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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] Are you calling me a liar? I am the PP you responded to here. I assure you what I posted is true. I didn't say it's true for every teacher, I said it is true for me. When my kids were younger, I was happy to trade that 20% salary for more time with them. Now, I tutor during the extra hours and make up the difference. [/quote] In my 15+ years of teaching in private schools, unfortunately I have come across plenty of parents like the PP. They give you the "oh, little Johnny loves your class" to your face, but it's quite obvious that they look at you and see someone who has "lack(s) better options". After all, who would dream of CHOOSING to be in a low-paying profession? Money is king, of course. Sad, really.[/quote]
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