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Letters: State can easily improve teacher retention

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I didn’t realize teacher retention was such a big problem in South Carolina (“Key challenge for S.C. schools: teacher retention,” July 3). But there’s a simple solution: If South Carolina produced a safe environment for teachers and the students respected their teachers, the teacher retention rate would rise.

David Jordan

Columbia

This story was originally published July 16, 2017 at 6:23 PM with the headline "Letters: State can easily improve teacher retention."

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