My daughter is a speech language pathologist at a local Bowling Green middle school, so I get to hear about her opinions on her working environment. She has been at this for 19 years, loves working with kids with speech disabilities, and will likely retire after her 20 years of service is up, and hang out her shingle and work from her home office with the same children she would have been working with in the school system.
Her comments always center around "Dad, the system is broken". She is not as conservative as I am, so I tread lightly when having conversations involving politics, and some social issues, but we can still have a reasoned, productive discussion about many things and her work environment is one 0f those things. It is not her fault, as she was educated in the liberal university environment for 5 years and while I could blunt some of the indoctrination I could not successfully combat all of it as I do not have all the educational paperwork hanging on my wall that my competitors have.
Anyway if the public school system was being run like it was 20 years ago, she would work there until she was 65, but that is far from the case. A few comments from a teacher follow........
School districts across the country have been struggling with an exodus of teachers since the pandemic, as teachers reported burnout stemming from the uncertainty during lockdowns.
A survey conducted by the National Center for Education Statistics found that 44% of public schools report having full- or part-time teacher vacancies.
The survey, published in March 2022, also found that 61% of public schools reporting at least one vacancy cited the pandemic for the open jobs. Most of the vacancies were due to resignations, not retirement, the survey reported.
Rhode Island high school teacher Ramona Bessinger raised concern over teachers being forced to "adhere to political ideologies in the classroom."
"Teachers are being forced to adhere to these political ideologies in the classroom and contrary to what their personal beliefs are and contrary to what is even right or true. For example, this anti-American content that we're seeing, this anti-girl, anti-boy content that we're seeing."
Bessinger said teachers are being left with a "moral decision" to make and many are opting out.
"Sometimes they just elect to leave the profession or they're pushed out, quite frankly, harassed and bullied."
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