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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]-Make teaching fun again. Roll back bureaucracy and unnecessary tests.
-Principals need to address classroom disciplinary issues. That's the #1 complaint I hear from friends who are teachers. When issues arise, principals don't have their back. One had her classroom evacuated multiple times a week due to the same student.

[b]I think you'll get responses about pay, but I don't even think that's the biggest issue. [/b][/quote]

Nor is it the smallest issue.  It certainly is a REAL issue.

One way that top students can be steered into public school teaching is through Teach for America.  It's how one of my kids -- an honors graduate of a top 10 liberal arts college -- entered the field.  While many TFA alums move on to other things, some don't -- including my kid and several others who I know well.

In the case of my kid, though, she was able to stay in the profession notwithstanding the relatively low pay because (1) she had no student loans and (2) her husband -- a graduate of the same college but with a less impressive college transcript -- went into private industry and almost immediately began making more money than her.

Teaching simply doesn't pay enough to be the primary source of income for most American families, and for as long as that is the case it's not going to attract top college graduates.[/quote]

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