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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Speaking with some experience in this area, it is much easier to be enthusiastically on board with the school's mission and community when your family can be part of it as well. Alternatively, it can be disheartening to be part of providing a much better education to the children in your school than you can provide for your own children. The former is good for the school and the latter is bad.[/quote]

I agree with this. Seems to beg the question why more don't. How can you not strive to offer your service to your own employees? I personally found it a selling point when visiting schools and learning that the teachers kids also attended. That tells me they believe in what the school is doing. I could imagine teachers being resentful that they have to teach other people's kids this great curriculum and can't provide it for their own kids. If a school can offer FA to outsiders, why not one of their own? I can't imagine every teacher would even need the assistance because all aren't going to have school aged children at the same time.[/quote]

Oh but there's an amazing coincidence of teachers moving on once their last child graduates!  It really is effectively part of the compensation package.[/quote]

This is true, however teaching at a private school is really not a career choice that anyone plans for. This is obvious by the fact that certified teacher never choose to work there because the pay and benefits are so low. It really ends up being liberal arts grads who pi don't have better paying options that work there. [/quote]

I chose to teach private, even though I am fully certified in a high demand field. I left public because I wanted a job with more freedom and [b]reasonable hours.  [/b]

ETA, the only exceptions to this that I am familiar with are some teachers who chose to teach in religious schools due to their own deep religious convictions.  And even they had bread winner husbands.

Those are the talking points that private schools use to try to assure parents that yes, their teachers really want to work there despite horrendous pay and benefits; but I work in education and this is absolutely not true.  Private school teachers overwhelmingly are not certified teachers and for various reasons fell into teaching for lack of better options.  Although yes, it's quite possible that once they started teaching the enjoyed the work and decided to make a career out of it.  
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Lack of better options, like being senior partner at a law firm?  You give off this official air, like your opinion is unquestionable, but[b] your view has too many holes to count[/b].[/quote]

Why do private schools generally not have certified teachers working there?  The very people who actually choose to go into teaching as a career?  And believe me, the private schools want them.  They do recruit at education schools, but teacher graduates will generally only consider it as a temporary option if they haven't gotten a contract with a school district.  Why do private schools generally not list their teacher bios on their web pages? Probably because they don't want to publicly highlight the fact that they do not have certified teachers working there. [/quote]

Why do you assume that the parent populations at these schools are complete rubes?  Most of the parents at our school are capable at distinguishing between good teachers and those simply with a certificate.[/quote]

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