The Central Florida County which gained notoriety a few years ago for firing teachers is now hiring 400 of them.

But the teacher's union president says the school district will have a hard time finding teachers because universities are not graduating educators in large numbers.

To add to that, students who prefer not to work in Volusia County because of it's past, like one education major we found here at Stetson University.

Joe Bigler is a Stetson university student majoring in music education. 

Volusia County is not his first choice to work in because of the district's hiring and firing history.

"Primarily, I would say probably back home in Naples, Florida. There's a lot of job security there." said Bigler.

In 2008, Volusia County school district gave hundreds of teachers pink slips and eliminated hundreds of teaching positions.

Now they're hiring because student enrollment numbers are up and teachers are retiring.

To add to that, the district must meet class size amendment requirements.

"We've not been hiring a lot of teachers over the past few years. so I'm very excited that we have the opportunity to bring more into this profession." said Kelly Conway who is charge of recruiting teachers for the district.

But the president of the teacher's union says filling those positions may be a tough task.

"And then the teachers that are here are wanting to get out. so we're seeing a large exodus. At the same time we're not seeing a large number of people going into the profession." said VTO President Andrew Sparr.

Sparr says teachers feel no respect from lawmakers and feel a great amount of job stress.

He says finding qualified teachers will be hard enough.

Earlier this month, the district held a recruitment seminar. Another recruitment drive is scheduled for June 12th at Mainland High school in Daytona Beach.

"We have over 200 that came to (the first seminar). How many qualified? We had 85 that qualified." admitted Conway.

The school district will keep trying to hire, or face a large teacher shortage.

As many as 600 applicants are expected to attend.