What Makes Public School Teachers Stay Leave or become Non-teachers?

This work differentiated three groups of publicschool teachers: those who Leave those who become Non-teaching educators and those who Stay in teaching and then analyzed their personalcharacteristics beliefs and perceptions leading totheir decision. Low pay was cited as one of the mainreasons for leaving teaching entirely. Moving withineducation for a non-teaching position was the reasonfor leaving for non-teaching educators. Compared to the other two groups those who stayed in teaching were more likely to be satisfied in their current job/position in several aspects such as- fringe benefits challenge of work and further education. Additionally those who stayed were more likely to stay and be satisfied with their professions when they had autonomy in their classroom student discipline and class size were not a problem when they received support from parents and students had motivation to learn. Decision tree models showed that younger teachers were more likely to be satisfied with student motivation and support from parents.