Add in the possibility of being shot... and the added responsibility of a loaded firearm... I'm sure they're gonna start lining up.
And before we make schools just like prisons... lets examine the prison guard turnover rates.
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MONTGOMERY, Ala. (WHNT) — A report from 2010 to 2021 by the Alabama Commission on the Evaluation of Services finds more than half of all first-time teachers in the state leave their jobs within three years of starting.
“I feel like it’s become more common than it used to be, absolutely. I just did the retention statistics last week, and 15% of our first-year teachers left,” Elmore County Public Schools Human Resources Director Susanne Goodin said.
Goodin has worked in the district in various roles for 26 years and has never seen hiring and retention issues quite like this.
“I was the principal of an elementary school for ten years and I would have 300-400 people apply for my jobs. At that same exact elementary school the principal that’s there now might have 20 if she’s lucky,” Goodin said.
Goodin says the pandemic’s negative impact on learning, too much emphasis on testing and low pay are driving some teachers out of the classroom.