Eh. I'd say it's not at all uncommon. I seem to remember most of my elementary school teachers being in their 20's and a few teachers after that too. Plus, the

Eh. I'd say it's not at all uncommon. I seem to remember most of my elementary school teachers being in their 20's and a few teachers after that too. Plus, there's student teachers and subs, etc. I'd stay it's probably a pretty low ratio somewhere around 1:10 or 1:20, but yeah a lot of them don't stay teachers for a long time, but that's still more than enough time to make impressions on students. And I'd bet there's a very high correlation to making an impression on a student (in your first few years teaching) and staying in the profession.