2. This is not about money. Yes, being underpaid is part of a problem how teachers feel, but no money compensates humiliation and bullying teachers are experiencing.
3. It's not a rant. This EXACTLY how I feel after spending three years at school. I was a math teacher in classes of my kids because a school couldn't find any. Yes, nobody wants to teach any more.
They might not be good at it, but actually good money will draw many candidates
The problem for teachers (and lots of other people in the care sector who struggle to take effective industrial action) isn't that the pay doesn't attract good people.
The problem is it isn't enough to live on, especially given all the training they have to do (plus associated loans) and unpaid work.
The county I live in has similar demographics to Finland. We get 350 applications for every open teacher position.
Not very accurate to compare Finland’s homogenous population of 5 million to the United State’s incredibly diverse population of 330 million.
And the educational record for immigrants in Finland is not great:
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/1467598022000008...
And again, Finland's entire population is substantially less than half the population of the US state of Pennsylvania.
The article is here https://www.hs.fi/kotimaa/art-2000009001096.html : it is in Finnish, but Google Translate manages to make sense of it in English.
The social standing and respect teachers have varies a lot in different social spheres, but it is certainly not as high and universal as doctors.
Schools in Finland are starting to have problems trying to recruit enough teachers:
You sure? on the list they get paid near the worst in the OECD.
https://www.cnbc.com/2021/10/05/heres-how-much-teachers-arou...
The point was that you can't compensate all this bullshit with money. OK, you might find some people who can do anything for money, but not so many you can fill all positions in public education system.
If the kid was misbehaving in class or getting bad grades -> was properly managed by parents.
Right now parents are delusional about their kids. Blame teachers if something is wrong with the kid.
Cant understand that most likely they are the issue why the kid is behaving this way.
Dont want to take the blame.
At least those are my obesrvations - my mom was a teacher with 40 years of experience and national wide fame.
What if I did that, and then just refused to take any of that shit? Are teachers rare enough that I wouldn't get fired?
If you get blamed a lot you can also get a court case.
You are on a lose-lose position as a teacher.
I wish I could upvote this x10000. This is the exact problem.