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Teaching in Cabarrus County is enjoyable.  The school I work in is very dedicated to excellence for the students who attend.  The teachers work hard to make it a safe and fun environment within which to learn.
A normal day for me: Come in around 6:30 am to prepare lessons for the day and have the room ready for students arriving at 7:45 am. After school I either attend committee meetings, staff development, staff meetings, tutor, or grade papers and plan for the next days activities and leave around 5:30 - 6:00 pm. May still work at home, depending on time constraints at work.
The administrators have a difficult job keeping parents and teachers happy, but they seem to manage well enough.
Co-workers are great and I try to stay away from conflicts.
The hardest part of the job is staying ahead of the students' needs, and coping with state and federal changes that affect my teaching.
The students are my favorite part of the job.  Seeing their faces light up when they suddenly realize they KNOW what they have just heard and can reproduce their learning with a product of their own.

As a new employee at my school, I did not receive the necessary support to succeed and work according to my full potential. The administration of my school, and another school I have interviewed with is entirely unprofessional and unapologetic for being that way. I have made multiple attempts to work with administration on issues in my school and am met with no help or even concern as well as the demonstration of bias for employees.  During an interview at another school (Patriot’s Elementary), the Principal was actually texting/emailing when I walked in for the interview and didn’t even bother getting up to shake my hand.  He also was texting/emailing while we were having the interview.  So unprofessional!  I can’t believe my child is actually a student under that administration.  TA's are treated as second-class citizens and not given equal treatment or respect. I had wanted to get my certification and be a teacher, but I have quickly realized how toxic the work environment can be within Cabarrus County Schools and have decided not to become a teacher for fear that this is just how public school systems operate.

Teachers are reminded often, it's for the kids. Just a manipulative way to help teachers endure horrible working conditions, lack of resources, poor leaders who only became leaders because they couldn't control their own classroom environments. Cab Co Schools is no different than any other public education system. Work plus "mandatory volunteer" (Involuntary) hours. Poor health and horrific dental benefits. No time for family, especially when a you are a single parent, or a family of educators. A strong lack of compassion and respect except for 1 week a year where they try to stroke our ego for personal and professional gain. There are no advancement opportunities and no discussion about advancement. The mark of great leaders is the development of staff. It is apparent we have very few great leaders. The overall culture is abysmal and it is very sad. The hardest part of the job is when you lose a student to death and there are no resources available to you and you just have to keep trucking on as if nothing has changed. It is beyond me how this school district goes to out of state recruiting events and successfully draws in new talent.

Working at Central Cabarrus high never felt like work. I always feel like I was on vacation. Students and staff are great. In that environment you feel like you are at home. Every day at work is like a family get together.

I learned to enjoy life more. I loved my students and staff. Management make you feel like you want to stick around and not want to work anywhere else. My coworkers were fun. The best staff I have ever hang out with, hence the reason I left 2009 and returned 2013.

The hardest part of work was feeling helpless when there is not enough of my time to give to my students. The most enjoyable part of my job was labs. The students loved either being involved in making a food product or watching me demonstrate. Watching them create a dish and then eat what was created and the look of enjoyment on their faces is priceless.

The fact that I did not have to share labs with another class made classes more enjoyable. There was enough time to be creative and have fun creating new dishes.

Cabarrus County schools is a great place to work. In a typical day at my job, I would help assist my teacher with any items that might need to be photocopied for the day. She and I would have 3 reading/Math groups together where we taught different levels of our students. I would often have to take sick kids to see the nurse to see if they needed to go home for the day. The hardest part of my day would be the many different "hats" I would have to wear during a typical  day as a Teacher Assistant. The most enjoyable part of my job would be seeing that one particular child who just needed that extra help with a problem, and I would lean down to assist the student. He/she would look up to me and say" Your are the best teacher in the world", I love you! That would make my heart melt every time! It makes my job worth it! And that's why I would LOVE going back each day!

It was a very paced environment.  I opened the kitchen and would start all the equipment and begin to cook breakfast for about 250 students.  I served daily, if there were deliveries that day I would get them checked in and put away.  When my staff would come in I would go over with them any changes for the day and get them started.  I had a staff of 10 wonderful women.  I had daily paper work that needed to be done, planning meals for the next day or days to follow, helping any staff members that needed it.  If I was short staff members then I would be on the floor working their position for the day and trying to fit in my work at the end without out going over on my allotted time.  There were days were I may have up to 3 staff members not in, those were rough days, but me and with the help of my amazing women we would get through. Working with my staff and talking with the students were always good timew.

A typical day of work consists of 3 hours of classroom intervention with low performing students. I perform approximately 2 hours of clerical work for 18 teachers, which includes making classroom copies of specified lessons. I've learned to be patient and empathetic to elementary school aged children. Management has always run smoothly. I couldn't ask for better co-workers. They are my friends and I enjoy working with them immensely. My job is not difficult and I wish it was more challenging. The most enjoyable part of my job is seeing children's faces when they understand what you are teaching them and it finally clicks. I love the children.

Clock in, turn on equipment. Go over paper work for the day. Depend on the day might had to do food order or take care of the food.
Learned things everyday working in school, with the students, staff and parents.
Management most of them were there to work side by side with you, all work toward the goals that county set/or Child Nutrition set.
These were great people, I miss them and we all stay in touch
Giving a worker a correction, when there was a problem. I did it even know I always think postive most people always take them as a negative.
Giving worker postives about themself and their work, see smiles on students faces, staff stoping by and saying thank you for all the hard work you and your staff do.

Working as a teacher is hard no matter what. There are big advantages to being in a comparatively smaller school district alongside CMS. You will get much more attention and care. We have a big problem with staffing, as many do. This leads to being very stressed out. Each teachers needs a full-time teacher assistant, especially in K-2 and we don't have that. We don't have many EC teachers right now, as a county, and none in my school. 

The best part of my job is my wonderful co-workers for the most part. The hardest part of the job is the constant work with very poor pay and lack of support in terms of people in the building who can offer support. 



Was given job as long term sub for 3rd grade class. When I started the first day, they surprised me by telling me I had the class full of IOP and behavioral
Issue students. That would have been fine but I was not a licensed teacher; I was on my alternate route path to getting certified. Not only was I not told ahead of time, but I wasn’t equipped with the ways of how to handle this which was not fair to the students either. 

There was no guidance, no help. The teachers were like high school kids and left me out of conversations at lunch. The education overall in the state was abysmal having grown up in New Jersey. It was a sad
And terrible experience for both students and myself.

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