[Tanniker Smith]

I'm not surprised that new teachers can't last five years because of everything they're saddled with right off the bat, combined with the fact that there are fewer people to mentor them because the senior teachers are either retiring or being pushed out.

No one wants to place a senior (expensive) teacher in their school (and in their budget) when they can get two newbies for the same price, then use 'em up, burn 'em out, and replace them with fresh ones.

[krug]

You my friend are exactly correct. Public education is a service industry. Hire the newbies at entry level salary and work them like dogs. After 2-4 years they quit and you hire a new batch. As an urban teacher of 29 years they hate me cause I’m a survivor. They continue to give me shit schedule shit kids and no pay increase. They want me gone. I have no integrity it’s merely a job with partial health insurance and a 50% after 30
years of psychological and emotional abuse. I survive because I don’t care.