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[quote=Anonymous]Lots of reasons, many of which have been mentioned so I won’t repeat, but also I think that teaching has really become devalued as a profession especially as salaries have stagnated. As in, teachers could make $40k 30 years ago and that's an attractive field to go into.  You're going to attract a lot of people.  But teachers making $40k now, with masters requirements and recertification requirements every five years and paying for your own fingerprinting and a total lack of job security and teaching is not an attractive field anymore.

With a decline in highly qualified people seeking teaching positions you get organizations like TFA (1989) spitting out Ivy grads looking to boost a resume who work as a teacher for two years before moving. on.  It takes about 3  years to become a good teacher.  And these people are leaving after 2, causing more harm than they are helping.  You've got a rotating door of poor to mediocre teachers with terrible classroom management working in some of the neediest schools in the country and you think you're going to get parent and community support when you can't even hire real, certified teachers to educate the children?  For your $40k, in your city where few teachers can actually afford to live?

I wonder if they broke down the educational outcomes of students in America by economic class if we'd see a different story - if the students who come from middle or upper class homes in the suburbs (where they don't have absurdly low teacher salaries and TFA teachers) would score better than children from 1978-1987.  How would the kids of Westchester compare to NYC?  How would New Canaan compare to Bridgeport? Etc.[/quote]

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