The other important note is that the environment for teachers is good. We get lots of great people into teaching right after college through Teach for America and other programs, but they don't want to stay teachers.
Who would, when you get sent to the kind of underfunded, marginalized districts that are desperate enough to conclude that a liberal arts student who has no training in education, nor any student-teaching experience, is a reasonable option?
I have several friends that are still in education, and several more who bailed after TFA. It doesn't help that teachers get paid such shit wages, and the only way to earn more in most districts is to hang on and take your yearly bump. Or get a University of Phoenix master's degree for a little bit more of a bump.
