I was in Sunday School just the other day when a discussion erupted about teachers. A college student who is studying education mentioned how parents of some of her fellow students didn't feel like education was good enough for their child to be studying.
I bet if we asked those same parents what kind of teacher they wanted for their child when their child was going through K-12 schooling they would have said a great one.
So why is it that parents want great teachers, but don't want their own "great" kids to go into teaching? How will we as a society have enough great teachers, if the parents of smart kids are not encouraging them to go into teaching? We need more of our best and brightest to go into teaching.
Does anyone else see the dichotomy of these two positions? How do we fix this?
Thank you for reading.
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