Job Prospect for Elementary School Teachers

[lagigi]

California teachers are being laid off at an alarming rate right now, not being hired.

I would look into different outlets though, such as looking into an online charter school for homeschooling (K12.com is one of them...I use k12 for my kids and they are in need of teachers. The amount of families signing up for the program is higher each year).

I have about 8 friends that are teachers in the L.A and O.C school districts, and all but three were laid off right before this new school year. Sub jobs are just as hard to come by now as well because of this.

Good luck!!

[augusto29556]

Wow, I did not know that the situation in CA is very serious with numerous teacher laid offs and not being able to find suitable employment. I really have to thank ya'll for informing me about this issue. I will stay in South Carolina until I finish my master's degree in elementary administration while saving money to move there which I think it should get better by the time I finish completing it at The Citadel, it is a military college in Charleston, SC (which I highly recommend if you ever wanted to visit SC to check out the city). I do, however, have one more question. Once I receive my master's degree in 2-3 years, what areas in CA are affordable for teachers?

[Clarks]

Once I receive my master's degree in 2-3 years, what areas in CA are affordable for teachers?

I figure a good paying job is one that allows one to buy a house and a new car, not asking much there am I?

On a teacher's salary, that is near impossible.

You want to move to CA? Why? That is an important question and needs to be answered before affordability can be addressed. If you have watched "The Hills" and or the "Housewives of Orange County" and you figure that is the California you want, you are flat out of luck.

[augusto29556]

Clark,

With my master's degree I will become an elementary school principal or an assistant elementary school principal so I will not live on a teacher's salary, but on an administrator's salary. As far as my reason for the move, I just want to live at a place where it is exciting and more of a thirll to live, unlike SC. I also would like to move because personally I would like for my future family to enjoy living at the West Coast and for my future children to have opportunities that I do not have in SC.

F.Y.I. I watched documentaries about CA on youtube which gave a more personal look at it than a tv show.

[Clarks]

Personally I would rather golf in a lightning storm that be a Principal, I see no upside to being a Principal. Your salary will still be well under 100k, which is not much in Ca.

Your exciting and thrill etc is too general. California stretches a distance equivalent as from Pennsylvania to Florida and the Atlantic to mid Kentucky, the physical environment changes enormously, unlike the east. What will you find exciting and a thrill, living in ski and mountain bike country? Living in the coastal rain forest with the chance of seeing Wolverines? The big City? The Cosmopolitan City? The farm lands, the desert, etc.

The problem I see with many moving to California, is that they think the Los Angeles area is California, it is but a small part, and too many, the worst part.

What opportunities do you want for those future children?

Here is an example; you live in or near Alturas, your kids play soccer do rodeo and work cattle on the ranches, they grow up strong and capable.
Another; you live in or near Truckee, your kids play soccer, race mountain bikes, and Nordic race in the winter, they grow up strong and capable.
Another, you live in Bishop, your kids play soccer, hike and climb mountains all summer, and boulder in the Buttermilks and do ski mountaineering in the winter, they grow up strong and capable.
Another, you live on the central coast, your kids play soccer, sail, surf, hike, climb, mountain bike, ride horses, they grow up strong and capable.



I have some Carolina roots, you may be a cousin. My Mother is from a small town in NC, My Grandfather and Richard Petty's grandfather had adjoining farms, and worked together on projects that tended to avoid revenue agents.

[Floritar]

I do not want to be negative like every one else, but why would you assume that a masters would land you a principal or administrators position, I know many teachers and about half have Masters and they are still teachers, not principals or even assistant's. But yes many teachers obviously live all over CA and are doing fine, maybe not prosperous, but surviving. Nothing compares to the south for standard of living, getting the most for your money, though, except for some undesirable places in the rust belt.