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Sure.  I chose to leave a lucrative career 10 years ago to raise my children.  There are countless people who choose mission over money.  If you don't understand the concept, then you must not have ann appreciation for something called sacrifice. [/quote]

As the PP said, nobody goes into teaching for the pay. Including public-school teaching.

We don't tell doctors that they should be in it for the healing, not the money. We don't tell doctors that their interest in compensation shows that they lack vocation and a sense of sacrifice. Why do we think it's ok to tell teachers those things?[/quote]

No we don't tell anyone what they should do when it comes to career choices.  But [b]what I have found, in both the medical field and the education field, is that there are a special group of professionals who truly want to make a difference.

Speaking about education, unfortunately the public schools are lacking that type of mission driven teacher. [/b] Just my observation as a mom of a student that has been in both private and pubic.  I have found that these mission driven educators have so much more to offer students...even beyond typical classroom instruction.

If you want to talk about doctors, I have found the same to be true.  Mission driven typically equals doctors practicing in academic hospitals.  Money driven typically equals private practice physicians who are cash based.  The doctors in hospitals like Hopkins are typically more ethical and skillful than those who have opened private practice and focus on cash flow vs. best interests for patient.[/quote]

Teach for America attracts a "special group of [people] who truly want to make a difference."  <--- NOTE that they are not "professionals" because they are not experienced or certified to teach.  They are not in fact more skilled or have "so much more to offer" students.  On the contrary, they are inexperienced and have questionable effect.  For this reason good school districts don't/won't hire them - they teach in inner-city schools, for the most part.

"Mission-driven" does not equate to "better" or "more effective" and certainly does not equate to more skilled.  It is a romantic notion, for sure, and not supported by any hard evidence at all.[/quote]

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