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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I interviewed for & was offered a teaching job there, but declined (chose FCPS instead) due to extremely low teaching salaries and no benefits. They also do not require their teachers to have a teaching license. It’s crazy to me that parents pay that much money for unlicensed teachers who get paid crap. I also privately worked with a Nysmith student several years later who was definitely not ‘gifted.’[/quote]

Yes maybe the county is a better employer than privates from the teacher's point of view.  But parents (including us for our 2 kids) are paying for the actual outputs/delivery of the education (eg strong curriculum, actual specialiats in science and social studies teaching elementary kids, differentiated math, elementary foreign language, smaller class size, actual textbooks, more chance to do extracurriculars, well behaved students, parents who can afford tuition so who also care about education and are discerning consumers of education).  And the differentiated at a private which is unusual at similar privates downtown.

Nysmith used to be better and more academic but it is still a string curriculum and has the class size to make that operational.  It is much harder to do this in public nowadays with the class sizes and emph2 on no child left behind.

It doesnt affect me if their teachers have fewer benefits; most a good teachers anyway.

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