The AJC recently reported fewer Georgians are choosing teaching as a career. I discuss whether the decline owes to increased pressures in the profession and new accountability measures based on student achievement. Readers offer their opinions why fewer people opt to become teachers. A guest columnist bemoans the focus on the attire of female teachers, saying attention to hemlines may be masked as concern about professionalism but is really plain old sexism.

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Scott Jackson (right), business service consultant for WorkSource Fulton, helps job seekers with their applications in a mobile career center at a job fair hosted by Goodwill Career Center in Atlanta. (Ziyu Julian Zhu/AJC)

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