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[quote=Anonymous]Boston has poverty. Lots of homeless kids and kids living in the projects. Kids in gangs. You also make six figures after only a couple years there, and it’s kind of necessary bc it’s a high cost of living area. Doesn’t it take like over 20 years to hit six figures in Fairfax County? COL might be a bit better in NoVA but it’s pretty similar to Boston area.

Boston Public Schools is competitive to get a teaching job. If you aren’t “good enough” the district can non-renew you and you need to teach elsewhere. If you make it three years in BPS you get tenure so you’ll probably stay unless something gets that bad that the pay and security and benefits are no longer worth it. I’m sure there’s people who quit out of choice bc it’s stressful or they move, but there’s always people from all over the place (even outside MA) wanting to teach there bc they want to teach in MA for the unions that get decent benefits & pay. Even if it’s challenging, to make six figures after a couple years with all that time off is pretty nice.

So I think if other places offered more job security, better pay increases that never freeze, etc. teachers might be more inclined to stay even when they’re dealing with high needs students. BPS prefers teachers certified in they’d subject plus special Ed and/or ESL. They also prefer bilingual teachers. They won’t always find that, but considering most of their job posts prefer these qualifications you can assume a majority of the student body has an IEP and/or is not a native English speaker.

If Boston can be a competitive place to land a teaching job despite having a lot of high needs students who might be in gangs, may not speak any English, have special needs, are homeless, etc. I think other places with high needs populations could make changes to make teaching there more attractive so people are actually wanting to relocate to teach there and are more likely to be retained too.[/quote]

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