As you can see from many of the comments on this story & others about education, the attitude of many in this state is very anti-teacher & anti-education. Why would young people want to enter a profession they've heard belittled and bashed all their lives? 

By the way, I'm a teacher from "down south" who has lived & taught here for 6 years. I'm no less invested in my students or their success because I grew up elsewhere.