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[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] Being certified does not make one a better teacher. It simply means you passed a state test. After all look at the load of crappy teachers DCPS and PGCS have. Give me a break. Teaching and certification have very little do with each other. There is a reason teacher certification is not a required professional certification to hold yourself out as a teacher as is being a doctor, lawyer, CPA, etc. 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] 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. [/quote][/quote][/quote] Oh, you "work in education" do you? Do you have this much contempt for all educators, or only those at independent schools? I not only "work in education", I actually teach in a private school, so I feel quite qualified to say that your little screed is a whole lotta bullshit.[/quote] I do not have contempt for private school teachers, nor do I think that a great many of them aren't good at what they do regardless of not having teaching credentials. I do find it laughable that certain private school parents such as yourself (sorry, I don't believe for a second you teach at a private) have bought hook, line, and sinker the private school claim that teaching there is so appealing that their staff is willingly choosing to do so instead of making 25-50% more at a public [/quote]
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