Counting down 1 year to retirement :)
I'm a free agent able to sell my labor to the highest bidder. There is a lot of competition among teachers to get a job in the “good” suburban high paying districts so those districts get the most qualified teachers. Most teachers aren't interested in working in an inner city school, the pay would have to be much higher to overcome the metal detector factor.
Good luck getting a higher math or science teacher to go if assigned against their will to Michael Brown's high school. Not that he was taking those classes, he was taking the computer based classes we put kids that can't behave in a regular class or need the really dumbed down computer curriculum because they can't pass regular classes.
I’ll tell the story of Huntsville, Alabama.
As the feds stepped into the system in the 1960s...to remake the school system and “fix” the problems, an interesting school system came into effect. Two of the city districts had become predominately black, and thus the schools in those districts went the same direction (although run by the fed mandate). The remaining schools in the city found that more and more parents were moving out of the city to the “burbs” and thus in the county school system. The better city school teachers? They got themselves transferred to the county.
By 2010, the city realized that if they did nothing....they’d become like Birmingham within two decades (the worst educational system in the state).
So, they brought in a former Army general, remade the districts, and fought tooth-and-nail against bad teachers, stagnant parent attitudes, and absolute belief that all schools torn down....would be replaced in the same neighborhood with the same names and same teachers.
The feds? They tried to step back into the battle but found that neither the Democrats or Republicans were going to support them. Other than a few community groups...they couldn’t find anyone supporting the continuing trend. The fired teachers? I’m sure that they found other counties in the state to accept them.
The city even hired a former FBI guy to cruise Facebook profiles and name gang-players in the school system. Those kids? They got tossed out. What the gang-players discovered next was that the county school system refused them. So, other than going to the next county over, or getting into a private school....they weren’t going to be accepted. Rough treatment, but it’s what people asked for.