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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I have a friend looking for a teaching job in MA and she’s disheartened by all the rejection emails. I was there a few years ago and ended up in VA. There still isn’t a dramatic shortage of applicants in the Boston area. There are more vacancies than usual but some people wait years to teach here and either sub, work as a para, or relocate until they get the chance. I feel like other states should take a look and model off how things work for teachers in MA. I hear the pension is bad but in most districts they get a lot of resources, tenure after third year, decent pay raises every year. I just don’t understand why the states that always have dramatic shortages don’t just model off the states where it can be competitive to land a teaching job like MA, NY, PA, NJ. You’ll hear them all complain about a shortage but usually it’s actually a sub and para shortage unless it’s a really rough and low paying district where people just go for experience.

Schools aren’t perfect here by any means. But the profession itself is more attractive here than most other states. Some teachers are making six figures by year 15 for 180 days of work. If you start at 22, 15 years to six figures isn’t that bad despite the high COL. [/quote]

Massachusetts model cannot be copied without Massachusetts demographics and ses level

There are virtually no black people in mass

And the poor whites, while drunk Tom Brady simps, aren’t nearly as dysfunctional as other states poor whites.

And Massachusetts Hispanics aren’t as dysfunctional as Hispanics in other states.

Aren’t there shortages in pa and ny? [/quote]

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