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A few years ago, the Warren county three Reals school District in Warrenton, Missouri, was having this big problem.
They kept losing teachers.
Every school year we'd lose about, you know, 50 or so teachers, which was.
20% of the teaching staff.
And so that was really a problem to be losing that many.
This is the school's superintendent, Greg Klingensmith.
It's like three words.
Klingensmith.
So, Klingensmith.
Greg Klingensmith School District has about 3000 students, which is medium sized.
It's not really rural, but not suburban either.
There's a pre k, three elementary schools, one middle school, one high school.
And they didn't have a problem recruiting teachers.
They had a problem keeping them.
And so we would always have first year teachers that would come out to us for a year.
And then two, maybe then they leave.
They'd leave for higher pay because the starting salary in Greg's district is $36,931 a year.
But in the next district over, which is bigger, more suburban, the starting pay is like $10,000 more than that.
And so we just couldn't compete.