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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Are you a new teacher or experience? If you are new I would say go with a charter because many of them invest in training their teachers. Find one that does this. Find out their educational philosophy and if it aligns to yours. If you don't know what yours is then you first need to sit down and figure that out. If you do wind up going with DCPS as a new teacher then go with a struggling school. They will view you less as a liability then an established DCPS school that does well on tests. Even if you don't teach a testing grade in DCPS there is a trickle down mindset where even K teachers are being forced to teach in a way that is not developmentally appropriate for young children. This is done all in the name of test scores. DCPS IMPACT is no joke and if there is not a pay difference between the DCPS school and the charter school then again, go with the charter. DCPS union is pretty weak and rarely helps anyone so no need to worry about union protections. [/quote]

Thank you for the info! Would actaullly be making more at the charter vs Dcps now that everything has been finalized.  Leaning towards the charter but I've always worked for a public school so I'm apprehensive [/quote]

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