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In recent years, top-level college graduates have not been attracted to teaching.
Rather he opines that poor students have lower graduation rates because they have less access to the best teachers and because teacher pay and expectations are low so talented people are not attracted to teaching.
His implication that people are attracted to teaching for the "seniority, life tenure, lockstep pay, lifetime pensions" insults the majority of teachers, who join the profession because they actually enjoy imparting knowledge and enthusiasm for learning, and love their students, even in the most difficult schools.
Teachers need to be paid adequately in relation to other professions with similar requirements to ensure that good and motivated young people are attracted to teaching.
As a product of Florida's school system, I hate to think of who might be attracted to teaching if we paid them extra to have guns.
Such people are often attracted to teaching or politics and tend to be charismatic leaders.
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Talented people are attracted to the teaching profession because of the job security, decent salary and good benefits it promises.
I continue to be profoundly attracted to the teaching and person of Jesus, and try to follow him as a "living lord" in my own way.
That may be the reason why all over the world people spend money to acquire prestige accents such as British received pronunciation, while few people would be attracted to a course teaching "Nigerian English".
My tendency to root for the underdog is what attracted me to teaching English in the first place.
As he grew older he became increasingly attracted to foreign languages, taught himself French and read two French newspapers before any in English.
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