Pros
The kids are the only pro about this place.
Cons
If you’re looking for a school job where you’re treated well by the company and have a decent work/life balance avoid this job! First let me tell you, you have barely any days off to recharge. It took me 5 months to build ALMOST 1 day of PTO , I also came to the conclusion that the vacation days we build equal to only 1 week in the year, the only other vacation you get is the one week of Christmas . You work most holidays, you work during spring and winter break, theres no time to recharge. I tried to bring this to a higher up’s attention in person who then avoided me and I put it in a school survey requesting a ameeting on it and it was STILL avoided. No one cares how burnt out you are as long as they got kids enrolled for the money to flow, now that being said the lack of support. There’s such a lack of staff or even at times an over enrollment of kids which make it difficult when you are actually in Ratio. They claim they have enough staff and they don’t, there’s times we had to split to the kids and stay with our ratio number completely alone for the whole day. Even if it’s your ratio it’s a lot especially if you deal with the children who are in need of changing. The compensation is okay but not for the workload. I came from a school with similar issues thinking it was going to be better and it wasn’t. A lot of us teachers have cried, had mental break downs, and the amount of stress has caused us to leave. The higher ups even took away a day off just to change it for PD. If you’re in the Bronx locations also know your facility will be less catered to, of course being in a low income community, they cater less. The organization does not put their teacher’s first nor their students, if they put their students well beings first they would take better care for their staff and teachers knowing they’re the care takers and need to have a good mental health to attend to their kids and knowing the kids need consistency, not constant change of teachers.