It's So Hard To Say Goodbye...
It’s So Hard To Say Goodbye… Most teachers love their jobs. Most teachers are very good at their jobs. As in any profession, there are exceptions, but what’s scary about the education profession now is not that there are enormous numbers of bad teachers (there aren’t) but that there are enormous numbers of good teachers that have recently retired or soon will. Some absolutely can’t wait to get out that schoolhouse door for the last time, and their replacements are not exactly flooding into teacher prep courses. Add that to the 44% of new teachers that never make it past their first five years and we have a full blown teacher shortage. Here are the numbers from the Georgia TRS: Retirees in Georgia Yrs. Exp 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 10-15 975 1010 1008 1195 1455 1532 1721 1744 1659 1695 16-20 704 720 701 786 954