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CATS Academy Boston Reviews

2.4

16% would recommend to a friend

(53 total reviews)
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Chris Angell

10% approve of CEO

13% positive business outlook

CATS Academy Boston has an employee rating of 2.4 out of 5 stars, based on 53 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an average working experience there. The CATS Academy Boston employee rating is 36% below average for employers within the Education industry (3.7 stars).

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53 reviews
1.0
22 Feb 2018

Don't WORK HERE

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Pros

free lunch and dinner. The cleaning staff are taking advantages of the tree meals

Cons

Wow, where to start! First and most formal, the school is definitely not living up to their own motto "preparing students for universities." Instead, we are accepting students who are high maintenance, spoiled, low motivated, bratty, and much more. We have about 350 students and roughly about 10% of that population care about their overpriced education. We spend more time complaining, disciplining, writing up, expelling students rather than educating and preparing them. The school decided to build a new dorm that is supposed to be ready in September (which took them less than a year to build it). However; the school is lacking all the necessary tools in order to keep the school functioning, you know like classroom spaces, teachers, staffs, resources, etc. We are losing staffs left and right, and I already talked to a couple of people who already decided not to renew their contracts for next year. It seems that the top people are getting more money for little to no effort of improving the school. The school is constantly reminding everyone that we are on a "tight budget" and that we don't have enough money for anything. But, they have no problem with overcharging the students whenever they are low on money. Instead, they want students to sign up for expensive, extravagant school trips to BU, UCLA, BC, and NYC that most can't get in. It seems the only way to get to the top of the school is not through hard work or qualifications, but instead through butt kissing and two facing. The school will literally hire anyone who has little to no experience with working with international students.

1.0
6 Aug 2016

The school is a sinking ship!

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Pros

Diverse students, teachers, and staff; metropolitan location; benefits and pay not bad

Cons

The working atmosphere is poised by infighting and nepotism. The senior administrators are poke-faced, disingenuous, and heavily biased. It brands itself as a boarding school, however, none of the senior administrators lives on campus. They rely on little people to manage the school but don't treat them with respect.

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Interim Head of School response: Both our Director of Residential Life and our Dean of Student Affairs live on campus and our senior administrators rotate every day after school and weekend responsibilities for the campus throughout the school year. Respect is a core value of our school and must be practiced in all interactions between all of our constituents.
1.0
21 Dec 2017

CATS Brings Out the Worst in People

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Pros

-Free lunch -Long vacation time (so long that curriculum is jam packed and learning takes a back seat)

Cons

-Incredibly disorganized and reactive -Untrustworthy and unsupportive administration mixed with a lot of ego -Unqualified teachers in most departments; most are not qualified to teach English language learners -Many teachers lack professionalism and they continue to get away with it -Most department heads lack real leadership, skills, and accountability; they also abuse their power -Most professional development is in-house and not useful or helpful -Disciplinary system and academic probation are ludicrous (it takes a lot to expel someone because the school doesn’t want to lose the money)

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