Hi Kristina - as someone who has spent lots of years as a teacher, I am wondering if this is like a teacher's aide position here in Australia.

Where I worked (Catholic Education) teacher's aides training (scant, by the way), was paid for by the department. No out-of-pocket expenses at all. These people work often one-on-one with students with learning problems.

There was no private organization recruiting people.

Teacher's aides here in Australia are poorly paid, here in Australia, but there are lots of reasons why they are not so.

They are not qualified to actually teach.

They finish work at 3.30pm.

They have no yard duty.

No report writing.

No out-of-school responsibilities.

No preparation.

Some do a great job, but they don't enjoy any power over what they can and can't do.

I don't see any of them really enjoying their work, but that can be enhanced or otherwise, depending on the teachers they are required to work with.

There's another band of teachers called relief teachers. They must be up-to-date qualified, and must do courses to keep being employed, often from their own pockets.

From my perspective, neither of these is an enviable position. To explain myself I would probably have to write a blog post on the job.