Attracting teachers - "scripts" to teach by

Attracting intelligent well-educated K-12 public school teachers these days means making the profession much more attractive than it currently is.  Women, who have been the majority in teaching for 100 years, no longer have limited career options.  Women's contributions to middle-class family incomes are no longer considered  secondary.  The country has not faced these new realities.

The solution is not to adopt textbooks which provide a "script"  the teacher must use, with children following along in their own copy of the text.  This is anathema to anyone who is creative, well-educated, and highly motivated.  It is anathema to anyone who enjoys children.  Yet it is being touted as the solution to low achievement by certain publishers and  some of the new for-profit educational companies.  Drill-and-kill test preparation is another facet of this movement. The sell: cheaper teachers, higher test scores. Automatons with a prison guard mentality might find this an attractive occupation, not good teachers.