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I know a young man who started teaching and coaching this year. Loves it. Now you don't coach for the money. I think most know that. The hours for the extra stipend doesn't really come out to much. But his friends all make 60-70% more than he does right out of college. One of the perks to teaching is that the good retirement offsets the poor pay. I talked to him a couple of of weeks ago and he is thinking about changing professions. Every teacher he knows is now telling him if the system they are proposing goes through they would not stay in teaching if they were just starting. Most of the teachers and coaches he knows have been doing it for too long to get out now but EVERY one of them tells him he might want to look elsewhere for a career. So sad. There is already a lack of young coaches. I had no idea of that until recently and this will only make it much worse.