[Clara Lou]

“When will they?”
It starts for most they first day of school. The turnover rate for new teachers is very high. Last I read, something in the neighborhood of 50% [I believe it's actually higher than my estimate] of these new teachers leave teaching within 3-5 years. A formal mentoring system for these new teachers is the remedy currently being used to give them a kind of support that will make them want to stay in teaching.

[tennteacher]

Three years ago, my high school hired 5 new English teachers; only one is still there.

[goodwithagun]

I teach in an inner city school but I grew up in a middle class, suburban, white town. It was definitely a culture shock, and still sometimes is. What I have come to understand is that “diversity” means the thug culture. It means gangs, drugs, and a lot of teenage pregnancy. “Diversity” means trying to fake a learning disability to get a “crazy check” from the government. This will be my third year teaching and I can believe the turnover rate. We have teachers retiring early because they can take no more “diversity.” Ironically, those baby-boomers are the ones that helped bring us most of the “diversity.”

[HIDEK6]

A formal mentoring system for these new teachers is the remedy currently being used to give them a kind of support that will make them want to stay in teaching.

What makes them stay in teaching is their inability to write that complete sentence that business correspondence demands.