Brian Lear on

on WNYC and now on this last day of mid-winter recess, President's Week in most of our local public school districts,

we will end today with sort of a temperature check for teachers before you have to go back on Monday.

How are you doing?

What's the hardest part and most rewarding part of teaching in

2024?

33 WNYC. 433. WNY. 212. 433 9692.

Teachers, you know we love to do some call-ins for you specifically

on days and weeks and in the summer when school is out.

So how are you doing?

What's the hardest part and most rewarding part of teaching in 2024?

In 2024-33, W-N-B-N-B-N. in 2024

W-33 WNYC. I realize that's a very general question. You can take it anywhere you want

for the last 17 minutes or so of the show today teachers the lines are yours. A more

specific question might have to do with whether you are considering leaving the teaching profession or recently have.

Specifically, the education news site, Chalkbeat recently reported that more than 8%,

8% of New York City's teachers left the education department

between the fall of 2021 and the fall of 2022.

Now that was at the height of the pandemic or starting to recover from the

pandemic when things were particularly hard for teachers and students, higher than usual, but the teaching profession always has a

retention problem. A discouraging percentage, and I don't have this number in

front of me, but we've done segments on it before, a discouraging percentage of new teachers quit in the first five years.

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