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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]A friend of mine was making about 90K teaching an elementary grade at a NoVa public.  She applied for a job at a NoVa private that was advertised at about 80K.  They met her salary requirement of matching her current salary.  She was highly qualified and worth every penny.  I was impressed that the private would do that.  My impression of privates had been that they save money by hiring less qualified (on paper) teachers who were willing to work for less money.[/quote]

Did they match her health insurance and other benefits?[/quote]

I’m a DP, but I can answer with my experience. I switched from public to private in my 12th year of teaching. The private matched my salary. I was offered comparable health benefits. The one place I took a hit was the state pension. I am no longer contributing, but the new school contributes to my retirement. I suspect I would have been better off staying in the pension system, but I love my new school and consider it a great trade.

As for teacher quality, I work with a higher caliber of teachers at the private. They’re more passionate, more willing to put in the long hours necessary to be an effective teacher, and more professional. That being said, I’m commenting on only two schools. My experience could have been vastly different if I worked somewhere else. Perhaps I was just at a poorly-run public school? You can’t answer this question definitively because there are simply too many variables. [/quote]

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