Veteran teachers leaving in droves

Any teacher can tell you that it takes many years of experience before a teacher can think of herself/himself as a great teacher. Great veteran teachers are leaving the profession in droves due to mandates from people who have never taught in a classroom-politicians with an agenda that has little to do with effective learning in the classroom. No Child Left Behind, Race to the top, and Common Core are all "one size fits all" methodologies which simply create hardships for experienced teachers trying to instill a lifelong love of learning in their students while teaching basics. Imagine George W. Bush who bragged out being a C student being the impetus for the failed "No Child Left Behind". Had he studied more history he might have known never to get deeply involved in Iraq where thousands of soldiers and civilians have died and literally several trillion-not billion-have been spent. For what? Civil war still prevails there.  Now, in Milford, after several disgraced Superintendents, we have a third Superintendent who wants to build a brand new unnecessary high school and to consolidate our wonderful Elementary Schools.  No wonder veteran teachers are leaving. No wonder parents are pulling their children out of such a system.  There is talk of keeping Law and Foran, the Middle Schools, and most of the Elementary neighborhood schools. Is this just a short term plan to placate parents for now. Sue Glennon, chair of the Board of Education, for reasons still unclear and not educationally sound, continues to push the Mega High School.  Clearly she is no expert on education.  Does she care that veteran teachers have left and that rookie teachers are in our schools?  Why is there no discussion about the very things that make for great education?  Why is it all facilities bound?  Why is the Long Range Planning Committee all about facilities and very little about great teachers who can instill a love of history, art , music, literature, science, Shakespeare, chemistry, physics, Marine Biology, Zoology,
Electricity, Information Technology, government, civics, ornithology,
 archaeology, biology, drama, art history, Wadsworth Atheneum, Yale Center for British Art, paleontology, native American studies, herpetology, mineralogy, geology, Connecticut Butterfly Association,
Why is there no discussion by the long Range Planning Committee of how to lure veteran teachers back to the classrooms? It is veterans-experienced teachers- who will make a difference in childrens lives. IT IS NOT COSTLY NEW FACILITIES and LONGER TIMES ON SCHOOL BUSSES THAT make a difference in a childs life.
Children need stability more than ever especially in times when there may be a breakup at home. Maintaining our neighborhood school system which people like Joe Foran took many years to create will provide the type of stability todays kids deserve.
Lets repair the mistake of 4 years ago and begin the search to get veteran teachers back in the classrooms of Milford. That is the conversation we should be having not millions  more for consolidated schools with larger classes and more time spent on school busses outside our neighborhoods