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Hello fellow teachers! I live in New Jersey right now and have been researching moving to North Carolina for the past 2 years. I was looking into the research triangle district, but a friend that just moved to Apex cries to me daily!!! Although she loves the area, she claims that teaching has been a huge nightmare!! She is asked to work through her lunch, has meetings during many of her preps, has to stay after the school day to do random paperwork and test bubbling, and had to take about a $25k pay cut from New Jersey pay! Is this all true!!! And there are no teacher unions to stick up for your rights!? Is this everywhere in North Carolina!? I now started looking into the Charlotte area instead. Is it the same there too? I don't know what to do. Please help me with some truthful answers. Thank you.
Karen C North Carolina politics has been taken over by right-wing politics who view public education as a financial drain and want to privatize it. There are no teachers unions in North Carolina because it is illegal for teachers to join unions. It is the same all over the state of North Carolina. NC did elect a Democratic governor, but the republican legi...See More
Oct 16, 2017
Carolinagrad83 Melissa, be sure to look at the NC salary scale before you decide. In addition to the info provided by Karen (and every word of it is true), the jackals in our General Assembly have capped the salary scale at $51,000. Unless they change it in the next budget, in 2018-19, a 15 year teacher will make about $130 less/month than a 30 year teacher. If y...See More
Jan 9, 2018


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