The interview opened emphasizing the necessity of using time wisely, and dove into the interview asking about how strict my teachers were in my K-12 education. She then had me roleplay a scenario in which I had to discipline a student for talking, and decribed the schools' "consequence" disciplinary system. She corrected my answers until I was being verbally aggressive to the hypotehtical student. The interviewer didn't ask about my education or experience, it was exclusively about discipline; I was clearly uncomfortable and the interviewer asked if I could handle the classroom disciplinary policies, in which I told her I was not interesting in speaking to children like she had instructed. She closed my application.

I received a random message on LinkedIn from a recruiter. We had a call where they went over interview prep and scheduled the meeting. They asked pretty standard questions. Teaching experience, why teaching and why this specific academy, a time where you dealt with a difficult situation or person, how do you take constructive criticism then a simulated situation where they give you a scenario about ‘difficult’ parents and kids.