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A survey on the Joblist platform, specialized in job search, explored the reasons why a large number of teachers are resigning to their jobs in the midst of the so-called ‘Great Renunciation’ and one of the great conclusions is that many of them feel unhappy and underestimated.
According to the data obtained, the 26% of educators who quit their last job mentioned low pay or lack of benefits as one of the reasons they left.
Joblist also discovered that, While fewer than 1 in 4 workers across all industries who recently quit reported feeling angry with their employers, teachers were particularly “full of anger”.
Around the 30% of teachers felt “angry” or “very angry” with their employers when they decided to resign, according to the results of the survey.
In the final data, educators were only surpassed by hospitality workers, with the 34%.
Pandemic, other cause for discomfort
The pandemic was also listed as one of the main reasons why teachers are leaving their jobs.
Of the teachers in the survey of Joblist who recently resigned, on 40% said that the pandemic influenced their decision to leave.
That is the highest portion of any category of workers that points to the pandemic as a reason to quit.
It is even higher than what is said by health workers, of 26%, and significantly higher than average of all industries, approximately 04%.
Furthermore, another survey conducted in January by the National Education Association (NEA), a teachers’ union with more than 3 million members, found that the 54% of educators said they plan to leave the profession earlier than originally planned due to the pandemic. Last August, that number was 37%.
“After persevering through the most difficult school years in living memory, educators Americans are exhausted and increasingly exhausted,” NEA President Becky Pringle said in a statement.
An analysis of the Wall Street Journal of data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) found that, as of November, the number of people who left work in educational services, in which they are including teachers, had grown faster than any other industry.
According to the BLS, 182,000 people quit their jobs in public education in February is year, compared to 138,000 of the same month in 2021.
Teachers who left their jobs say the pandemic played a determining role in his decision to resign.
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