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Table 74.New public school teachers' experiences working with students, school personnel, and parents: 1991 and 1992

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                               |Percent who found the first two years of teaching|Percent rating 2-year experience as very satifying
             Item              |_________________________________________________|__________________________________________________
                               |         |         |  Some   |  Some   |         |    School level       |    Presence of lower
                               |  Total  |  Very   |  what   |  what   |  Very   |_______________________|     income students
                               |         | satis-  | satis-  |unsatis- |unsatis- |Elemen- |Junior/| High |__________________________
                               |         |  fying  |  fying  |  fying  |  fying  |  tary  |middle |      |All/many| Some  |Few/none
_______________________________|_________|_________|_________|_________|_________|________|_______|______|________|_______|_________
               1               |    2    |    3    |    4    |    5    |    6    |   7    |   8   |  9   |   10   |  11   |   12
_______________________________|_________|_________|_________|_________|_________|________|_______|______|________|_______|_________
                               |         |         |         |         |         |        |       |      |        |       |
Your students .................|     100 |      70 |      27 |       2 |       1 |     78 |    60 |   60 |     70 |    66 |      75
Other teachers in your school .|     100 |      58 |      37 |       5 |   (\1\) |     62 |    58 |   47 |     56 |    54 |      68
Your principal ................|     100 |      48 |      37 |       9 |       4 |     53 |    49 |   38 |     45 |    45 |      61
Administrators other than your |         |         |         |         |         |        |       |      |        |       |
  principal ...................|     100 |      32 |      47 |      14 |       3 |     34 |    33 |   28 |     32 |    29 |      40
Parents .......................|     100 |      25 |      48 |      18 |       7 |     34 |    16 |   11 |     18 |    25 |      43
_______________________________|_________|_________|_________|_________|_________|________|_______|______|________|_______|_________

\1\Less than 0.5%.

NOTE.--Because of rounding, details may not add to totals.

SOURCE: Metropolitan Life/Louis Harris Associates, Inc., The American Teacher, 1992, copyrighted. (This table was prepared May 1993.)


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