RE: Attracting and Retaining Teachers

Maybe having pride in your profession is not something you add to a person after they have the job - maybe it is something in the person even before they got the job.  Maybe some people take pride in their profession regardless of what it is.  If this is true then maybe the lack of pride in the teaching profession is due to the people we hire.  We hire those who are willing to work for sub-standard pay, who are willing to be pushed around by their own labor union, are willing to pretend that their supervisors could do their job, are willing to accept that administrators are given medical benefits after retirements but teachers arn't, are willing not only for themselves to have less than others but are also willing for their wives and children to be second class citizens.