Have you ever experienced a “freak out”? Where teacher leaves and never comes back? (Or have YOU been that teacher?) could be the end of the day... or MIDDLE! Haven’t experienced one in a LONG time.

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I know of a very good teacher who suddenly resigned mid-year. Admin had bullied her to the point where she couldn’t take the pressure anymore.

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Well, that sort of counts. APPROVED!

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We had a teacher come in middle of year. She was replacing a long term sub in a class that a master teacher gave up on. (No blame, I had some of the same kids, just not in the same class.) She was delicate to begin with. She’d just got her certification from being an AI. We checked in on her every day, multiple times a day. Little clues we missed made sense in hindsight: she loved being an AI, she liked working with the sped kids, she felt pressured to get certified, she wasn’t sure she made the right move, etc. these were statements she made in conversation that didn’t seem a big deal. She never showed us she was cracking until she did. She hospitalized herself in the psych ward for 2 weeks. No calling of sub and no telling anyone where she was. Just flat out disappeared on us. Her cousin, also on staff, had no clue where she was either. We found out later she had a complete breakdown and attempted suicide (something she had done several times years before).
Our whole department felt that loss and the blame. We knew the kind of class she was in. Nightmare class from the 9th level of HELL. Our MASTER teacher, our go to person in the department, even she could not control this class.
It had a series of subs for the rest of the year; word got round and subs would not take that particular class. Some of our regular subs stopped our school because they didn’t want to take that class, even for a day. It took several years to get them back.

I had many of those students, granted in smaller doses, but they were awful students and frankly awful people. Kids or not, they were just monster human beings. A few of them thought it ‘funny’ that they drove her over the edge to attempted suicide (f* jerks!)

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I do believe I have their siblings . 😣🤒

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Have had 7 leave just this year. When new admin does not support or value teachers,that's what happens.When there is no trust for admin the results is teachers exit.One came for a day and quit. At this point admin is hiring bodies not qualified teachers. The results will speak for themselves.

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When I taught in Houston, there was a new teacher who was really struggling. He was new to our district and new to teaching. His class was in a temporary building so it was like a thousand degrees in there everyday. Plus our classes were 30+ kids. I would check on him to see if he was okay during the day because he always looked frazzled. He would always tel me that he was fine but there was one afternoon where he had a total meltdown and ran from his class, screaming. He was never heard from again. True story.

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A colleague of mine had a sub who texted him “I quit” with 90 mins left in the school day. We were on campus doing PD, so he went up there, but she was already gone.

Saw it recently, but very quiet and the teacher was reassigned as an aide. She still left.
I got a job once when a teacher just didn’t show up one day. When they called his house, his wife said, “He’s never coming back!” and slammed the phone down. Turns out he basically had a breakdown and couldn’t handle the kids. I entered in January and absolutely loved the kids, and had a great rest of the year. His breakdown was my big break!

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Yes. I co-taught with a teacher who met me at the door and chided me for being two minutes late to class. I had to pee and change my books for the class and my room was on the other hall. After she finished ranting, we went inside and she went back to her desk, shut off her computer, gathered her things and walked out and went home. I was shocked, as were the students. I just went to the board and started reviewing the homework from the night before. The next day she apologized and said she was going through some stressful stuff, but it changed our relationship after that.

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Wow. I’m sorry about that. Both for you and her...

To be honest, sometimes I feel like being that teacher. It's my first year and admin expected me to come with magic in classroom management and content. Then they switched my program all together and I feel I can't even say boo without an admin constantly watching me and questioning what I do, all because my kids aren't "making gains".

Sometimes, it's not the kids; more often, it's a micromanaging principal/AP.

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I don't if this counts, but I once had a "co-teacher/mentor" who already resigned and month before school was out he walked in my room and said "Well I have enough sick days built up, I'm out of here! Have a good life." I thought it was insane, our job is to be there from start to finish, doesn't matter if you plan on leaving or not and how many sick days you got.

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When you get to the end of your long career path, you will understand this on a completely different level.

i know it happens, but i never witnessed it

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Never seen it happen

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No, but seen teachers get asked to leave in the middle of the year, as well as, an administrator.

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The first-year teacher in the classroom next to mine quit in September, another teacher quit a couple weeks after that, another teacher quit to be with their husband, one teacher gave same-day notice that they were moving to an entirely different state after dealing with depression for months, and one teacher was moved to another school after his position was eliminated and he had one day notice.
Our district has an 800 teacher shortage. I hear about similar cases from from other teachers in other schools.
The causes are known.
Sometimes, when I take my glasses off because I am blind with rage, my students will tell me, "you look like _____ before they quit."

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Minne 2- that’s the same in many districts... but where they say “shortage” ask, are they paying enough to pull significant numbers of applicants? Probably not.

Nah!

This school year we have had about 6 teachers break contract and leave. Some gave notice and some just flat out didn’t come back. We find out through random emails or rumors, but admin doesn’t seem the least bit concerned about finding out why so many teachers are leaving.

That’s some red flag there 😬😟😬

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Here’s a sad story. Back in the very early 1990s, my wife worked for an elementary school in the Houston Texas area. The principal was horrible. So bad, that one teacher actually committed suicide during the school year and in her suicide note blamed the principal.

Another Example was when I first started in my current district. One of my coworkers all of a sudden didn’t show up to school anymore. This was in January. Her husband was calling the school looking for her. She had dropped everything and move to Florida.

That is so sad.

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