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Why I am leaving after year 1 - Elementary Teacher Gaston County Schools Employee Review

2.0
28 May 2022
Recommend
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Pros

The people I worked with were great, the academic facilitators were extremely helpful, and the students were the absolute best part of the job.

Cons

Too much work for the pay: - additional "mandatory trainings" rolled out throughout the school year with no additional compensation. You were asked to complete these hours of trainings during your contract hours, which if you are an educator you know is impossible, they just aren't allowed to legally ask you to complete this work on your personal time, yet we all know it is implied. - meetings each week that could be emails, but rather they take up your planning time, leaving you with only 2 or 3 (30-40 min) increments a week to lesson plan, read through instruction materials, print materials, etc. (and get those mandatory trainings done as well) - I was always told things would "let up" throughout the year, but it never happened. Everything was full speed ahead. Once you checked one thing off your list, 3 new things were added. - The list could go on and on, and I am a very organized person who enjoys completing tasks and staying organized, and the entire school year I felt as though I was drowning in unattainable expectations, leaving me to stay late, take work home, and not feeling like myself at the end of the day with no energy left for myself/family/friends.

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5.0
2 Mar 2025
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Pros

Staff are caring overall. Full time interpreters available

Cons

Former director had little knowledge of our program and was not very supportive of us. She is gone now though.

3.0
15 June 2026
Recommend
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Pros

good admin, summers basically off

Cons

very low pay, district looses money every year

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