This is her hometown. Like most females from here they never leave. She would have been working in this large vicinity for 30-40% in a private system with a corresponding smaller retirement. She investigated that.
Some of those speds are “high functioning autistics” and may be very very good at academics but dot’t respond to standard classroom settings or normal classroom stimuli. Wife had one such that she put in a corner of the room with a stack of books she changed out over the year she had him. The second grader aced all the performance tests at the end of the year but stalled in a normal classroom in third grade. She indirectly (directly would have got her fired) induced the parents to homeschool.
I understand why teachers go to the public schools. the unlimited taxpayer funds make them attractive.
But in the long run, being handcuffed to evil systems traps potential, of both the teacher and the student.
Until we kick out public schooling in this country we will have no chance of recovering and expanding our culture in a positive way.