On the Tenure Track

Teaching isn't all scantron grading and summers off. It is, or can be, a harrowing experience that separates the wheat from the chaff, and then wheat from other wheat because the district can't afford both bales.

The budget crisis doesn't help. Throw in a teacher-on-student sexual assault "epidemic," and you have a new teacher's disaster recipe. Serves one.

Under extreme pressure and higher scrutiny, for little pay, half of all new teachers quit within five years. Let's see if I even make it that long.