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[quote=Anonymous]^PP who looked into teaching in NC before... I remember hearing that Charlotte-Mecklenburg budget was so bad that 30+ kids in a class wasn’t unusual... and a teacher told me they had more kids than chairs in their classroom but the school wouldn’t buy more chairs so the teacher just rotated which two students would not have a chair each week. The teacher pay in NC is abysmal so they don’t want to waste money on supplying everything themselves I guess. Would be hard to do when you have rent to pay.

I almost took a job working for Wake County then they were going to pay me as if I had a bachelors because they voted out master’s pay in 2013 but put that in the world’s tiniest letters on the bottom of their scale that has a column for master’s pay that looked okay for the COL but the bachelors pay was quite a bit less. Apparently you only get master’s pay if you got your degree before 2013- the year they voted out master’s pay in NC.

If you think retention of teachers is bad in VA you should see NC... at least Charlotte-Meck and Wake had jobs up all year back in 2018 when I was considering it. I even had an offer after a simple phone interview (then found out they wouldn’t honor my master’s degree which was a $5k difference that would be hard to take as someone who would’ve been renting alone). Because the environment is so poor for teachers, I think they attract a lot of new teachers from all over who need experience... kinda like how FCPS seems pretty transient with young teachers from NY, PA, and other NE states where the conditions are better so it’s really competitive to get a teaching job and retention is pretty good. I’m working with a few 30+ year teachers right now. In VA I felt old at 30 bc the teachers were so young! Younger teachers often have a lot to offer to the students but I just mention age to help illustrate retention issues. In many states teaching ends up being not so great so a lot of younger teachers do their time for experience so they can be hired elsewhere or they go into other professions.

I’m rambling. It interests me how different schools are in this country (between states and districts in each state and even between individual schools in the same district). But I just don’t think NC is going to be that much better (if better) than where you are now. Sorry but you should just do a ton of research before moving.[/quote]

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