Title: Teachers Are Seeing Their Colleagues Leave at an Alarming Rate
Headings: Teachers are seeing their colleagues leave the profession at an alarming rate, and this might be why
Teachers are seeing their colleagues leave the profession at an alarming rate, and this might be why
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Teacher burnout is real
Teachers can get better pay elsewhere
Stress is pressuring teachers out of the profession
It's difficult to get substantial raises, even when performance is stellar
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Content: New Mexico, $47,122; Colorado, $51,808; Kansas, $49,422; Missouri, $48,618; and Arkansas, $48,304. Jesi Barnes, a teacher in Arkansas, said some teachers who live near state border lines will simply drive to another state to work for better pay. But the better pay doesn't always mean livable wages. Allyson Lytton, a teacher from Maine, got an $8,000 raise in her salary when she moved to the state from South Carolina four years ago. Still, her salary was so low she depended on government benefits to provide formula for her newborn son. Stress is pressuring teachers out of the profession
Lytton is a third-generation educator, and watched her mother teach for 42 years.