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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]At our private our teachers have very small class sizes and well supported students.  They also have flexibility to adapt the curriculum to suit the class' needs.  Their professional development opportunities are amazing and provide observable benefits to their students.  I chaperoned a field trip and one of the teachers who planned it told me she had applied to our school for several years in a row knowing full well that there were no advertised openings.  Her hope was that when an opening became available, she would be considered since the school would know of her dedicated interest.  We have very little turnover in the teaching and admin staff.[/quote]

Do you know anything about their pay and benefits?[/quote]

No, I don't.  [b]They seem to be pretty happy with their jobs and when I meet and talk with them in parent teacher conferences[/b], they "get" my kid.  I support the teacher appreciation fundraising and provide whatever I can of what I am asked to do to support them because I think so highly of them.  [/quote]

No professional, responsible teacher is going to complain about their job with you, or speak about their school in a negative way at a parent teacher conference (or anywhere else).  I've been a teacher in independent schools for over a decade, and I did once work for an utterly miserable, bullying, ineffective admin in one of these schools.  I used to cry every day after work, and had to go on antidepressants that year.  However, every parent with whom I interacted would have seen a positive, composed professional who did not discredit the school in any way.  They would have walked out thinking I was happy with my job because it would have been massively unprofessional and inappropriate for me to indicate otherwise.  You know nothing about how happy your kid's teachers are in their jobs.  [/quote]

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