Should I completely rule out the DISD for teaching?

[GreyDay]

House calls for doctors? I cringe at the possible exposure to litigation just by entering someone's home. Also, hospital fees make up most of the costs patients see. Outside of plastics or purely elective surgery, most insurances set a fee schedule per procedure.

Jobs pay what the market will bear. I didn't get into medicine for the money. I would've done I-banking like the other 1/3 of my class. Teaching is noble and necessary, but it's not the most lucrative field. Better off working on a left handed slider...

[crankywithakeyboard]

I'm not sure what the quote at the bottom of this post means. Do you mean that you can't spot an opening on a district's website, apply to the website and email the principal, be called and interviewed by the principal and be offered that job at that school?

Are you saying that as far as you know everything goes through the central district and that they are the only ones who decide who goes to each school? That principals don't make these decisions?

It happened to me exactly as noted in my first paragraph in Dallas ISD, Houston ISD and other districts as well. I ended up quitting teaching (for a whole host of reasons too numerous to list here) instead of taking the DISD job but got hired in exactly this manner several times in my 17 years of teaching.

If I weren't disgusted with the whole system and had not quit teaching, I certainly wouldn't just discount Dallas ISD. My greatest students (and the best teaching of my career) were at a very, very inner city magnet school in Houston ISD.

Urban and suburban districts all have their problems. Just different ones.

Originally Posted by Texan2008

Too bad you can't ask and be granted (after a decent interview of course) to be put in a certain school with an opening..never heard of that happening with any past teaching colleague of mine.

[CREW747]

The teaching profession has certainly changed in the past decade.Texas class sizes will be getting larger and budgets will continue to be stretched.Disd is a difficult district to be in.do some research and you will find many articles explaining the disaray the district has been in for years.We could talk about the challenges of teachibg all day.A family friend of ours has a daughter who thought she was finally done with school and disappointed that she majored in teaching.After 2 years at a private school in dallas and 1 year at irving isd she has explqined that both extremes are not challenging.She is getting ready to go back and get a degree in something else.Teaching is losing lustre for many and the ones who reqlly suffer are the kids.$40,000 to deal with some of the stuff she has mentioned would not be worth it to me.Colleges also need to stop telling people that there are many teaching jobs available because there are not.Increasing class sizes will make even less available.Since it is difficult to get hired anywhere right now (unless your hs math/science/special ed) do not rule out Disd.