Over months of reporting, roughly 20 Black male teachers and former teachers at public, charter and private PK-12 schools across the country have told ABC News that they feel underappreciated and overstretched - with their numbers in the profession already small and appearing to dwindle, according to experts - as part of a larger teacher shortage in more than 40 states, as well as Washington, D.C., and the U.S. "As a man, I didn't want to call home and be like, 'Hey - I can't take care of my bills." Moss, now a professor at American University and an NAACP education fellow, told ABC News. Despite his early success, he said he was financially struggling to live on his salary, which started at $32,000, and took out short-term, high-interest "payday" loans to make ends meet. Phelton Moss won back-to-back teacher of the year awards about a decade ago in Greenwood, Mississippi.
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