Most of the people in education go into the field because they enjoyed their time in school and want to help others. Many leave the field in the first 3 to 5 years because they realize it's not what they think it is. They see the summers off, all the breaks they get and do not realize that amount of work that is required during the school year to keep things going, and the pay, which is improving, for the first 10 years or so is very poor. Make it 5 years or more, and many are going to make it retirement, and you cannot beat IPERS, once you get there.
The sorry part is around 90% of the kids really want to learn and enjoy being there, its the remaining 10% of kids that public education just has not come up with a solution to deal with. In private schools they can just say, "there is the door, and you are no longer welcome here" but you cannot do that at public schools. So you end up dealing with a small group of kids, that do not want to be there, do nothing but cause trouble. Which the better kids see, and then they start to drift towards acting like them. Get rid of that 10% and everyone would be better off, including them, as they do not want to be there anyway.
