I started in charter and I was constantly depressed and upset with our higher ups. Thankfully we started kindergarten and grew every year, which made it difficult. Teacher turnover is so high because they overwork you in your hours. I did get to see my principal often. We had to create long lesson plans for the grade, where each one teacher in the grade planned a subject. We also had co teachers to manage our 28 kids and we split subjects based on ela/stem. The biggest problem was the pay and the lack of support when there were absences. No payment for covering a class. My school was k-4 and we were in from 7:45-4:00. We also didn't have library or art! So we rotated specials and would have blended learning days on the computer. Everything was super structured and especially for my kindergarteners, it was like military school. They needed to be quiet, we even enforced the color system for behaviors for the school 🤦🏻‍♀️ every day you had to fill out a report to send home to families they showed their behavior, if they were in uniform, if the signed the report, and if they completed homework. This turned into scholar dollars that would help them get to a school incentive. So many meltdowns! I'm in public now, and it's such a difference in everything that I do. All in all, I wouldn't recommend charter especially because they don't protect you as a teacher.

I feel so very lucky to teach at a public school in Minnesota. I have a 50 minute prep each day and a 30 minute duty free lunch. Teaching these days is not easy but I love my school and the staff and admin is top notch.

@nayelietorres2817

2 жыл бұрын

This gives me a lot of hope

Great video! I'm working at a charter and I am miserable! There is no support, especially for new teachers. My team teacher quit last month and I'm trying so hard to stay but I plan on applying at a public school during the next hiring cycle.

I experienced time restraints in public schools. When we would have our 40 minute planning time, we would have PLC meetings, collaboration either whole or grade level. Discipline was a joke from leadership and we NEVER got incentives whether financial or anything.

Thank u for making this video; very helpful resource.

I’m currently finishing my bachelors in elementary education. The first school I worked at as a after school teacher made me miserable. Admin sucked and I was surrounded by toxic people. The second school I worked at, I didn’t fit in as it was a very prestigious charter school (tuition being 1,300 a month) and I wasn’t from the area therefore I didn’t fit in to the school culture. Both were charter schools, i hope once i finish my bachelors I go to a public school and find a school where I fit in and feel welcomed.

Thank you Hannah!

I’m in Mississippi and we have no union. I have to eat lunch with the kids, I only get 30 minutes for planning if I even get it and we always have meetings during planning😩

I worked at one charter school and it was absolutely awful and in my last year working in charter schools I worked at a Montessori charter that was absolutely amazing. It’s kinda sad because some charter schools are great and others are not good

I can tell from your posts and this video which company you are talking about. I currently work for them in a different state. I relate SO MUCH to their issues you are talking about. It is so difficult when the curriculum is horrible and they are only concerned about getting money.

@MishaStarlene

2 жыл бұрын

I work for them too in Michigan. When she said driveline I knew. Then When she said Dean and reading off the scripts I really knew lol

Thank you so much. My wife and I are trying to decide for our kids

We switched our son and daughter from public to private and honestly it’s the difference between amateur sports and professional sports. We have friends who went the charter route and they said it’s definitely not private but it is definitely a step above public.

@missmaryjanegreen

2 жыл бұрын

Glad your friend found a good charter school however they are not created equal. There are some absolutely awful ones out there.

You can't let your failures define you. You have to let your failures teach you.

FYI…NC is a Right to Work state. You will not find a traditional teachers’ union and you will not hear of teachers being in a union. I teach in NC and I’ve brought it up with other teachers and have been told that I can be a part of a union but you won’t find a traditional teachers union. Not sure how to even find one to be a part of but I think NEA or NCEA is essentially a union? I’m a new teacher so I’m not sure. I work in a public school and I worked in a charter school the end of the last school year. No buses, we had set curriculum, though our phonics changed a bit each month to become more SoR. We used Wonders and other curriculum also found in public schools. I feel like there was a lot of support with curriculum specialists and the admin and the admin had a big presence. They sat in on our PD meetings and grade level planning meetings. If there was an issue with children or parents they were very supportive. I also had an assistant she had a 30 minute lunch break and I had a 30 min lunch break. We both had the 30 minutes during specials to discuss what was happening in the classroom and plan together as a team, though like you said I usually had meetings during that time. But our assistants took our students out to the playground so I did actually have a 30 min planning time. Total the teachers at the charter school had 1.5 hours away from the students to eat plan and meet. We had meetings after school once every 2/3 months I believe and that was with all 3 school levels (they have elementary, middle, and high schools). At the public school I am with my students ALL DAY. Our planning time is during specials once a day for 30 minutes but we have PLC once a week during that time and the specials are in our classrooms so I have to find someplace to go so I can get out of the classroom. We eat in our classrooms with our students and we are outside with our students. Our meetings are after school though our principal employs memos more than meetings thankfully! I also feel like I have a lot of support from my principal and curriculum specialist but I know that is dependent on what school you teach in because I have friends that do not feel the same way. I love the school where I am but I also had a great charter school experience and I’m not ruling them out in the future. Also look at SC because they are so close, they have a higher pay rate, and they give you master’s pay as well.

Thanks for sharing! Glad to hear you would go back to a Public School. I always wondered why charters are so competitive: “butts in seats=$”. Charters obviously are NOT in the service business, their primary goal is to make money, not educate our kids. So sad lawmakers have allowed Charters to even exist.

Kids in charter schools I went to RIT(Rochester Institute of Technology) which has business, engineering, photography school laser school too! Also they computer engineering school hey have no CRT crap!

I'm just wondering if the charter schoold make u do handshakes cause that will give me so much anxiety

Did you kick the kitty out?!

I like the cat

How do you feel about the big workload that charter schools give vs lower performing public schools? My son attended a charter school in kindergarten. He learned so much . He came home always telling me what he learned however the workload was crucial. We were doing homework 6 days a week and a project once a month. No recess either. Sometimes it felt impossible to keep up but we made it through. We had to put him in public school and i can tell a difference in his performance and behavior. He’s not as motivated and eager to learn. How do I find a good balance? Do you think kids really need so much work to be a successful scholar???

@GB-st2vq

Жыл бұрын

I had the same experience as you, sometimes de digress.

Hi Hannah, in your experience which environment would you suggest for an autistic child?

@katereo5989

2 жыл бұрын

I would be curious to know as well especially for high functioning and ADHD.

@missjoanie4884

Жыл бұрын

Charters school tend to be more picky with enrollment. And from what I learned that they have a reputation for choosing students to help with their standards

@KariMelander

Жыл бұрын

@@missjoanie4884 They don´t choose students. They use a lottery system for admission.

I have taught in New York, Charlotte and have been in Wake County for years now...You do know that there are NO UNIONS in NC? NC is a "right to work" state, which ironically means that they can fire you without any kind of recourse....Hope you teach beyond Covid, because that is not representative of a real teaching experience. And the NCAE is not a union, more like an advocacy organization.

@taramackey7189

2 жыл бұрын

I was thinking the same thing.

Let me guess…..NHA? Sounds like it to me.

@MishaStarlene

2 жыл бұрын

I knew it when she said driveline, Dean and reading off the famous script lol

White women *sigh*

@michellenash301

Жыл бұрын

WOW lmao 😂🤣😂🤣🤣🤣

I’m working at a charter school just outside of Charlotte 🫢🫢🫢