Spoken Stories: A Narrative Inquiry on the Public School Teachers’ Early Retirement Decision

of our public school system need to be identified and promptly rectified. This includes, above all, creating a work environment that will continue to draw the bright committed new teachers we need- and will keep them enthusiastic, energetic, and productive throughout their career. This is a call among other things, to examine the patterns of early retirement of public school teachers, assess factors that may be pushing public secondary school teachers out of classrooms and scrutinize policies governing early retirement of public school teachers generally and early retirement of public secondary school teachers in particular. It is this context that the study is conducted. This study aims to gain a greater understanding on the early retirement decision of the public school teachers in Carrascal National High School. theory of is a social comparison theory which on of fairness relative on relative others. The two Abstract: The study conducted assesses the perception of the public school teachers on early retirement decision. This study focused on three aspects of retirement which are the respondents concept of retirable age, their fears upon retirement and the psychological impacts early retirement decision has upon their well-being particularly in family relations, social relations and economic status. A narrative inquiry paradigm is used in this study. The study revealed that employees concept of retirable age is 55 years old. The most feared after retirement is the reduction in the cost of living allowance. The family and the respondents’ relationship with them contribute to the success in the retirement adjustment and the ability of the respondents to maintain good relationship with former co-workers creates a satisfactory retirement life.