QR Preface

What jumped out at me in the preface were the statistics about teachers, specifically “60 percent quitting the profession within their first five years.” This was surprising to me because it is a much higher number than I would have imagined. One would think that going through all of the education required to become a teacher, people would realize whether or not they wanted to truly teacher or not. However, I am sure that some beginning teachers experience tough times that make them reconsider the teaching profession once they are already in it.