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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Public pays more - I did teach in private internationally and it was easier work. More planning time - very few struggling kids so you didn’t really feel like a failure or not able to reach certain kids. I didn’t have to deal with parent issues too much because all the parents loved me being a native English speaker.[/quote]

The assumptions made about private schools show lots of people are posting who don't know what they're talking about.

In this area, the average private school pays a lower salary and has as many "problem" kids as the public schools. Lots of kids get thrown out of school or their parents pull them for other problems. The teachers I know at private schools can't get jobs in the public schools or they can't move because the public schools don't count their years of experience in the same way. A teacher with lots of experience in private schools may not been given credit for all those years and thus start at a lower level in public.

Also, the stories I can tell about the crazy people I know who have no experience teaching who should never teach who are now or were teaching at private schools.[/quote]

Well this is dumb, because not all private schools are the same by a long shot (and neither are all public for that matter). Our school has a 30% admit rate and is sure not taking kids who gotten thrown out of their school, or hiring unqualified teachers (the vast majority of teachers they hire have graduate degrees in their field of expertise, if not “education”). I mean, I guess there are probably schools that hire mostly public school rejects, or don’t counsel out kids with issues, but I really don’t know of them. I suspect you don’t, either.

But it is true that private schools tend to attract teachers who don’t need to maximize their income, for whatever reason. [/quote]

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