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No real training. If you "fell into" teaching/came from another field, this is a good way to get classroom experience and decide whether teaching children is really an avenue you think you'd like. If you have passionate views about what education should or shouldn't be, this isn't the place for you. Management has no such views, seemingly. It's a business to them. They have beliefs about how to keep their bottom line from drying up and how to maintain nationally-recognized test scores. Outside of that, they don't care. You're a warm body to them, completely disposable, regardless of your qualifications. They retain students who are disrespectful, lazy, and apathetic and blame the teachers for their poor scores. It's easier to do that than anger parents. They're all about their public image to an unhealthy and unjust level. You have zero support as an educator. Plus, the infrastructure is atrocious. Everything is falling apart, from mechanical things, to electronics, to doorknobs, to toilets. We're packed like sardines into a tiny joke of a building. Wildly underfunded.

Overworking teachers and making them lose $240 to take a sick day is unacceptable. Expecting teachers to bring in their own chairs so students have a place to sit is unreasonable. Expecting teachers to teach in four different classrooms or a gym is setting staff up for failure. Promotions are based on who likes who, not skill, ability, or effort, which promotes a toxic work culture.