[angcat]

that's the only way you get a job in the corrupt Hazleton Area School District. The whole area is related to each other in some inbred way. They all have the same names and all teach or are nurses. Very bizarre place.

[Dilbert San Diego]

Sounds like supply and demand is part of this too.

If these teachers have “connections” with the right people in these school districts, get jobs and stay for 30+ years, there is little turnover in the teaching jobs in those areas.

Plus, many areas of Pennsylvania have seen long term population declines, so they don’t need new teachers due to population growth.