So, I read this article called Teachers are Quitting. And it talks about how many teachers are quitting their jobs after only 5 to 7 years of working. And it says theyre quitting because,

More and more children are coming without family support. ,Teachers are required to do more and more in a limited period of time. ,Teachers are expected to be experts in all fields,Too little planning time,Too much paperwork,Unreliable assistance from the district,Rarely have a day off,Lack of support,Teachers work weekends without pay,Teachers spend summer vacations taking college classes or preparing for the next school year,Students always need more time and attention.


The reason I think teachers are quitting, is because they work too much. And dont get paid very highly for all of the things that they do. And students are really rude. And criticize everything. It happens all the time. You hear kids talking about how much they hate a teacher, and about how they cant teach. They just can be really mean. Also each year it seems like there's more and more school shootings and stuff like that. And its actually an unsafe job sometimes if you think about it. Because at any time a student can lash out at you. And parents too, some peoples parents at parent-teacher confrences get rather angry and start yelling at the teachers blaming them not their kids for why their kids are doing poorly.

Which i see why they would quit. But it also said recently that in Iowa there has been a declining population of teachers in smaller, rural areas. Especially in the areas of
math ,science,foreign language and special education.

So the state of Iowa passed the "teacher quality law" which raised the saleries of teachers. Making Iowa the 25th position in the nation. But as theyre phasing this law in the next two years, other states are raising their teacher saleries too. Which is why many graduates who want to be teachers leave the state of Iowa.

I think if i did go to college to become a teacher and did all that, that I would leave Iowa too. Because first off, I dont want to stay here for the rest of my life, I want to move to a bigger place. But it would probably be harder to find a teaching job in bigger places.