Why don't our youngsters today want to join the teaching profession?

too much stress for the pay - and having too many responsibilities for too many bratty children.

I don't think that is true. Good Luck!!!

im twenty four and my major is special education.....therefore i do want to join the teaching profession.....and judging by the number of people that are education majors at my school i would say there are alot of others just like me.....

Cause the pays sucks

Hello, Today's youngsters just keep names to teachers but can't teach as they don't express & understand and can't make others undrstand.

I'd have to say because of the negativity they hear from their current teachers. I've heard teachers say over and over again that they are drastically under paid, over-worked, and that things have gotten too political...and I've heard them say these things infront of their students. I would estimate that almost half of the teachers in our district are fed up with their job...aren't afraid to say so...and have no passion left for teaching. The other half are long-timers...they don't agree with the changes taking place, but they still have the same passion to teach as they did when they began 20 years ago.

I would, but I don't want to get a degree for it. If they just want you to teach out of text books, thats work a parrot can do. Life experience is where its at. I am currently teaching my kids what I know. They excel in their age groups. I have much respect for the teaching profession, I had 3 memorable teachers in highschool out of 40. The rest was a great social experience.

This is the case of an age old economic problem that is being made much worse by its head on collision with a demographic problem. Kids don't want to be teachers because you have to spend too much time in school and rack up too much student debt for too little income potential on the back side. By way of comparison we're having the same problem with the supply of nursing students. But that's where the similarity ends and the interesting influence of demographics begins. As the Baby Boomers continue along the age continuum they will beging to demand more health care. Because they are well insured, well resourced and so large in volume the market will respond. Supply and demand will dictate that the wages and benefit packages for these professionals will go up. Interesting. But not true of teachers and here's why... Teachers are in the public sector. Public resources are limited, also for reasons of demographics. The Baby Boomers are beginning to leave the work force. The millennials are almost as large as boomers. Thanks to the pill and Roe V. Wade (I'm talking outcomes here, not value judgments) Generation X (the part of the workforce now entering their prime) is one of the smallest. As a result the tax base is stagnant. Rather than hiring more teachers (creating supply) we are instead increasing class room sizes (decreasing demand). The upshot is, kids may be wise to move into better paying professions at the moment. There just isn't political or financial will to pay educators what they are worth.

Those Who Can, Do. Those Who Can't, Teach ... George Bernard Shaw I am a teacher and i know i can teach well and that's why i do.