suing careers where salary, promotional opportunities, status and prestige are greater than those offered by the teaching profession. As Garibaldi (1988) puts it:
Thus, paradoxically, the one profession responsible for preparing blacks to gain from affirmative action opportunities is a field chosen by fewer and fewer black students...(Garibaldi, 1988, p.177)
Garibaldi and Hawkins' views of the minority teacher shortage are decidedly different. In Garibaldi's view, shortage is said to be due to the failure of the educational system to successfully compete with other career systems, while in Hawkins' view, the shortage is said to be due to the failure of the educational system to focus on the benefits gained by black teachers of black students as well as to update quotas commensurate with increased enrollment of minorities. However, Haberman (1987) has suggested that the problem is not really one of race/ethnicity so much as it is one of locat
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