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[quote=Anonymous]Years ago, women went into teaching because it was one of the professions where women were welcome. Even so, prior to 1970, there was almost never a surplus of teachers. Why? Not so many people went to college. Around 1970, teacher surpluses started becoming quite common and continued to be so. However, with greater understanding and affirmative action for women, more and more women started going into other fields than education or nursing. Women are now going into business, engineering, computer science, etc.etc. This results in a shortage of teachers. Also, back in the day, most people continued to teach until retirement. Today, many school systems (FCPS among them) offered early retirement a few years ago. Lots of teachers left way before what is considered retirement age. Now, we have a shortage. It will adjust.[/quote]
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