In a survey conducted by Chalkboard Review, it was revealed that a vast majority of midwestern teachers that are leaving their jobs are leaving because of pay, students’ behavior or progressive politics in the classroom rather than reasons like Covid-19 or school shootings, amongst other reasons.
The survey issued three preliminary questions and four main questions, with 615 K-12 teachers in the midwestern states of Iowa, Missouri, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Ohio responding.
Of those that included salary as a main reason for leaving their position, 319 teachers listed student behavior as their biggest reason to resign from their position, followed by 138 who said progressive political activity, and 134 who said that salary is insufficient.
Of those that said pay was a secondary reason though, 447 teachers said that student behavior was their primary reason for leaving, while 128 said their reason was progressive political activity. Just nine teachers listed parental harassment as their reason for leaving.
356 of the 615 teachers that took the survey were a member of a teachers union in the previous year.
In response to the question of whether the teacher would return to the classroom if their administration dealt with the main issues stated in the survey, just 21 percent of respondents said they would return to the classroom is said issues were dealt with. A vast majority of teachers though, over 300, said that they would not return to the classroom.
This survey comes hot on the heels of one commissioned by the American Federation of Teachers which found that voters in key battleground states are more likely to side with Republicans than Democrats in regards to who they trust more on education.
The survey revealed that Republicans have a slight majority of voters’ confidence in their ability to deal with education issues over Democrats, 39 to 38 percent, respectively.
The survey also found that a majority of voters, 59 percent, either somewhat or strongly disapproved of President Joe Biden’s job performance.
Speaking in regards to the ATF survey, Corey DeAngelis, senior fellow at American Federation for Children, told Fox News that “This was just an epic self-own for Randi Weingarten, her teachers’ union’s own poll tearing the narrative into shreds.”
“It found that Republicans were winning on the issue of education and that Democrats were more likely to be viewed as over-politicizing the classroom, which is the complete opposite of what Randi Weingarten has been tweeting every single day.”
“She’s been blaming the Republicans, but her own poll found that the Democrats, if anything, were more responsible for over-politicizing the classroom. And since then, there’s been another poll that just came out from the Democrats for education reform, also finding Republicans up on the issue of education by about three percentage points overall and by nine percentage points with parents.
“The GOP has a perfect opportunity here to become the parents’ party. Hopefully, they don’t screw it up and can learn from Glenn Youngkin in Virginia. He showed them the way to lean into parental rights. It’s a political winner. And look, if you want a red wave, this is the way to do it,” he said.
This article was originally published at The Post Millennial.
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Look at the behavior of the adults both inside and outside of the educational system that they have to emulate.
Just look at what Democrat Party is teaching, endorsing and supporting.
To fully advance the Lying, Treasonous, Demonic, Socialist Democrat Party’s destructive beliefs and agendas is to divide our citizens with hate and promote – racism, open borders, radical feminism, abortion-on-demand, the LGBTQ lifestyle, unfettered sexual identity, transgender, same sex marriage, child indoctrination into sexual confusion and perversions, the pagan Liberal left Democrats must do away with GOD, our Constitution, common sense, morality, Christian values and free religious exercise altogether.
Under the Disguise of “anti-discrimination.”
I see that the majority of Democrat party supporters are self-serving, self-worshipping disciples of Satan.
John 8:42-44 – Jesus said to them, “If God were your Father, you would love me, for I have come here from God. I have not come on my own; God sent me. 43 Why is my language not clear to you? Because you are unable to hear what I say. 44 You belong to your father, the devil, and you want to carry out your father’s desires. He was a murderer from the beginning, not holding to the truth, for there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks his native language, for he is a liar and the father of lies.
When schools were FORCED to stop disciplining kids, i said THIS WOULD BE PART of the end result. KIDS Assaulting teachers and teachers LEAVING because of it.
The kids are emulating the parents, school officials and administrators. Very simple, it starts at home! Respect and accountability.
AND when time after time, they see their ‘fellows’ GETTING AWAY with crime after crime, all because of leftist DA’s and judges, RELEASING THEM over and over again, WHY would they ever GAIN any respect or accountability?
Give em a cell phone, a trophy, and tell them how wonderful they are. I mean the teachers. lol
This is why we are in trouble the many tails of dogs wagging the dog.
Women also used to go into teaching to find well-educated husbands. Problem is today there are no men in the teachjing industry and nor are the few that are left any longer very well educated.
And what biological men there are, are probably too Emasculated, by all the leftism running rampant through the teachers unions, to be any good to anyone.
Indulgent parents began this slide of disrespect of authority a long time ago when they began taking the student’s side against teachers for administering discipline on their precious little snots. Of course when I was in school parents knew teachers because everybody lived in the community and would meet at the store, church, the park etc. so what the teacher said would be repeated at home. “You may have gotten away with that at school and sent to the principal’s office but here at home….!”