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I have three friends who were teachers for a decade who changed careers within the last 5 years. One moved into banking, another became a tatoo artist, and the

I have three friends who were teachers for a decade who changed careers within the last 5 years. One moved into banking, another became a tatoo artist, and the last teaches dancing privately. They all quit because of low pay and long hours, litigious threats from parents, and being faced with constant accusations of being abusive/racist/whatever-other-random-excuse students could come up with to deny their own failures and behaviour. The schools always side with the accusers by default. This is in South Africa, not the USA, so it seems to be a world-wide phenomena - at least maybe in the English speaking world.

barry-cotter 8y ago
Teaching has always had quite a high outflow. More than half of people with qualified teacher status in England and Wales don’t teach. Most people can’t do it. Of those who can plenty decide they can’t do it any more. Long holidays and a fantastic pension aren’t worth a job you hate. I doubt South Africa is worse than the U.K. The Guardian’s Secret Teacher is awful. https://www.theguardian.com/profile/the-secret-teacher https://www.theguardian.com/profile/the-secret-teacher