Pros
- Genuinely life-changing experiences with students
- Get to work with truly dedicated colleagues who value their profession and see this as their life's work.
- Friendly social environment
- Located in an area with lots of off-campus lunch options, including a grocery store across the street
- Entertaining and engaging activities daily
- Learn many applicable skills and subjects
- Many opportunities to meet people from different backgrounds
- Make meaningful connections with students beyond graduation
- See real effects of your efforts in student success
- Variety of training opportunities
- Diverse staff, with a work environment that supports inclusion and respect
Cons
- Severely overworked and under-compensated. You will likely be performing frequent off-contract and unpaid work, sometimes past hours. Work/life balance becomes nonexistent if you are good at your job.
- Improper safety protocols that endanger staff and students
- Poor morale all year long and in every department. The only solutions given are 3d printed fidget toys and condescending seminars explaining how to care more about your job.
- Very frequent nepotism hiring. Said individuals are often held to much lower standards of professionalism and rarely face meaningful repercussion of any kind for poor behavior
- Severely understaffed, with high turnover rate among both teachers and paraprofessionals
- Most hostile HR department I've ever worked for
- Sneaky contract, will likely write you out of defending yourself from any unjust action on the organization's part
- Dishonest and neglectful treatment of students for the sake of maintaining good-looking data and "compliance"
- Unprofessional expectations, particularly in regards to student boundaries and use of messaging platforms