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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The grass almost always looks greener on the other side.

I've heard that reading specialist positions might be a bit more flexible compared to a full time classroom teacher position.

And SLPs have to deal with IEP meetings frequently too which can take a lot of time.

I got the impression that MCPS was shrinking it's allocation to ESOL somehow.  Which personally doesn't make sense to me as that's one of the struggling populations that affects the overall numbers for MCPS.

Some of the other positions mentioned, such as gym, art, etc, you have to be careful about because if there are ever any funding issues, they may be the first on the chopping block.

Also it's not necessarily my point of view and am repeating what someone else said.  But to illustrate the view about the grass looks greener on the other side, I've heard some people mention that elementary school teachers don't really do anything more than babysitting.  Where as previous poster mentioned, once you hit middle school student performance in passing benchmarks/tests are looked at more closely.  Again not my point of view.  I've also heard some things that says a student's academic success or track is determined in the third grade.  But the point is, that there are some that would say ES teaching jobs are pretty easy.[/quote]

I have never heard anyone say elementary teaching job are easy and if they did they are insane. It takes hours and hour of time at home each week to plan for teaching lol of those different subjects, not to mention that lnguge arts and math tend to be in centers, so that's several more activities to plan right there. I know several people who have switched from elementary to secondary and say that can't believe how much lighter the workload is. [/quote]

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