TEACHER

BURNOUT
Between 40 and 50 percent of teachers will
leave the classroom within their first 5 years.

Over
40%
of teachers in K-12
education report feeling
burnt out at their job

Support Mental Health

Many educators feel that 91% of teachers report that

they are not supported by their job has negatively
their administrators and affected their mental health
coworkers. They often feel 9%
as if they are alone becuase
their successes are not seen
by authority figures.

91%

Respect
Teachers feel that they are not respected.
Some people don’t see educators as
professionals or experts in their fields
because everyone believes that they are
experts in education because they went
through the schooling system. In addition,
with an increase in the use of technology,
there are more ways for students to become
distracted and unfocused in a classroom

Repetition
Many teachers find their jobs
to become repetitive,
especially as they teach
subject matter year after year.
The job has the potential to
become a mindless routine.

Pay and Funding

Teacher salaries continue to be way

behind where they should be. Funding
for education programs also is often
inadequate and teachers often have to
use their own money to purchase
classroom items.