Teachers leaving profession in droves
By Shirley Dang
CONTRA COSTA TIMES
Article Launched: 04/26/2007

Stephan Goyne entered teaching as a "fight the good fight" kind of guy, taking a job in East Oakland right out of college.

"I come from a family of teachers. It wasn't even a question of whether to do that," Goyne said. "The question was whether to do elementary, middle or high school."

But after six years in the trenches -- transferred from campus to campus, forbidden from organizing field trips and ordered to teach math only after lunch -- Goyne left the profession.
Now he works in real estate and runs a Brazilian jiujitsu studio in Oakland.

"That last year, I had enough of it," said Goyne. "The biggest skill you're applying is crowd control. You're not really having a say in the curriculum or what goes into it." the rest