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| Percent of teachers agreeing or strongly agreeing with statement
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| Public school teachers | Private school teachers
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| |Elementary|Secondary|Combined| |Elementary|Secondary|Combined
| Total | schools | schools |schools | Total | schools | schools | schools
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1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9
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I usually look forward to each working | | | | | | | |
day at this school ....................| 91.8 | 92.7 | 90.3 | 91.6 | 96.2 | 96.8 | 94.1 | 96.2
Staff members in this school generally | | | | | | | |
do not have much school spirit ........| 31.6 | 26.6 | 39.5 | 34.7 | 16.5 | 15.5 | 20.7 | 15.7
This school's administration knows the | | | | | | | |
problems faced by staff ...............| 78.7 | 80.6 | 75.9 | 76.7 | 84.9 | 85.9 | 79.5 | 86.1
This school's teachers and administration| | | | | | | |
are in close agreement on school | | | | | | | |
discipline policy .....................| 72.2 | 75.5 | 67.2 | 71.1 | 85.2 | 85.7 | 78.2 | 87.7
Level of student misbehavior in this | | | | | | | |
school interferes with my teaching ....| 35.7 | 35.4 | 36.2 | 33.3 | 19.9 | 20.6 | 16.7 | 20.6
My principal enforces school rules for | | | | | | | |
student conduct and backs me up when I | | | | | | | |
need it ...............................| 86.8 | 87.7 | 85.5 | 85.8 | 92.0 | 91.0 | 89.2 | 94.1
Rules for student behavior are | | | | | | | |
consistently enforced by teachers in | | | | | | | |
this school, even for students who are | | | | | | | |
not in their classes ..................| 72.0 | 79.6 | 59.2 | 69.7 | 84.3 | 88.3 | 73.7 | 84.4
Attitudes and habits my students bring | | | | | | | |
to my class greatly reduce their | | | | | | | |
chances for academic success ..........| 59.2 | 56.2 | 64.3 | 61.3 | 29.7 | 27.1 | 33.6 | 30.9
Many of the students I teach are not | | | | | | | |
capable of learning the material I am | | | | | | | |
supposed to teach them ................| 24.8 | 24.1 | 25.5 | 29.6 | 9.4 | 8.8 | 13.0 | 8.6
My teaching assignments are more | | | | | | | |
difficult than those of other teachers | | | | | | | |
in this school ........................| 27.4 | 23.8 | 33.1 | 29.2 | 20.5 | 19.0 | 26.2 | 19.9
For me, the job of teaching has more | | | | | | | |
advantages than disadvantages .........| 91.8 | 92.0 | 91.7 | 92.0 | 95.0 | 95.8 | 94.1 | 94.5
If I had the chance to exchange my job | | | | | | | |
as a teacher for another kind of job, I| | | | | | | |
would .................................| 31.0 | 29.6 | 33.0 | 32.9 | 20.3 | 19.2 | 22.7 | 20.4
I plan with the librarian/media | | | | | | | |
specialist for the integration of | | | | | | | |
services into my teaching .............| 34.6 | 36.3 | 30.5 | 44.0 | 47.5 | 51.9 | 30.2 | 49.8
Library/media materials are adequate to | | | | | | | |
support instructional objectives ..... | 38.3 | 38.8 | 37.1 | 42.2 | 40.7 | 40.8 | 37.3 | 41.9
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