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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think it will vary by state. I have a friend who left the corporate world to get trained to be a teacher.  She did one of those alternate programs. She is in a state where teachers are paid well and get tenure. Well nobody wanted to leave their job. She ended up subbing and then moving on to a job where she could get health insurance. [/quote]

As far as I’m concerned tenure is a thing of the past. DCUMers and the likes nationwide didn’t like that teachers were set for life (professionally speaking) and so they got rid of such privilege. FL started it and the rest followed suit.

Can you sure which state your friend is in? [/quote]

Yeah teachers don’t leave as often in tenure states. It sounds like PP’s friend never got to teach. I subbed for two years in a tenure state because it’s really competitive to get a teaching job. Now I teach around here. However, I have a job next year and in my home state tons of teachers are getting laid off even some with tenure. It’s bad up there right now. [/quote]

What’s your home state?[/quote]

Massachusetts. I know a few laid off teachers, two have tenure. It’s possible they’ll get hired back, but they pink slipped way more than usual so they aren’t feeling great about it. There are a lot of certified teachers in north east states who sub, work as aides (they have aides in most k-2 classrooms up there), or they have their teaching license but left for business jobs since sub pays is worse than fast food worker pay (up there it is!! I was getting $75/day...).

Many people in states where they can’t get a teaching job don’t want to move though. I like teaching but it is different here and the biggest issue I have is class size. I’m curious how on earth the 1st and 2nd grade teachers get time to teach much when they have almost 30 kids! Where I’m from there were 20 or less students on first and second, and they had an aide all day. So the teacher could do small group instruction as a center and the aide would monitor 2-3 other centers to make sure the kids were actually doing them, behaving, not running away or hurting each other, etc. I really don’t know how they do it here. Are those grades just whole group instruction and then centers with no real small group teacher time? I’d imagine kids get really off task if their teacher is trying to meet 1:1 or in a small group and the other twenty kids are supposed to be completing centers. If there’s no other adult in the room to ask questions, do they just interrupt the teacher?

I don’t really blame people who get trained to teach in other states for not wanting to move to states that need teachers. There’s reasons why some states attract and retain many teachers and others don’t.[/quote]

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