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Outgoing Allegany County School Board member Deb Frank says its an alarming statistic

December 19th, 2022 by WCBC Radio

According to the Maryland State Department of Education, in the last academic school year, 9.1% of Maryland teachers left the profession altogether. Outgoing Allegany County School Board member Deb Frank says its an alarming statistic. Although teachers work through long hours for relatively low pay, administrative red tape and summers spent preparing for the upcoming school year- in recent years they have become targets of frequent scrutiny and growing criticism from the public. Now, after two years of hybrid learning, social distancing, masked-up teaching and the associated anxiety, many Maryland teachers are burned out and are leaving, either to early retirement or in search of a new career. The teacher exodus, according to a survey this year of 1,324 teachers, appears to be the result of “a deep disillusionment of many teachers who feel overworked, underpaid, and under-appreciated.” Ms Frank says she has spent her four years in office observing and communicating with teachers system wide- and the criticisms are without merit…