Teachers, Parents, and the Economy….Important Results from the Metlife Survey of the American Teacher
In this year’s Metlife Survey of the American Teacher there’s good news and there’s bad news.
In the good news column, parent engagement has increased in the past 25 years, though it still remains a challenge for many schools. The bad news exposed that teachers are less satisfied with their careers and that in the past two years there has been a significant decline in teachers’ satisfaction with their profession. In one of the most dramatic findings of the report, teacher satisfaction has decreased by 15 points since the survey measured job satisfaction two years ago. It has now reached the lowest level of job satisfaction seen in the survey series in more than two decades.
This troubling news should be a wakeup call for all of us, especially since in addition to the low morale problem, the number of teachers who indicated they will be leaving their jobs for both retirement and other fields has markedly
