Leaving a Profession After It’s Left You: Teachers’ Public Resignation Letters as Resistance Amidst Neoliberalism

Leaving the profession after quitting you: a teacher's official resignation as a resistance in neo-liberalism

Background: More and more research on reasons for teacher resignation has been conducted, but few studies involve analysis of stories directly written by teachers. However as more and more teacher writing and digital media has grown rapidly, resignation letters of a new type of teacher have emerged, many of them "viral" when published online. This research concerns the separation of teachers and literature on neoliberalism and has been studied in the theoretical framework of teacher and teacher resistance.

PURPOSE: In the context of increasing popularity of letters and continuing loss of turnover rate of teachers in an alarming way, this research aims to develop contents and strategies used for official resignation from teachers across the country Search for a new genre by investigating.

Research design: In this research we use qualitative design and use the content analysis method to analyze 23 official resignation letters.

Conclusion: I think that these letters represent a new form of public discourse. This discourse is based on the fact that in the form of public education, how it should be, resistance to the mainstream narrative about the current neoliberalism reforms on teachers and students, Enable to exercise institutional agencies. These other reasons I found through the subject code are related to contextual factors rather than individual factors. And it shows retention limits in an atmosphere that does not support teacher agent. In addition, most of the reasons for separation are explicitly or implicitly related to current neo - liberal education policy. According to their letter, the teacher quit his job because (1) neo-liberal reforms and policies threaten learning conditions and (2) these reforms adversely affect teacher's working conditions and beliefs. Specific neoliberal reforms and policies described in these letters include increased standardization testing and curriculum restrictions, lack of attention to the teacher's social emotional needs, salary and allowance There are decreases, punitive teacher evaluation systems and so on. In addition, as a result of these reforms, teachers have no time, their beliefs do not match the reality of education in today's educational environment, lack of trust and respect for their profession, and lack of working conditions I feel.

This is a story of a promising new teacher who reluctantly left the industry. Too many excellent talent has left the industry or have never entered the industry for the same reason. Please continue reading to see how NEA stops this trend after Herman's story. For the purposes of this article, I admit: I am a good teacher. My evidence for this claim includes student growth data and TPEP score, but this is not very important proof for me. A thank - you note from a student, or a tribute from my colleague and administrator is the only verification I need and I know that the teacher is doing this claim well.

Background: More and more research on reasons for teacher resignation has been conducted, but few studies involve analysis of stories directly written by teachers. However as more and more teacher writing and digital media has grown rapidly, resignation letters of a new type of teacher have emerged, many of them "viral" when published online. This research concerns the separation of teachers and literature on neoliberalism and has been studied in the theoretical framework of teacher and teacher resistance.

Leaving the profession after quitting you: a teacher's official resignation as a resistance in neo-liberalism