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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]When the gal across the street moved from a highly sought after DC private school to a Virginia public school her annual salary increased 60%.  That's a lot.  But the OP is wrong in that in Virginia at least there is no teacher union.  Not sure about Maryland and the District.  Getting back to the gal from private, she did note that the number of school days[i] increased[/i] dramatically, the number of teacher gifts [i]decreased[/i] significantly, the amount of work stayed the same, she gets MORE contact after-hours from parents and the parents are much more demanding (this last part I thought was odd but she had quite a few examples.  Could it be due to the class size increasing?).[/quote]

Why did she begin at the private in the first place? Weren't any years there sort of years wasted as far as pension and salary/seniority tiers are concerned?[/quote]

This is the first poster.  My neighbor started at a private because it was her first teaching experience as a career switcher from a career in the field she now teaches.  She stayed at the private for five or six years I think while she finished her certification and left when she got hired by a NoVa school system.  Her private tried to offer her more but they just couldn't compete with the pay at a public.  She is an awesome teacher and they loved her at the private.  So she did lose years of pension and seniority but it got her into teaching.  As much as school systems and state departments of education complain about the teacher shortage and the need for career switchers in critical need areas, they don't make it easy for people to do it.  This was how my neighbor was able to do it and everyone benefited.[/quote]

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