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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Duckslayer100" data-source="post: 489662" data-attributes="member: 1485">I'm going to get on a stump for a moment.There are rotten folks in all walks of life. You can have 9 awesome people who do their work and strive hard -- passed every test and got where they were based on education, grit and/or determination -- but then you'll have 1 who has done everything the other 9 do and just sucks the life out of the room.We seem to attract that 10 percent of people who have the qualifications, but zero interest in anything else -- and will leave again as soon as possible. North Dakota has had an educator retention problem for years. I know, because for a semester of education during what I'll dub an early midlife crisis, I decided I wanted to shift gears and be a teacher. There were some huge incentives for taking jobs in rural ND, and even remote learning programs through universities such as Mayville State.But even with all that, you still have the problem that is North Dakota in a nutshell: If you're not FROM here and you don't want to BE here, it's incredibly hard to recruit talented professionals who will stay for more than a handful of years before using their experience in whatever position they had to jump out of state and back to somewhere more temperate and less rural.If we really wanted to solve that, it's that old saying again, "Money talks, and bullshit walks." I know we can't spend our way out of anything, but compensation well above what the national average is, and definitely above the state average, would do wonders to attract folks who know their stuff.Then again, you'd need the right folks to weed out the bad apples and hire who we want. Which is another issue entirely (incompetence runs deep in administration).</blockquote>

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