Why Are Teachers Leaving the Teaching Profession?
I was a teacher for 15 years. I taught in America’s public school system for 10 and for a private non-profit college for 5. I love teachers. I respect teachers. What teachers do is noble. I loved teaching, I loved my students, I loved the classroom and the exchange of ideas and the growth and the development and the progress I witnessed. I was voted favorite teacher year after year. I always scored high marks on my teacher evaluations. But today, despite all these wonderful things, I no longer teach in a school. Like so many other great teachers, I left the system to pursue other passions. For anyone who has not been inside a school since they themselves were students, it is very eye-opening to spend a day with a student. While some things have changed, like technology and the use of white boards vs. chalk boards, the way school works is pretty close to the way it has worked since the turn of the 20th century. The system built on a factory model of mass production. The system that dict
