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Horrible Place to Work - Teacher Wake County Public Schools Employee Review

1.0
Oct 30, 2014
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Pros

The other teachers are great.

Cons

Mistreated constantly, overworked, underpaid, not allowed to teach, it's all about the test, students are merely data points and teachers who teach to the test drive students to hate school. Over and over the county took advantage of teachers and allowed principals to take advantage of loop holes in contracts such as the working day is over only "until your duties end". WCPSS killed the joy of teaching for me and I finally left after 10 years and giving my soul to them. Now in the private sector my family finally gets some of my time and I make more money. I miss teaching, but they scripted it all and made everyone the same anyway so it was not longer enjoyable.

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5.0
May 13, 2026
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Pros

- Supportive Working Environment - Incredible Colleagues - Caring Leadership - Lack of Gaslighting

Cons

- Pay dictated by NC State Legislature - Disparity amongst schools - So much rides on how individual school’s administration is

2.0
Jun 28, 2026
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Pros

Lengthy time off and decent benefits.

Cons

Very little support. Very challenging students and colleagues. The pay is awful and the state of NC has a very bad situation with its government. Students get away with a lot with no recourse and teachers have too many students in pretty poor working conditions. If I hadn't started teaching decades ago, I wouldn't be doing it. I definitely would not recommend young people to go into this profession in its current iteration.

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