Private School Impressions
Check out hipteacher’s impressions of the differences between teaching in private versus public schools. I’d say they’re dead on, based on my own experience.
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My dad attended a one room school in a small Montana town. When he went to High School (in town) he said school was boring, he dropped out after 9th grade. But he continued to self educate himself.
I taught at a private school for 4 years. I was grossly underpaid (I made exactly 1/2 of what public school pays), but they were the only one that called. I was able to build a program there felt successful at what I did. If the administration had not changed I might have stayed forever.