Teachers are picking up slack for absent colleagues. They’re covering for unfilled positions. And 55% of them say they will leave teaching sooner than they had originally planned, according to a poll of its members by the nation’s largest teachers union.
The National Education Association poll, conducted in January, helps quantify the stress being placed on educators right now — and found the number who say they’ll leave the profession sooner has risen significantly since August. Among the NEA poll’s other findings are that:
- 90% of its members say that feeling burned out is a serious problem.
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