So how do we get the best and brightest to go into teaching? (It's not as if schools of education are turning down students with high scores in favor of those lower?
We need to pay them as much as they can earn in other fields. We need to vote yes on school bonds that fund building maintenance and repair. We need to support the great teachers that we do encounter. We need to show up in the classroom and be involved in our children's educations. We need to not blame teachers for everything that is lacking in our children's educations.
My parents were both teachers. I don't know if they ever took an SAT, and I don't know their IQs. I suspect they were both at least HG. Both had Master's degrees+. My dad went into teaching because he loved loved loved teaching. My mom went into teaching because she is an extrovert, and at the time she graduated from college women had few career options open to them in the sciences other than research. My mom who chose teaching as a second career went on to love teaching and was a great teacher - she was runner-up for teacher of the year in her state once.
Both of my parents were totally of the same opinion whenI went to college - follow your heart but whatever you do, pick a direction that woud lead to a career where you out earn a decent living and also have some respect. They highly discouraged us from choosing teaching.
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