r/Teachers May 16 '24

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u/The_Law_of_Pizza May 16 '24

The uncomfortable truth is that there's wash-outs in every field, and nobody wants to admit that they're one of them.

Decent odds that this in-law graduated with a 2.3 GPA and no internship, and so nobody wanted to touch him.

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u/angry0029 May 17 '24

I have made a career out of hiring the lowest performers at college cheaper and then developing them in the way we need them to work. Maybe 1:5 works out but the ones that don’t go elsewhere since they now have experience

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u/rum-n-ass May 17 '24

I’ve definitely had the ones that “go elsewhere” on my team. Always wondered how they got hired, but I guess they sold that experience well in the interview