[NewChief]

Originally Posted by gblowfish

It's because the pay sucks, and districts try to bounce teachers before they start to move up the pay scale. Lots of teachers burn out after five or ten years.

School costs so much now that you can barely pay back student loans and have a life as a young teacher. So instead of going into education, students go into other fields that pay much better than education.

I'm married to a teacher, so I know.

All of this. Also: lots of young women teachers quit once they have their first baby and become stay at home mom's. Lots of hot young trophy wife teachers in our district who are working until they get pregnant with their first baby.