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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Oh come on. This is ridiculous. Most independent schools in this area are outstanding. It's ridiculous to presume that teacher freedom has really back fired. Being highly educated and knowledgeable in your subject is pretty amazing and frankly beats the teacher certification (which I have), which mostly involved studying common sense, like students respond better to positive reinforcement rather than negative words. No shit. If you need to be told that, you are in the wrong field.[/quote]

Very few people plan to become private school teachers. [/quote]

I'm not sure what this means.  Every private school teacher I know applied for the job, and then accepted the job.  So, I have to assume that they planned to be there.

I started my career student teaching in private school, but planning to eventually work in public school.  Which I did, and did well.  But I was also burning the candle at both ends, and spending a lot of my emotional energy on worrying about and advocating for kids who needed that.  A few years ago, when it was clear that my own special needs kid needed more time and energy from me, I made a conscious decision to switch to private.  I wanted a smaller teaching load, and a job that was more contained.  In my new school, I'm exactly the same teacher.  My relationships with the kids are equally good.  I teach the same kinds of lessons, and give kids the same level of feedback.  But because I have less kids and less feedback to give (e.g. fewer papers to grade), and because my planning time is less likely to be interrupted by a kid's personal crisis, I go home earlier, and take less work home.  I also don't lie awake at night wondering if Johnny is physically safe.  When there's a snow day my first thought is "oooh sledding!" rather than "Will Paul have anything to eat?"

At another point in my life, I might go back to public.  Maybe when I've got (God willing) college tuition to pay.  But for right now, the $15K pay cut I took is a worthwhile trade off.

Does that count as "planning to become a private school teacher"? [/quote]

Doesn't the public teacher pension and (lifetime) healthcare benefits makes it a night & day comparison? Public teachers only need 20 (or 25?) years to retire with a large % of their pension and lifetime health care, right?[/quote]

I teach in a VA public school. With 20 years I was 42 years old. Perhaps I was technically able to retire but the VRS benefits would have been greatly reduced. Maybe a few hundred dollars a month? It would have been a far cry from a "large %".  I will be eligible for unreduced VRS benefits at age 52 with 30 years.

As far as lifetime healthcare benefits, sure we get those as long as we pay for them after we retire. That's no different from what anyone else can do. Just pay the premiums.[/quote]

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