[ClearCase_guy]

the recurring emphasis that education policy tends to place on test scores. This rigidity, argues Nekita Lamour, a Haitian-American and tenured educator, disincentivises black and Hispanic educators from participating in the system

I think she's saying that they're not smart enough to be teachers, but I'm not sure. Anyway, she sounds like an awful racist!

[FredZarguna]

The answer isn't complicated, and it's exactly what you think it is. As teachers have been made more accountable, fewer and fewer of them can meet standards. This is what the article says -- with some weasel words, along with the oft repeated lie that teachers are "underpaid." In terms of market wage pressure, number of hours worked, and job qualification, teachers as a group are actually overpaid, and the decline in their numbers is not caused by poor compensation.

[umgud]

Where there’s a diverse teaching workforce, all kids thrive.

I guess if it's on the internet, it must be true? (I say BS)

[babble-on]

Urban public schools are seen by politicians primarily as a jobs program for dumb graduates of terrible colleges.

If along the way a kid or two gets and education that is a pleasant side benefit, but it is not the point of the enterprise.

[DPMD]

Could it also be that many of them are sick of being assaulted by students who now have the impunity to commit crimes at without consequences, thanks to Eric Holder? One suspects that many of those who remain are also the kind who think white teachers shouldn’t be teaching or seen as role models at predominantly black schools. Racism in all its forms is poison.

[gop4lyf]

Probably for the same reason this white teacher left an urban school to teach in a rural district. The vast majority of the students had no intention of learning. School was simply a place for free babysitting for the “parents.” There were exceptions, of course, but I dreaded going to work every day. I have recently taken a huge pay cut to work in a rural district an hour away, and could not be happier. The kids are polite, respectful, and genuinely interested in learning. Most of them have mom AND dad together at home. Parents are supportive of the school. Best of all, I actually get to teach, instead of just be a referee or warden.

[Tallguy]

No teacher left behind?

[maddog55]

Probably tired of getting punched, kicked, spit on and shot at.

[grania]

This is not new. Many black teachers who get their start in the inner city leave as soon as they get a good evaluation and some high-end non-urban system has a quota to fill. This goes back until the 1980s, at least.

A lot stay in the inner city, of course. But many of the best ones leave for greener pastures.

(That's my personal observation, an opinion....not something I've researched)

[RegulatorCountry]

It’s a lot harder to try to teach in an environment not conducive to learning, so they eventually lose their idealism and try to get into suburban schools where they don’t face such difficulties. Pretty simple, really.

[tbw2]

Black kids are way more likely to assault teachers than white kids or Asian kids. The black teachers are directed to inner city schools in the belief that black kids have to have black teachers, leading to greater odds they’ll be assaulted.

[Nailbiter]

bflr