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If you have the ability to rent for a year, I would. Then you can really figure out what part of the area you would like to live in, i.e. Southwest Raleigh, ITB (inside the beltline), Cary North Raleigh. Much easier to figure out what areas appeal to you on a day to day basis when you are actually here. Plus, depending on where you find a job, you can adjust where you ultimately end up and avoid all that soul-destroying traffic (there isn't much here now but it is getting busier and certain areas are more soul-destroying than others).
Look around a little more. There are plenty of small houses near NC State for rent that would put you pretty central to lots of things and be a good base point for a year.
Know anyone hiring former special education teachers?
Do you have the qualifications to go into private practice? EG, private speech or occupational therapy? I also suspect one could make a fortune doing ABA therapy for autistic kids. This board has seen many requests for help with kids on the autism spectrum.
It might be worth taking the time to get additional certification if the wife can support you both.
HIGHLY recommend Garner. Half the cost of Cary, 10 minutes from downtown Raleigh, and 15 minutes from NC State. Bigger lots, and all the perks of living in Raleigh without paying to live there.
I don't want to teach SPED anywhere, but I'm curious, what's so bad about SPED in Raleigh?
LOL, it's not Raleigh, it's just the district. the kids were great-loved them, but they have way less people to do the jobs and way more paperwork due to less people.
For example, I did resource and would have to provide individualized instruction to 15 kids in 3 grade levels on 3 different subjects all at the same time because of the shortage of sped teachers. Then, ALL of the referrals are done by the special ed teachers. Where I came from, that was another person's job as it is a LOT of work, paperwork, reports,etc that kept me up late into the nights, neglecting my own kids. We had two other "behind the scenes" sped positions where I came from: the diagnostic teacher and spec ed supervisor. they did the paperwork, initial meetings etc for all referrals and re-evals. Here, the special ed teachers do all that and we had over 25 referrals in one school year.
Add to that that every kid that has ADHD or doesnt make adequate progress gets referred these days, the referrals just keep going up. My son's school (we are not in WAKE but Johnston Co) has the same issues and they have gone through sped teachers like crazy and continually have subs in the resource rooms. Caseloads are about 30 kids and many kids have a huge percentage of the day in the resource room. It is just very different, and draining.
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