Because they require years of bs education courses. The unions want to limit the numbers, as always
I would imagine many don’t because of the life threatening situations they are put in, administrations will not prosecute unruly black and brown students. Would you want your wife beat up in the class room and you have no recourse?
Yup. I can teach at major universities but not highschool. Just silly.
My daughter is a teacher. Her pay is frankly not all that bad.
She is in a charter school. She has interviewed for many public school teaching jobs. None have been offered. The hiring practices of the public schools are a thoroughly corrupt cesspool of cronyism and nepotism. A district in this area famously got 3000 resumes for one job opening, and the job went to a relative of a school board member. That’s pretty much the norm.
It’s not the pay that drives people away from teaching.
One of two things:
1) Their ability to actually do the job is stifled by political correctness, pea-brained bureaucrats, and suffocating regulation from the States and the Feds.
2) Student discipline is so utterly lacking that in the best case scenario trying to teach them anything is a total waste of time (and in the worst your physical safety is in danger).