I taught Year 1 for five years. I loved teaching. I hated the environment — the behaviour incidents with no leadership support, the data targets that had nothing to do with the children in front of me, the part-time contract I worked full-time hours for.
When I went on maternity leave I made a decision. I wasn't going back. I built my tutoring business from my kitchen table while my baby slept. Four months later I had 60 children on my books. I paid my maternity pay back to school and never set foot in a classroom again.
Now I have 100 children per week, four employed qualified teachers and a purpose-built garden teaching room. I earn more than I did teaching. Within four months of starting I had 60 children on my books. Today I run 100 sessions a week with four employed teachers — earning more than double my teaching salary, working the hours I choose. I don't work Fridays. I pick my son up from school three times a week. I take holidays when I want to, not when school says I can.
If you want the full step-by-step, The Ultimate Teacher Exit Plan is the course I built from everything I learned doing it.
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