As you have said that you are relocating.... Check very carefully the requirements to be certified for teaching in that state/county/municipality. I am in Massachusetts and teach Religious Education (A.K.A. Sunday School) that is not a certified for teaching position. I am in control of my presentations and classroom as the curricula are very broad and allow for a lot of creativity.
One of my fellow RE teachers is a full time teacher in the Public Schools, and can not wait to retire. It started out as an enjoyable profession, but has changed with all the legislation that has defined much of what may occur in the classroom. Here in Massachusetts we have the MCAS (Massachusetts Comprehensive Achievement Standard) tests. This has changed the classroom into teaching for the test. The curriculum is now oriented in a micromanaged way for the Holy Grail of the school's overall grade on the MCAS test. There is almost no room for creativity, or for enhancing the presentation of the subjects to the students.
My RE group is Kindergarten and Grade 1. The wee'ns have complained about the difficulty of exploring more on certain subjects in their Public School, because the time for each is so limited. BTW- I measure my success in how long the wee'ns want to stay in my classroom after the parents have come into the upstairs room for coffee hour. The most successful days are when the parents are through the fellowship upstairs and have to come downstairs and try to convince their child to leave. All of the parents have complimented me for giving the child something that they take home and practice. (religious principles). My kilted personality has won over all eighteen of the little ones, and thirty-six adults. One of the parents was startled the day I taught the class in trousers. (We had an outdoor project that would have made a mess of my kilt, and I really don't care what happens to a ten dollar pair of trousers from the thrift store (charity shop).)
RANT ON:
I for many years volunteered in the classroom at a school near my home, to enhance the teachers work in American history, mathematics, and environmental science. The new MCAS has made it impossible for the teachers to use me in the quest for the test.
These are my experiences as a real old man, who is not happy with the changes that are really in the long run dumbing down some of our future.
RANT OFF:
Slainte