If you can afford it, try a small private school
Yes, it pays significantly less, but so far it has been an amazing experience for me.
For one thing, class sizes in my school are smaller. Some teachers have as few as 12 students.
Parents are responsive to emails. They care about the education of their child.
Kids will be kids, so they get talkative, but we don’t have any kids that are disrespectfully disruptive.
We have a few kids with accommodations, but no special students that are glaringly in the wrong educational setting altogether (nobody that belongs in Life Skills).
I work at a Catholic school so people there seem genuinely nice. Of course there are differences in personality, but you don’t have that extremely negative teammate that makes everything difficult.
I also get to go to church and listen to a beautiful children’s choir once a week.
We have fewer resources and our facilities are older, but our admin genuinely cares for the staff and does their best to help us as much as they can.
This is what imagined teaching would be when I first started out.
For my mental, physical, emotional and spiritual health, the pay cut was worth it.