When I retired out of the Air Force, I looked at the teacher recruitment going on, and there was a significant focus to get retired military in five or six different states. The states would have covered the certificate business. The negative as I saw it....these were looking for highly urbanized areas where you really don’t want to move into, or highly rural areas (I remember Montana being on the list). Las Vegas was on the list, and still is today...actively trying to get people interested.
Most school districts see military people as positive role models and very capable of enforcing discipline. I won’t argue about that. But if you came up to me and said here’s a guaranteed two-year deal at some upper-peninsula (full-up winter conditions) school...it’d be awful hard to convince me to move there.
You wouldn’t be allowed to enforce discipline, either. You would be reprimanded or fired for doing so. Or, shortly after being called on the carpet for enforcing discipline, you would get frustrated and quit. The inmates are running the asylum at every school in the country.
> Most school districts see military people as positive role models and very capable of enforcing discipline. <
I taught for quite a few years in an urban high school. The whole place was chaotic, except for the Junior ROTC wing.
The JROTC program there was run by a retired colonel - a no-nonsense southern gentleman - and a retired master sergeant who looked like he could beat up the Hulk.