I agree that poorly prepared
teachers is one cause of the high dropout rate, but as with most problems, many causes exist, including an anti-intellectual culture that values over-paid athletes and celebrities w / no obvious talent (e.g. Kim Kardashian); parents who think all their male children will grow up to be Yankees so never
put books in the kids» hands; pseudo education reformers who sell a narrative that a first
year teacher is no different from a
veteran with a grad degree and thirty
years teaching experience, administrators who hire based on coaching rather than teaching, school boards that cut library programs rather than sports, etc..
He recognizes that new
teachers and
veteran educators need different kinds of nourishment, whether it's encouragement to see through the difficult early
years, advice on midcareer team building, or novel ideas for how longtime educators can
put their expertise to work.
The first
veteran teacher with 36
years of «excellent evaluations» scored ineffective for missing too much work, although she was approved for and
put on a six - month's leave after a serious injury caused by a fall.