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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I disagree with the PP.  Many times, you might be stuck in the first school you work at due to difficulty transferring.  My friend accepted a position at a really crappy school because school was just about to start and she needed a job.  She has been stuck in that school for nearly 10 years.  After her second year, she applied to transfer and has applied every year since then.  She is still stuck there.  Choose wisely.[/quote]

I don't see how that's possible if she's in MCPS.  After two years, she can apply for open positions anywhere (not to be transferred, but to be hired by a new school).  I have been involved in the hiring process at several levels, and we have hired teachers from "bad" schools that have worked out quite well.  Does you friend teach a really specific or overpopulated subject area, like elementary art or secondary social studies?

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If your friend is still in the same school after 10 years and hasn't been able to get out, that's on her. Either she's not interviewing well or she's a sub-par teacher and her principal isn't "passing the trash" with a good reference because s/he has to look colleagues in the eye. [/quote]

She ended up quitting because she couldn't stand it anymore. She taught 1st grade. Lots of teachers just up and quit from her school (not FCPS). This is an inner city school. [/quote]

OP is looking to teach in MCPS.  If she starts off in a school that she does not like, there is opportunity to move on eventually, apparently unlike your friend, who was in a completely different situation.[/quote]

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