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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]Anonymous wrote:
Not sure why anyone with a PhD would teach at Bullis for 50% the pay they'd make in MCPS and a fraction of the benefits.

My child's AP teacher likes teaching the AP class while having time to teach at GW.

Staff also get reduced to free tuition (depending on their part time or full time status).

In general, staff seem to be happier than the public school teachers my child had. Smaller class sizes and less micro management by administrators give teachers more time to devote to teach and work with students. Read the DCUM threads about how MCPS teachers are treated and you might understand why some would turn to working for a private school.

BTW I am not sure you are correct with the percentage difference in pay. That data is confidential.[/quote]

+1 Private school teachers often have under grad and grad degrees in the subjects that they teach and love while public school teachers have degrees in education. Very few public high school teachers have a deep mastery of the subjects that they teach because their educational requirements include them.

Successful career changers often go to private rather than public because even if you were an Ivy class professor you would need to go back to undergrad to take all the education courses. Its also probably hard psychologically to go from having a successful degree and solid degrees to being constantly harassed and micromanaged by the idiots that populate public school administration. MCPS really is a garbage dump of toxic, with light weight degrees and limited intellectual capabilities pretending to be little kings and queens. They really drag down the good teachers and prefer teachers who were C students and are coming out of community colleges.

Good teachers in MCPS who have a spouse that makes enough to cover their lifestyle often jump out to private. Good teachers that don't have that option suck it up to get the higher benefits and pay. 
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I career-changed with a master’s in my subject and never took a single undergrad education course. I took 6 graduate level education courses. DH has a PhD in his subject area and never took any undergrad education courses either. He took seven grad level courses in education. We both teach in MCPS. There are many colleagues we know with the same preparation. [/quote]

What was your field?  I ask out of legitimate interest, not the usual DCUM snark.  I've considered teaching as a second career, but even with advanced degrees in both engineering and business, I don't meet the subject requirements for math.[/quote]

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