Should you become a public school teacher? This book will be an honest and helpful guide that will allow you to make that decision by giving you a realistic introduction to the profession. Do not be surprised by a dense school bureaucracy that seems unresponsive to its teachers and administrators. Pre-warned is pre-armed. Learn of the dependencies among administrators, students and teachers. Learn how to establish a positive and empowering attitude that can give you the rewards of teaching from the first day you enter the classroom and minimize any aggravation in sensing that you are swallowed up by the local educational bureaucracy that is unrelenting in its seeming attempts to stifle successful teaching. This book can help to establish confident and informed expectations for a public institution that deserves dedicated and idealistic workers, who have their feet firmly planted in the practice, love the profession, are excited about the subject material, find support from fellow teachers and enjoy teaching the student body that makes this job, for the right persons, second to none.