NationStates Jolt Archive

Once again the subject of my returning to the US has bubbled up to the surface (those who know me may remember previous similar topics.)

This time it seems to be the most serious - I've been getting more and more unhappy with my current employer (as certain previous threads over the last few years may have indicateds) and there's actually a very serious chance I may return ti the US in the next year or so.

I'd likely be looking for some sort of elementary ed. position in the midwest (that's the level I want to teach and I'd like to be near my family in Iowa).

So, who's a teacher back home in the US and what can you tell me about it?

Once again the subject of my returning to the US has bubbled up to the surface (those who know me may remember previous similar topics.)

This time it seems to be the most serious - I've been getting more and more unhappy with my current employer (as certain previous threads over the last few years may have indicateds) and there's actually a very serious chance I may return ti the US in the next year or so.

I'd likely be looking for some sort of elementary ed. position in the midwest (that's the level I want to teach and I'd like to be near my family in Iowa).

So, who's a teacher back home in the US and what can you tell me about it?

Katganistan is a teacher in the Big Apple, I believe. I have a feeling that it could be high school, but I'm not sure.

Katganistan is a teacher in the Big Apple, I believe. I have a feeling that it could be high school, but I'm not sure.

Yep, I knew that. ;) I was hoping for a wider net (otherwise I'd have simply TGed Kat. ;))

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I have the degrees and a buttload of hours in the public school system before I came to Japan for JET, but I was secondary ed (Jr high, high school).

Did you have a particular question?

Don't go to public school in the US, they're all prayer-haters in them public schools, dawg.

Once again the subject of my returning to the US has bubbled up to the surface (those who know me may remember previous similar topics.)

This time it seems to be the most serious - I've been getting more and more unhappy with my current employer (as certain previous threads over the last few years may have indicateds) and there's actually a very serious chance I may return ti the US in the next year or so.

I'd likely be looking for some sort of elementary ed. position in the midwest (that's the level I want to teach and I'd like to be near my family in Iowa).

So, who's a teacher back home in the US and what can you tell me about it?Wait your from Iowa? Damn, I'm so tempted to make a crack about "Iwegians", but I can't think of any ones that fit:( ;)

I have the degrees and a buttload of hours in the public school system before I came to Japan for JET, but I was secondary ed (Jr high, high school).

Did you have a particular question?

Just general stuff for now.

Don't go to public school in the US, they're all prayer-haters in them public schools, dawg.

:p

Wait your from Iowa? Damn, I'm so tempted to make a crack about "Iwegians", but I can't think of any ones that fit:( ;)

From Texas originally, but I escaped to Japan while the rest of my immediate family made there wayt to Iowa, via New Mexico or Louisiana.

From Texas originally, but I escaped to Japan while the rest of my immediate family made there wayt to Iowa, via New Mexico or Louisiana.

Oh, Texas I guess thats a little better than Iowa;)

Oh, Texas I guess thats a little better than Iowa;)

I'm thinking Chicago or Minneapolis at the moment, but open to other places (close being relative).

I'm thinking Chicago or Minneapolis at the moment, but open to other places (close being relative).

Where in Iowa are they? Nothing specific just like what area, North, east, west? Anyway whatever you do don't come here public teacher pay here sucks balls, its around the bottom five in the country last I heard.

why back to the US?
why not try your hand elsewhere in Asia. There's plenty of jobs around if you look.

come to Hawaii. then your family will have a GOOD reason to come visit you during the winter! :D

come to Hawaii. then your family will have a GOOD reason to come visit you during the winter! :D
so would the rest of us! :p