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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]BFF teaches HS private in the DC area (not at a big 3).  She has a Phd in her subject and makes $80k.  She gets about  50% tuition assistance for her son.

She laments about benefits but likes the ability to teach in a more collegiate manner than having to teach to specific standards.[/quote]

Exactly. Private school teachers can TEACH without the bureaucracy, testing requirements, and behavior problems that often plague public schools.[/quote]

Yeah.  But now, at 39, I'm starting to regret the romantic idealism that shaped my early choices in schools.  I've had great students and worked in lovely settings, but I am starting to worry about what my future will look like.  I'll have good memories of my students and my job, but that isn't much to live on when I'm old.

I know that my students' wealthy parents realize how little I earn, but they value my dedication to their children and my job .  However, I've been teaching long enough to have heard multiple high school students (and parents) speak disparagingly about my profession; [b]I know the same parents who pay tuition so their children can be in the classrooms of poor, "dedicated" teachers who love teaching would never, ever encourage their children to become teachers. [/b] I didn't realize this when I was younger.

I know, I know.  This might mean it is time to reconsider my professional trajectory and choices.  [/quote]

Their parents don't need to say anything. All the kids need to do, as they pull into the lot driving the BMW convertible that daddy bought them, is look at the crappy cars the teachers drive.[/quote]

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