't even bring up the word gay anymore to help students who get bullied, unable to express who they are if they're gay, high risk of getting shot, not paying them enough...The results of a conservative country are showing with that trash state and it isn't looking good.

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i would never live or be teacher there. they are banning books and u cant even say gay. 

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Not shocking. Both of my parents are/were public school teachers in Florida and its hell on Earth. I've never known a teacher who liked the system and politicians have turned the public against them. No one wants to work for Florida public schools and many move to other states that pay more than Monopoly money.

 

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48 minutes ago, Timber said:

Are they surprised with how they're forcing them to teach students lies, using bad text books, can't even bring up the word gay anymore to help students who get bullied, unable to express who they are if they're gay, high risk of getting shot, not paying them enough...The results of a conservative country are showing with that trash state and it isn't looking good.

Teachers salary here is pretty damn good its 25k more than j make :deadbanana4:

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59 minutes ago, MusicTalker said:

This will happen in every state within the next decade. America doesn’t care about how it educates its youth anymore. You can’t pay teachers terrible wages and expect the supply to keep showing up years down the line. They aren’t even given a lot of their own supplies.

This. Many schools are technically required to give teachers some sort of stipend to help them pay for supplies but most give absolutely nothing. And it's one thing when you're a high school teacher who just needs paper and ink basically, but many elementary school teachers spend hundreds and hundreds of dollars out of their pocket each year to get their students everything. You can spend 100+ on one class party. It has to be illegal somehow. 

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2 minutes ago, Insanity said:

Teachers salary here is pretty damn good its 25k more than j make :deadbanana4:

Where do you live, there are literally many teachers in Florida who work SECOND JOBS to pay their bills :deadbanana4:

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6 minutes ago, EnigmaticAndroid said:

Where do you live, there are literally many teachers in Florida who work SECOND JOBS to pay their bills :deadbanana4:

Texas my sister said brand new teachers get 61k here 

 

Most of my cousins are all teachers

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2 minutes ago, Insanity said:

Texas my sister said brand new teachers get 61k here 

I think the issue is that teacher jobs (in good states) end up in the same problem as many nurses where the money, comparatively, is good to other jobs, but 1) the hours in comparison are off or 2) the cost to become a teacher feels at odds with the salary since it is so often a heavily-degreed occupation. 

 

Even something basic like restructuring the PSLF program would help teachers. It's currently 120 payments over 10 years. Biden literally ran on reforming it to 5 years but, again, that change (for some reason) hasn't happened yet.

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I remember when I was in highschool and my teachers were like 40+ and still needed to work a 2nd job or spouse to be working as well. And my highschool was a in the suburbs of Chicago. That was like a decade ago, but Seems not much as changed. 

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Teaching is a profession that is easily automatized. Just record the material and give it to the kids to watch. Problem solved.

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America has never placed value in education. The value has always lied in the appearance of education, e.g., holding a degree.

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2 hours ago, Gorjesspazze9 said:

I remember when I was in highschool and my teachers were like 40+ and still needed to work a 2nd job or spouse to be working as well. And my highschool was a in the suburbs of Chicago. That was like a decade ago, but Seems not much as changed. 

I had a similar experience when I had my first retail job. A teacher got a part time job there because she wasn’t able to pay her bills with her teacher salary :!ohno:

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not surprised. as a gay person i wouldn't want to teach there either

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No surprise. This is what happens when the gop overstep the boundaries and make everything political. 

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I'm not surprised and it will only get worse from here. I know so many people who are leaving the profession, especially since the pandemic.

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Some states aren't even requiring a degree to become a teacher anymore. 

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How long until DeSantis call the Army to step in as substitutes 

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6 minutes ago, Sergi91 said:

How long until DeSantis call the Army to step in as substitutes 

Literally any moment: 

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Thanks to to that buffoon as governor.

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2 hours ago, Jotham said:

I'm not surprised and it will only get worse from here. I know so many people who are leaving the profession, especially since the pandemic.

!!! The pandemic has made teaching difficult for sure.

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This is def calculated from conservatives. Defund schools and teachers to the breaking point. They love nothing more than an uneducated and ignorant GP they can easily exploit and control. If they could they woud cancel schools altogether and make children do unpaid slave labor :gaycat6:

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