Re:Cruitment, Re:Tention: Going to P.O.T. - An Intro, "Prelim"😟

Students, Teachers, Athletes, Programs: I've written here about, re:garding, many sub-topics associated with the larger topic of "School Daze", including those associated with actual subs themselves, which will become an area of increasing demand as the school year progresses, re:gardless of  CV counts...and will continue to be an area of opportunity for aspiring part-timers -- if the figures forecasting how many currently in the teaching profession, at least those in public education, even an approximation, within what statisticians refer to as "standard error of measurement"...what we, as psychometricians have to incorporate into test scores, especially when we interpret them to parents and teachers, make longer term projections...are prepping to leave the profession for greener pastures. Some of the reasons they have given, the ones that have complained more openly, have been touched on here (e.g., poor pay compared to other professions and for the actual amount of work/hats they wear, lack of respect by "outsiders") whereas those among the mass exodus of "quiet quitters" take a bit more effort to fully discover ("discovery" being very instrumental to the practice of law, medicine, psychology...), in order to ensure long term outcomes of any course of action...programming, the latter of which usually calls for HUGE investments up front. Yeh, there's a lot on recruitment and almost a corresponding amount on (student, athlete, teacher, nurse...) retention rates, as well as on the other side, those who are either shown the door, or those who leave more "quietly"...rates of attrition (which, as I aged, continued to participate in competitive endurance sports, which were based on "age divisions", became one of my favorite words)...There's a lot at play here, as well as very serious business, which is why it's deserving of our time, attention, assiduous study, the breadth and depth of which exceed the allotted space and attention span of the "average" reader, so I will try to at least skim the surface of each area of interest (at least "two out of three" as in the "Project Management Triangle"), and hope that you will be provoked to go and explore more on your own -- consider it "independent study", which was something we were able to get "extra credit" for in high school, but a term I don't hear much anymore outside of "International Baccalaureate" programs or college (the latter of which is supposedly designed accordingly). 

Coming to Terms: BTW, for current context and the next few posts, "P.O.T." is used here in part to gain, recruit your attention, but also a convenient abbreviation for "Performance Over Time", a key measure in evaluating the success of "programs", "traditions of excellence" as compared with one good report card/term, one successful season ("won and done"?), a "good day on Wall Street", a "hot streak, a string of good luck"...After which, eventually, after I have addressed what makes for good/bad "programs", why there continue to be so many "trends" in (especially public) education, I'll finally also address what may be a rising contributor to the actual "daze" (as in "dazed and confused") of so many students, these days, in a future post, "Revoke (?) the Toke"...In the meantime, I hope I can retain your interest short term, next few posts at least; if you're reading this for the first time, a new recruit, "welcome".  (a footnote: "Prelim" was something I did not confront as a student until "graduate level" education, an abbreviation for an exam that determined whether we would be retained in the program for "doctoral studies"....whereas in athletics in determines if you can go on to the next "round" of competition, even that of an Olympic scale.