Another school year has begun. It’s another year that I’m grateful to have left public education.
From the outside, it doesn’t make much sense for me to have left. I had a good reputation in my district among staff, students, and administration. The pay at public schools is markedly better. And being a private school teacher makes you something of an outcast among teacher colleagues — never quite “one of us.”
I did not leave because of the standard accusation — that I couldn’t “handle it.” In many ways, my private school jobs have been far more…
See the full article by Dan Buck, August 31, 2022