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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]How do you expect younger teachers to get experience? Experienced teachers don't just pop out of the ground. [/quote]

Of course the new teacher fresh out of college needs a job. But the school shouldn't be filled to the hilt with new teachers and just one or two veterans in the mix.

I've seen new teachers (yes, some from TFA or similar programs) do amazing jobs with difficult populations, but they just didn't have the same level of expertise and were not able to move student achievement (test scores) in the way veterans did. Of course, it was just the 1st year in the classroom so I wasn't expecting miracles. A year or two later, most of those teachers are gone--most off to professional schools. The classroom was just a pit stop on the way to something better. But I truly appreciate and respect the job they did while they were in the classroom for that one year (no exaggeration on the one year). Still it would be great to see people who are COMMITTED to education in the classrooms. Why do disadvantaged students always have to be the guinea pigs? [/quote]

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