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Originally Posted by Layla_Z  Once you have signed a contract with a district you are stuck there for the school year, unless you want to pay a penalty. The district can assign you to any place they want. You may have signed on thinking you'd be teaching 3rd grade but there is a little clause in the contract that states they can move you.
Being a teacher I take great offense at the bottom 30% comment. I wasn't in that group and I have great respect for the intelligence of the teachers I work with. I do agree that teachers have a difficult job and that they have very little control over many aspects of that job. In many cases teachers, especially new ones, are put into no win situations. That's why the average new teacher only teaches for 5 years. |
The actual statistic is: Half of all new teachers will quit before the end of thier 5th year of teaching.
Quite different from being "average." But I'm sure we all understood your point that many teachers do not stay in this career. I'm just being nit picky.
Most often what I hear nowadays is that CA is not lacking qualified teachers, as thier are many more people with credentials than there are actuals teachers. I think it's something like a 5:1 ratio (I'll probably have to look it up if you want that actual numbers). There are plenty of qualified teachers in our state, it's just not a lot of them can make that sacrifice.
Regarding assignments, one of my collegues was a theatre major and had a degree in English. He had planned to become a drama teacher of course. But to his dismay, and because he held an English degree, he was qualified to teach ESL and he had no choice but to accept the assignment because he signed the yearly contract.