Where Have All The Teachers Gone?

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theatlantic.com/amp/article/604702/

This article is somewhat interesting. However, what I find most compelling is a segment of the introductory comments, > In 1988, a teacher most commonly had 15 years of experience. Less than three decades later, that number had fallen to just three years leading a classroom. <

This is a serious problem. One of the finest benefits of the former situation was that young teachers were surrounded by colleagues who were able to help and support them in learning to be better teachers. When you have a staff composed almost entirely of the inexperienced, you lose that resource. The next question, the most important question, is why aren’t there more experienced teachers in our education system?

My own belief is it the American educational system is driving them out.   Good teachers want to teach, not train children to take standardized tests. Yet training children to take standardized tests is exactly what teachers are required to do under today’s structures created by educational “experts” who have never actually taught a child in the classroom, much less a classroom full of children.

Strong on credentials, mighty in theory, appallingly ignorant of reality, and firmly grounded in political ideology; these individuals have guaranteed that a good education is a distant memory in the United States.