For some teachers, COVID-19 proved a rallying cry that ensured their return to the classroom.
Jan Robertson has taught"pretty much everything" over the past 40 years: outdoor education, science, and teacher coaching.
But while that survey might reflect teachers' feelings over the summer, a review of the retirement and staffing figures collected in some of the first states to resume classes this year suggests that fears of a mass exodus of retiring teachers may have been overblown. Irene Bordes was one of them. After teaching for 24 years at an elementary school in a New York suburb, she decided in August to retire. Her two sons had urged their 66-year-old mother to not risk getting sick.. “So many things are up in the air and the plans are changing day to day. It came down to a family decision.”Educators’ worries about being exposed to the virus in the classroom aren’t theoretical.
Their superintendent recently informed her district that due to Milwaukee’s rising coronavirus infection rate, virtual teaching will take place indefinitely. Hernandez can't retire until she's 55, so"retirement is not an option for me at this point," but she said that there was no doubt in her mind to return to school this year.Dedicated teachers are in great demand. The August report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics shows 7.
For 39 years, Anne Ham taught language arts and drama in Kansas, Illinois and Oklahoma, where after COVID-19 hit, she taught the last nine weeks of classes in the spring semester virtually in Norman Public Schools.
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