"fall-back" career choice, they are seriously mistaken.
First of all, few districts have shortages at all. As noted in the post below, many districts are hiring very few people and may be laying people off.
Second of all, teaching is not an "easy" job. It is very labor intensive, and little of it can be delegated, unlike being a manager for a corporation.
But most important, the business world really doesn't prepare people for just how shitty public schools are in terms of administrators. Whether one survives the public school experience depends less on talent or ability than on pure luck. One rotten administrator, as I had, and your career is over. And if you are over 40, forget even considering the field. Age discrimination is rampant, as I found out through bitter experience.
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I am a teacher in the Bronx and I had an principal who came in to close the school to make way for the smaller schools and he was on me like flies on shit. Luckily the union had a program in place that allowed outside folks, neither affiliated with the school nor the union, to evaluate me. She came to do observations 5 times. The previous year, my principal came on the last day of the year with a former colleague now trying to become a principal to observe me. The last day? I had a lesson plan with an objective of personal reflection in a letter to the principal. needless to say, I'm still going strong after 15yrs and love my job.
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