In his role as area head of curriculum and instruction in a major university, the author reacts to some disturbing data that seem to indicate that far too many teachers are not certain about their previous career choices. Less than 50% of the respondents in a national study indicated that they would select teaching again with 8 of 10 of those responding that they would be in the classroom "next year." The author advances a number of promising developments that should lead to improvements that will assure we end up with more teachers who really want to be in the classroom.