Central Florida teachers resigning in droves due to pay and lousy working conditions [View all]

https://www.clickorlando.com/news/local/2021/11/15/i-team-teacher-resignations-on-the-rise-in-central-florida-as-educators-struggle-to-make-living-wage/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=snd&utm_content=wkmg6&fbclid=IwAR2wH8lK7cDRfvoWDcS77ZcoVoRq3wZfUdWFNWUWkQeNCoSJdGhgwFl4q6o

As a personal testament I teach in Orange County. I cannot in good conscience recommend someone teach here. The state legislature is anti-public school. The local school board won’t raise pay and OCPS wants to increase insurance costs in a pandemic. The superintendent, Barbara Jenkins, couldn’t be more removed and isolated from the teachers.

The people who sit in the Ronald Blocker Educational Leadership Center in downtown Orlando should all come out to the schools and teach for one week. The working conditions are horrible and the pay sucks!

OCPS is flush with cash and they won’t pay a decent salary to veteran teachers. I have worked for 25 years and I make less than $65K. The superintendent makes $350K.Wow. I don’t expect to make that much but with what I endured I deserve a lot more than I make!

Don’t teach in Florida is the moral of the story!