Simple: Pay, chronic student misbehavior, and admins who are n’t very smart
Do you consider entering the teaching field at the K- 12 levels if you are an extremely bright individual with a degree from a renowned university?
Heck, did you contemplate teaching in a public institution if you had a degree from a state college and were only moderately beautiful?
Zid Mancenido, a Harvard professor who spent a whopping three years teaching cultural studies at an Australian high university,” collected the stories of over 100 school seniors or new graduates” as part of his PhD thesis to thoroughly investigate these issues.
Mancenido makes the clear when he says that high performers are largely conditioned by “interactions with family and friends,” through “others ‘ expectations of them and their jobs,” and by “observing the career paths of their role designs and contemporaries,” the majority of which are bad.
” ]I ] f we really want more people — more academic high achievers — to become teachers, we need to work on that social discourse”, Mancenido said. ” We ca n’t just be thinking about the individual’s choice in becoming a teacher. We must consider how somebody views and thinks about training and how that affects how people make decisions.
I could n’t find where Mancenido did his HS teaching Down Under, but apparently they have student discipline issues just like here in the U. S. In fact, they’re pretty bad.
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Earlier this year, Mancenido , ( pictured ) noted advice from the Australian Education Research Organisation on how teachers can deal with misbehavior.
But, as the firm is a government agency, its suggestions look much different from something the U. S. Dept. of Education, NEA or AFT did set out. ( Just scroll to the bottom of the AERO homepage for its “land acknowledgment”, if you catch my drift. )
The teacher’s views on great achievers read much different than AERO’s offerings, sadly — largely beautiful optimism, and wishing how things could get instead of dealing with the present reality.
Let’s face it, we can talk up how fantastic it would be to work as a teacher until we’re blue in the face, but someone with a 1580 SAT score and 3.95 GPA from a top university will have opportunities right away to make a lot more money with a lot less stress than that.
( Not that teacher pay in various states is that bad,  , including the benefits. You’ll hear a lot about pay from the usual suspects, however, but student ( mis ) behavior more and more is the catalyst for teachers leaving the profession. )
Additionally, a very intelligent college graduate is likely to be much brighter than the administrators for whom they will work. These teachers will be horrified by the lack of support for their classroom management, especially when administrators invoke “restorative practices” and other misguided DEI-related measures.
Even the most politically progressive of the new teachers will soon grow weary of chronic classroom chaos and administrators who smirk and shrug their shoulders because modern school district officials are, for lack of a better term,” well- versed” in DEI and CRT.
It really is that simple.
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