I don’t see the problem here. You could have military guys retiring who have a degree that is totally unrelated to the education field....but they could easily fit into this situation that they are designing.
I looked it up...for Detroit (last year)....starting salary for a rookie teacher is $35,000 a year. In three years, you’d be at roughly $38,000. In ten years, maybe around $45,000. Toss in some pension deal, and it might be attractive to some folks.
But the negative to this is teacher-burnout which they tend to say around the 6th year....it’s near 17-percent of teachers.
Being a teacher in a lot of schools nowadays is like being a prison guard.