Good teachers want to teach in good schools

It seems like lazy teachers would want to teach in good schools.

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In Pennsylvania, for instance, more than 20 percent of teachers are unlicensed in the schools with the largest concentration of minority students.

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Or consider Louisiana: Nearly 20 percent of classes in the most impoverished schools are taught by teachers who don’t meet the federal definition of “highly qualified” — which generally means they lack a bachelor’s degree, are unlicensed or don’t have a strong academic background in the subject they’re teaching.

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This is insane.

The obvious solution is to bus kids from affluent areas to the poorer schools...

Sarcasm meter now off.

A qualified/good teacher can pick where they want to teach. The only way to improve this situation is to have a substantial pay difference in lower performing schools. And I don't mean 5 to 10% (or 4 to 5,000).

My girlfriend is an elementary teacher at a minority majority, impoverished, rural elementary school outside of Baton Rouge. She tells me how several of their other teachers graduated college with a low GPA with a degree totally unrelated to education. And some of these have failed sections of the Praxis multiple times but are still allowed to teach with a waiver simply because they can't find anyone qualified who is willing to teach there. My girlfriend went to a private school and it has been quite the culture shock to say the least.