Job security, student quality, and the kind of teacher I want to be

I think I touched on this in an earlier blog, but I think today I'm going to talk a little bit more about job security involved with teaching. I heard on the news that CRSD is going to drop some like 48 teachers going into the next school year. Normally, I wouldn't think twice about this, but seeing how I'm focusing on teaching as a career, it's a pretty big concern to me.
Usually teaching is seen as a career where you're pretty much there for life. From what I've seen lately, schools are dropping teachers like flies...this worries me. It seems like to me, that the education system is falling apart. A lot of the teachers I've had seem like they could care less about the student's learning and instead are worried about their salary.
Of course, we can't pin everything on the teachers. So, let me place some blame on us-the students. There are a lot of students at this school-- and across the nation-- that could care less about their education. They're still in the mindset that they're going to be come famous and money will never be an issue (and in their eyes, their lack of an education will mean nothing). I find that attitude disgusting. Sure, i don't do my homework ALL THE TIME-- I'm not a candidate for Valedictorian by any means, but...I know that my education is important and something that I shouldn't take for granted. I could be living in an impoverished country where education isn't mandatory, or in a country where women aren't allowed to go to school.
We're lucky to be living in America, a modern country where everyone is given an opportunity to learn (whether or not some of us take it is another matter). I think that students should take advantage of the things that they're given, and those teachers who only care about the money they're making, should reconsider the career that they've chosen for themselves. To be a teacher, I think that you need to have a certain personality. You need to actually care about your students, you want to see them do well in life, not fail. I also understand that there are some students that you just can't help and need to give up on, but I'm referring to the students who actually would like to succeed-- teachers should be always willing to help their students, even if it causes them some inconveniences. I once had a teacher (in elementary school) who would come in at 7 something in the morning and pull me out of my daycare program at the school, just so he could teach me how to do long division-- because I was the only one in the class who didn't get it. It's that kind of teacher that I want to be like-- willing to cause myself inconvenience to see students do well.