Why do teachers quit?

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Why do teachers quit?
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Why does it matter if teachers quit?

• It is to the benefit of schools, students, and
  principals to have a stable staff.

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How does this affect teachers?

• There is an alarming trend for increasingly large
  numbers of teachers to drop out of teaching and
  to experience mental health problems.
• William Kirk and Glen Walker

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How does this affect taxpayers?

• replacing workers costs 25 of each persons
  salary. Lose 6 of your 1000 teachers making
  25,000 per year and you face a replacement bill
  of 375,000.
• Scott M. Norton

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Why do teachers quit?

• Class sizes are too large.

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another reason teachers quit

• There are too many intrusions on
  instructional time.

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a second reason teachers quit

• District administrators give the impression they
  havent taught in twenty years and they just sit
  in their offices thinking of dumb things for
  teachers to do.

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The main reason teachers quit.

• Poor campus leadership