1. Why do teachers quit?

2. Why does it matter if teachers quit? It is to the benefit of schools, students, and principals to have a stable staff.

3. How does this affect teachers? • There is an alarming trend for increasingly large numbers of teachers to drop out of teaching and to experience mental health problems. • William Kirk and Glen Walker

4. How does this affect taxpayers? • … replacing workers costs 25% of each person’s salary. Lose 6% of your 1000 teachers making $25,000 per year and you face a replacement bill of $375,000. • Scott M. Norton

5. Why do teachers quit? • Class sizes are too large.

6. another reason teachers quit: • There are too many intrusions on instructional time.

7. a second reason teachers quit: • District administrators give the impression they haven’t taught in twenty years and they just sit in their offices thinking of dumb things for teachers to do.

8. The main reason teachers quit. Poor campus leadership