I think your basic premise is simply off base, that we steer conservatives into education, and that is going to fix a problem.
Trying to fix the problem by encouraging young conservative people to become teachers is like trying to encourage women to become engineers. It is a liberal proposition. Talented women either want to be engineers, or they don’t. Using the example of women in engineering, a subject liberals think all kind of nonsense about it, it is typical of their approach they take by throwing time, money and effort by trying to force a change using bureaucracy and my money, and yet, the numbers aren’t much different. Yet they persist, because some people in a building in Washington think the under-representation in engineering fields of human beings with breasts and vaginas is an extremely important issue to be addressed.
Never mind the sexual anatomy of the engineer doesn’t have a thing to do with whether a catheter used by a physician will work right, or an airplane is designed by an engineer to handle well in a cross wind.
Because people have the freedom (or still do, for a little while) to go into field they are interested in, that presents a problem: most kids have more exposure to the profession of teaching than nearly any other profession by the time they graduate from high school. And whether it is accurate or not, there are a large number to whom it is not a draw. Now, being a guitar player, artist, or pilot (like Bill Whittle) that is interesting to them. Never mind many professional pilots feel as romantic and challenged by their jobs as school bus drivers, the perception is important.
You don’t want people to do what they want to do, you want them to do what you want them to do because it is perceived to be for the greater good. It doesn’t mean there aren’t young conservatives who are going to be attracted to teaching and be good at it, in the same way there are certainly women out there interested in engineering who become fine engineers.
That national group you founded and currently lead, “The Conservative Education Association” whose charter is to find ways as teachers to encourage young people to enter the field of teaching, how is that working out? It probably isn’t, because you likely don’t run an organization, nor is it likely any of your conservative compatriots do either.
How about this? You work hard at what you do to improve your situation and make it your task to steer young conservatives into the field and mentor them?
I will work hard at what I do to improve the field I work in, and am going to encourage and mentor young people under me and foster the ideas of conservatism in their work ethic and their.
That was the lamest comparison I have ever heard. Engineering is a very specific field; teaching isn’t. Face it. Conservatives don’t want to do what has to be done. They just want to preach to the choir on the internet. They aren’t ever going to put their money where their mouth is. It’s too haaaaaard. So Common Core is here to stay, just like federal involvement in education is here to stay, just like welfare and social security are here to stay, just like Obama care is here to stay. Because too many conservatives are all mouth and no action.