>>462515 (last bread)

>Few top students go into teaching

Older, successful, corporate types who go into teaching after they retire and teach advanced classes can make excellent teachers.

Their salary isn't that important because of retirement money, so stepping in on the lower end of the pay scale isn't too much of a problem.

Smart kids know what their career path was and realize they don't need a teaching major.

These types of teachers have a hard time in the general classes (no discipline/no administrative support/not worth the hassle) though.

Most young teachers go to the low tuition state colleges for a teaching degree. Not saying that's bad, but you did get the influx of that element of people who have the "I got a college education", attitude.

Need to develop viable alternatives and get rid of teacher certification requirements as they stand now to allow more subject experience into education from grade 5 or so upwards and pay them what they're worth, IMO. Along with that they need to go back to tracking, college prep, business and trade high schools.