What are the pros and cons of being the sole teaching staff at a school?
Pros is never having to deal with bells, and always being able to work on flex time. Even though we do start and end at certain times and we have posted recess times, in reality if the kids are engaged in an activity they can continue until they are done. In another school, when the bell rings—they’re gone, you can’t bring them back. Same thing, if they’ve done an assignment they might have 15–20 minutes spare time which is fill in—here recess can come early. The ability to actually play with the date and cater to where the kids are at is huge. It is not the interrupted flow you have in other schools. The fact that there is one class, without competition as to who gets the gym or the computer room and we have control over each room, the kids get to really take ownership of the school. The cons of not having someone else there, is that there is no one to bounce ideas off, or when you really need a break from a kid there is no where to send them. In a regular school if a child is having
