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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]In my view, “majoring in elementary education” has to become a more valid degree. Now it’s too often a way to skate through college for young women who are there to have a good time. This does not appeal generally to the brightest students. [/quote]
Besides the pay, the college experience/return on investment has to be so much better than it is.

Let's pretend you are a normal, UMC DC family with a high stat child. If they have their heart set on being an elementary school teacher. Which college would make the most sense to get their degree - Salisbury State or an elite SLAC/Ivy?

Unless your family is super wealthy, it doesn't make sense to pay for an expensive private school for a degree in elementary education so a school like Salisbury it is.

But your child is a high stat child. Do you think Salisbury college will have the same amount of high stats kids? Would your kid want to go to such a school when she most likely could have gotten into a much better school? The young girls who chose these Elementary Ed degrees at places like Salisbury aren't typically high flyers. Is that where high stat kids really want to go to college?

If you want to attract high stat/top students to go into teaching, their elementary education degree needs to be subsidized. It doesn't make sense to pay nearly $80,000 a year for a job that offers so little in return. Top students don't want to "lower" themselves by going to places like Salisbury for college.

Aside from the financial aspect, teaching isn't a flexible job. Maybe the top students don't want to enter a job that isn't flexible. They see their parents having flexibility and freedom with working from home. They see their parents can easily leave work in the middle of the day to go to a dr.'s appt/pick their kid up from school. Teacher's schedules are so much more regimented. Do top students want that for themselves?

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At my MD school, all of our student teachers go to Towson. Many of them are from wealthy families and many were excellent students in HS. What makes a good ES teacher is not being the smartest in the room. ES teaching in particular requires a different skill set. It requires high levels of patience. Patience with students, parents, admin, the system. After that, ES teachers have a million balls in the air at the same time so they need to excel at multitasking. They need to be able to focus in a HIGHLY distracting environment too. Some days, that is my downfall. I'm an introvert and I am exhausted by school many days. If teachers can handle all of these, then they need to be able to teach. Some days, you don't even get to that part. We've had the smartest people in the room come in to volunteer and they leave exhausted and relieved that teaching is not their job. [/quote]

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